The mother and brother of a man killed outside a Woodlawn bar in September pleaded Wednesday for the public's help in solving the killing.
Donyue Faison, 22, was shot the night of Sept. 26 in the parking lot of B.J. Mallard's, a bar in the 1100 block of Ingleside Ave. The Catonsville resident was involved in an altercation inside the bar, but Baltimore County investigators believe the person who shot him outside was not involved in that dispute.
After months of investigation, detectives have not identified a suspect, said Cpl. John Wachter, a police spokesman.
During a news conference at county police headquarters in Towson, Faison's mother, Tyra Abrams, said she believes someone must have information that could help detectives because there were "too many people in that parking lot for no one to have seen anything."
"I can't move on with my life because someone took my baby away from me," Abrams said through tears, holding a framed portrait of her son. "Someone just needs to come forward. Give me some closure. Give my family some closure."
Faison left behind a 9-month-old daughter, Abrams said, and "she will never get to know who her father is."
"I have a daughter that's in college that doesn't want to come home because her brother's not there," Abrams said. "My heart is so broken."
Faison's brother, Edward Stokes, said Faison wasn't known to frequent the bar and that he was well-liked. Stokes wore a T-shirt dedicated to his brother's memory that bore pictures of family events, including a baby shower, a cookout and a Thanksgiving dinner.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-307-2020 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
"Somebody out there knows who did this," Wachter said.
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