In the early morning hours of May 17, 2015, 20-year-old James L. H. Skinner was shot inside a home on Bryn Mawr Avenue in Salisbury, Maryland. Skinner had been staying at the residence with a family friend and her three teenage children for about two months. Shortly after 3:30 a.m., several people entered the house; investigators reported no signs of forced entry. A confrontation followed and Skinner was found by the homeowner lying in the entrance with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital and was pronounced dead; an autopsy confirmed the cause of death as a gunshot and the manner as homicide.

Maryland State Police Homicide Unit, Salisbury Police Department and the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office identified two suspects: 20-year-old Daequan White of Salisbury and 20-year-old Shaquan Wallace of Salisbury. White was charged with first-degree murder but his trial ended in a February 2016 mistrial. Wallace admitted to a witness that he was the shooter, pleaded guilty in April 2016 to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison with all but 50 years suspended, to run consecutively with a sentence he was already serving; he received no credit for time served.

If anyone knew James Skinner, was present at the Bryn Mawr Avenue house that night, or has information that could clarify the events leading up to the shooting, please come forward.