Alexander Monroe Murrell, a 64-year-old Black man, was killed in Baltimore, Maryland on November 25, 2009, his name joining the year’s running tally of lives lost to violence in the city.
That day, he was found in the 2400 block of Edmondson Avenue, a stretch of West Baltimore where traffic and storefronts give way to side streets and stoops, and where the smallest commotions can get swallowed by the usual noise of the neighborhood. Publicly available case lists place him at that location and date, but they do not preserve the scene in detail—only the blunt fact that he did not make it home.
Beyond the location and the date, the public record becomes quiet. No suspect is named in the sources that discuss him, and there is no publicly documented arrest tied to his killing in those listings. In the absence of a reported suspect or charging announcement, the case reads like so many others from that era—an abrupt end, a pinned address, and questions that linger long after the sirens fade.
A separate federal veterans memorial page confirms his identity and the date of his death, anchoring him not just as a statistic on a homicide roll but as a person with a documented life that reached beyond the corner where he was found. In the years since, the available public sources reviewed here do not reflect any trial, conviction, or official closure connected to his death.
