Kevin Jones, 57, was stabbed in the 1200 block of West Ostend Street on Thursday, May 26, 2011, and died of his injuries. The Baltimore Police Department investigated his death, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists it as a homicide.
Beyond his name, his age and the block where he was found, almost nothing about Kevin Jones has been made public.
No obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser could be found for this story, and no news outlet appears to have reported on the death in detail. He surely had family, friends or neighbors who remember who he was, but none of that has entered the public record.
Because so little has been released, even the basic circumstances remain unknown to the public. The record does not say whether he was stabbed during a fight or a robbery, attacked by a stranger or by someone he knew, or hurt indoors or on the street. It does not say what time of day it happened, whether he died at the scene or later at a hospital, whether anyone saw what happened, or whether investigators ever identified a suspect.
Kevin Jones is one of the most common names in the country, and that has made his case even harder to trace. Searches for it in Baltimore turn up a longtime Baltimore police commander, doctors, coaches and a 22-year-old security guard named Kevin Jones who was shot to death at Pimlico Race Course in 2015, a different case that led to a conviction. None of those records concern the 57-year-old man who died on Ostend Street in 2011, and his own story has been buried beneath theirs. What little the public record holds about him comes down to a single line in a database: his name, his age, the block and the word stabbing. Behind that line was a man who had lived for more than five decades.
Ostend Street runs east and west through the southern part of the city. A stabbing on a city block, in late May, may well have been noticed by someone living nearby or passing through.
Baltimore recorded roughly 200 to 280 homicides a year between 2007 and 2014, one of the highest rates of any large American city, and many of those killings were never solved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Kevin Jones could be found in news archives or public records. More than 15 years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who lived on or near West Ostend Street in May 2011, or who knew a 57-year-old man named Kevin Jones from that area, may remember something that has never reached detectives. A friend, a neighbor, a relative or someone who simply heard a conversation could help give this man's death the attention it never received. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a vehicle seen nearby or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call Baltimore Police homicide detectives at 410-396-2100, or leave an anonymous tip with Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland at 1-866-7LOCKUP (1-866-756-2587).
