Reginald Jr. Peay

Reginald Jr. Peay, 40, a Black man, spent Friday, June 10, 2016 in Baltimore, and by that evening his name was being spoken in the past tense. Just after 7:30 p.m., gunfire erupted in the 2500 block of Keyworth Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. When officers arrived, they found him suffering from gunshot wounds, and paramedics rushed him to Sinai Hospital, where he died from his injuries.

In the hours that followed, the scene on Keyworth Avenue became part of a rapidly unfolding homicide in ...