Shaquan Raymone Trusty

Shaquan Raymone Trusty was a 16-year-old young man from northwest Baltimore. Public records and contemporary news reporting place him as living on the 4300 block of Liberty Heights Avenue; on April 13, 2017, he was shot in the 4000 block of Norfolk Avenue and later pronounced dead at Sinai Hospital. Beyond these factual details, the public record is limited, but the basic facts point to a life still in its beginnings and a person known locally by family and neighbors.

Though few formal memorial notices authored by family were located in established funeral-home or obituary archives, news coverage from the time makes clear that Shaquan’s death was felt in the surrounding community. Residents responding to reporters recalled the shock of violence in a familiar neighborhood, and city reporting named him as a 16-year-old whose life was cut short that spring. Those reports also note that investigators recovered a firearm at the scene and that detectives were working to understand the circumstances—details included only to corroborate the public record, not to define who Shaquan was.

When public details about a young life are sparse, the loss itself remains clear: a family and community were left to grieve a teenage life interrupted. Shaquan’s age and neighborhood identify him as part of Baltimore’s next generation, with all the hopes and ordinary days that come with being 16—school, friends, family, and futures not yet lived. Though an official, family-published obituary matching the death date was not found in funeral-home archives available online, his passing is recorded in local news and memorial compilations that keep the names of those lost visible.

This remembrance holds to what is verifiable while honoring Shaquan’s humanity. He was a young man from northwest Baltimore whose life mattered to those who knew him; remembering his name is a small act toward acknowledging the human being behind the headlines and statistics.