Floyd Albert Jr. Dorsey was a 59-year-old Black man from Baltimore, Maryland, whose life ended in a burst of late-night violence on April 24, 2012.
That Tuesday night, he was sitting on a front porch in the 4100 block of Norfolk Avenue when gunfire erupted shortly after 10 p.m. The shots struck him there on the stoop, turning a familiar neighborhood setting into a crime scene in seconds. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, but he arrived unresponsive, and doctors later pronounced him dead.
As detectives worked the case, police appealed to the public for help identifying the shooter and released composite sketches tied to the investigation. The gunman was described as tall and appearing young, with brown skin, and was last seen wearing a light-colored skull cap or knit hat—details that suggest investigators were relying on someone’s memory from a chaotic moment in the dark.
Public reports from that period did not name a specific suspect or announce an arrest connected to the killing, leaving the case framed as a search for identification rather than a prosecution already underway. The official tone of the appeals—sketches circulated, a hotline shared, and repeated requests for tips—painted a picture of investigators trying to turn a fleeting glimpse into a name they could pursue.
In the days that followed, what remained were the hard facts of the scene—Norfolk Avenue, a porch, a narrow window of time—and a family left to bury someone who should have come home that night. Records indicate he was laid to rest at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery in Owings Mills.
