Brandon Holland was 28 years old when he was stabbed in the early hours of Sunday, December 20, 2015, in the 300 block of North Calvert Street in Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department investigated his death, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists it as a homicide. He was one of two young men who died from the same attack that night.
According to police accounts reported by WMAR, officers responded at about 1:50 that Sunday morning to an area hospital for a walk-in stabbing
victim. When they arrived, they found a 28-year-old man, identified as Brandon Holland of the 1000 block of Slater Avenue, "who had been stabbed multiple times." A short time later, 19-year-old Antwan Turner of the 600 block of Yorkshire Drive walked into the hospital with multiple stab wounds to his torso. Both men died from their injuries. FOX45 reported that Holland "also suffered multiple stab wounds to the torso and died at the hospital," and that investigators believed the two men had been stabbed in the 300 block of North Calvert Street, near Mercy Hospital.
Police did not publicly describe a motive, and no account in the record explains how the two men came to be together that night, whether they knew their attacker, or whether more than one person was involved. The Baltimore Sun noted at the time that the two men were the first people killed in the downtown area that year. Police asked anyone with information to call homicide detectives or Metro Crime Stoppers, but no later report of a suspect, an arrest or a charge appears in the saved coverage.
Beyond those few details, very little about Brandon Holland's life has been made public. No obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser for him could be confirmed for this story. Searches for his name are crowded with other men named Brandon Holland, including a sheriff's officer in Carroll County and people in other states, none of whom has any connection to this case. His family and friends surely remember who he was, but their memories have not entered the public record.
The 300 block of North Calvert Street sits on the edge of downtown Baltimore, near Mercy Medical Center and the Mount Vernon neighborhood. It is a busy corridor of offices, apartments, churches and courthouses by day, and much quieter in the hours after midnight. A stabbing there before 2 a.m. on a weekend may have been seen or heard by someone leaving a bar, a late shift or a nearby building, even if that person never came forward.
After the unrest of 2015, Baltimore recorded more than 300 homicides a year for eight straight years, and the share of killings that ended in an arrest fell sharply.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Brandon Holland could be found in news archives or public records. More than ten years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who was on or near North Calvert Street in the early morning hours of December 20, 2015, or who knows what led to the attack on Brandon Holland and Antwan Turner that weekend, may hold information that could still help. 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).
