Toran Moore was 37 years old when he died on Monday, April 22, 2024, more than five years after he was stabbed inside a home in the 4200 block of Woodlea Avenue in Baltimore. The stabbing happened on Thursday, March 7, 2019, according to Baltimore Police. On Friday, November 22, 2024, the state Medical Examiner ruled that his death was a homicide caused by complications from the 2019 assault.
The Baltimore Police Department investigated, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists his death as a homicide by stabbing.
The few public facts about the case come from a short police summary recorded in the Sun's database. It says that Moore "died on April 22, 2024, after being stabbed in a home in the 4200 block of Woodlea Ave. on March 7, 2019," and that the Medical Examiner later ruled his death "a homicide caused by complications from the 2019 assault." The ruling came seven months after he died.
Almost nothing else about Toran Moore has entered the public record. No obituary, memorial page or family fundraiser that clearly refers to him could be found for this story, and no news outlet appears to have reported on his death or on the original stabbing in any detail. Online searches for his name turn up other people who share it, including a choreographer, but nothing that connects them to the man who died. He surely had family, friends or neighbors who remember who he was and what those last five years were like, but that has not been made public.
The record also leaves the basic circumstances of the 2019 attack unknown. It does not say who else was in the home that day, whether the stabbing followed an argument, a robbery or something else, whether he knew the person who hurt him, or whether investigators identified a suspect at the time. It does not say how badly he was injured, how his health changed over the following years, or what the complications were that the Medical Examiner tied to the assault. A delayed homicide ruling like this one can mean that a case first handled as an assault had to be looked at again, years after any witnesses last spoke with police.
Woodlea Avenue is a residential street of homes, listed in the Sun's database under the 21206 ZIP code. On a block of houses like this one, a stabbing inside a home would likely have brought an ambulance and police cars, which means someone living nearby in March 2019 may remember the response or later talk about what happened inside that home.
Homicides in Baltimore began falling steeply in 2023 and 2024, reaching the lowest totals in decades, yet many killings from those years remain unsolved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Toran Moore could be found in news archives or public records. More than two years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who was near the 4200 block of Woodlea Avenue in March 2019, or who knows who was in that home when Toran Moore was stabbed, may hold information that matters. 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).
