David Carter, a 20-year-old Black man, was killed in Baltimore, Maryland on December 8, 2010, his name entering the city’s running tally of lives lost that year as homicide number 208.
The record that publicly marks his death places it on the 2800 block of Westwood Avenue, a West Baltimore address that, on paper, becomes a final point on a long list—one line that hints at a scene investigators would have arrived to secure, neighbors left to piece together what they heard, and a
family suddenly forced to live with a date that won’t stop repeating itself on calendars.
In the sources reviewed, Carter’s case appears without the kind of addendum that sometimes follows other entries—no linked charging document, no named defendant, no court outcome attached beside his line. That absence suggests that, at least in the publicly compiled homicide listing used here, no suspect or arrest information was published alongside his death.
Years later, community reporting about Baltimore’s homicide victims has described how names are often gathered from multiple public-facing channels—researchers’ lists, news reports, and police releases—so that victims don’t disappear into statistics. But for David Carter’s death itself, the publicly available details located here remain sparse: a name, a date, a city block, and the quiet, unresolved space where answers would normally go.
