Richard Luther Redd, a 66-year-old Black man, was killed in Baltimore, Maryland, on the night of November 16, 2012. He was walking along the 3000 block of Elgin Avenue when an unknown assailant approached and opened fire, turning an ordinary stretch of sidewalk into a sudden, violent scene.
Police arrived within minutes, but the gunfire had already done its work. Officers found him suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, and paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene at about 10:15 p.m. Homicide detectives opened an investigation and urged anyone who knew anything—no matter how small—to come forward.
Publicly available reporting from that time describes the shooter only as “unknown,” and the accounts that remain accessible do not identify a motive, a suspect, or any arrests tied to the killing. A later-running public homicide-victim list that includes the same date, location block, and name provides no perpetrator information for this case, reinforcing that no charged suspect information was attached there.
In the days and years after, the details of Richard Luther Redd’s life appear more clearly in memorial records than in the fragments left behind by the investigation. A burial listing places him at Baltimore National Cemetery and confirms the same date of death, a quiet, formal resting place that contrasts sharply with the street-corner violence that ended his life.
