Artavious D Tub

Artavius Tubman, a 24-year-old Black man from Baltimore, was shot on a Monday night in December 2007 on the 6100 block of Boston Street in the O’Donnell Heights area. The violence unfolded fast and left little room for answers in the immediate aftermath—just the urgent scramble of getting him to help, the shock of a neighborhood jolted awake by gunfire, and the uneasy quiet that follows when people realize the worst has happened.

He was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, ...