Dave Day was 47 years old when he was found fatally stabbed on Thursday, July 5, 2018, in the 1900 block of West North Avenue in Baltimore. The Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists his death as a homicide and records that he was found at about 12:38 a.m., in the first hour after the Fourth of July holiday. The Baltimore Police Department investigated the killing.
Beyond his name, his age and the block where he was found, almost nothing about Dave Day 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.
Even the few details that are public raise questions that have never been answered. The record does not say whether Dave Day 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 whether he died at the scene or later at a hospital, whether anyone saw what happened, or whether investigators ever identified a suspect. The late hour, just after a holiday night when many people were out, suggests there may have been people nearby, but no account of witnesses has been made public.
Dave Day is a common name, and searches for it are crowded with unrelated people: business owners, sports figures and men remembered in obituaries from other states. None of those results describes the Baltimore man who died in July 2018. A memorial list of Baltimore homicide victims for that year records only his name and age among the people killed that month. That scarcity makes anything remembered by the people who knew him especially important.
North Avenue is one of the city's great east-west roads, stretching across Baltimore from the west side to the east side and long serving as a dividing line between neighborhoods. The 1900 block of West North Avenue lies in West Baltimore, a stretch of rowhouses, corner stores, churches and bus stops along one of the busiest transit routes in the city.
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. Dave Day was one of the people killed in that period whose case drew almost no public attention.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Dave Day could be found in news archives or public records. More than eight years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Someone who was on West North Avenue late on the night of July 4, 2018, or in the early morning hours of July 5, or who knew Dave Day and heard talk of a dispute that summer, may hold the information detectives still need. 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).
