Harold Martin, a 20-year-old Black man from Baltimore, was killed on the evening of November 19, 2013, after gunfire erupted along the 2400 block of Lauretta Avenue in West Baltimore. Police were dispatched to the block around 7:40 p.m. for reports of a shooting, and when officers arrived they found him wounded by multiple gunshots. He was rushed to a hospital, but the injuries proved fatal and he died shortly after.
In the hours that followed, homicide detectives took over the scene and began trying to piece together what had happened—who had been there, what sparked the violence, and where the shooter went when the shots stopped. Early accounts described the gunman as still at large, with few additional details released publicly at the time beyond the location and the basic timeline. Investigators appealed to the public for information as the case moved into the long, uncertain work of leads, interviews, and follow-up.
Public information about the killing remained thin in the immediate aftermath, and later compilations of Baltimore’s 2013 homicides noted Martin’s death on Lauretta Avenue while also lamenting how little reporting surfaced about the circumstances of his final moments. In the sources available for this synopsis, no suspect was identified by name, and no arrest, charging decision, trial, or conviction connected to Martin’s killing was described.
