Oz Shiheed Tatum

Oz Shiheed Tatum was a 21-year-old young man from Baltimore whose life touched people in his neighborhood and community. Public records and community remembrances identify him by name and age and place him among the city’s lost youth on May 28, 2020. While the public record about Oz focuses largely on the tragic circumstances of his death, the available memorial listings and community posts make clear that he was known as a real person — someone with friends, family ties, and a place in the daily life of his city.

Community memorials and local listings that record Baltimore’s victims of gun violence include Oz’s name and age, showing that his passing was noted by neighbors and organizations that honor those lost. Those listings place him alongside friends and fellow Baltimoreans who remain in the memories of families and local groups. Though formal published obituary or funeral-home notices matching his exact name and date of death were not found in the public obituary archives we checked, community grief and remembrance for Oz are visible in local memorial projects and pages that work to keep names and stories from being forgotten.

Because public biographical detail about Oz beyond his name, age, and the date he died is limited in reliable, family-authorized sources available online, this remembrance honors what is known without inventing personal details. Oz was a young Black man from Baltimore whose life had meaning to people around him; the brevity of the public record should not diminish that fact. Those who loved him — family, friends, and neighbors — carry his memory. This page is dedicated to acknowledging Oz Shiheed Tatum as a person whose life, though cut short, mattered deeply to those who knew him and to the wider community that remembers him.