Shawn Lamont Weaver

Shawn Lamont Weaver was a 17-year-old young man from West Baltimore. Available public records identify him by name, age and neighborhood; he lived in the area around McCulloh/Clifton Avenue. Though the public record is sparse about Shawn’s day-to-day life, these basic facts point to a life lived in a close-knit urban community at a moment when Baltimore’s neighborhoods were full of families, friends, and ordinary routines.

Shawn’s passing on March 21, 2007 cut short the years ahead of him. He was a teenager — still at the point in life where many people are building friendships, learning skills, and imagining futures. While formal notices, an obituary, or family-published memorials matching his name and exact date of death were not found in the public newspaper and funeral-home archives consulted, local homicide listings and contemporaneous compilations of Baltimore victims record his name, age, and the March 21, 2007 date. Those entries reflect the hard reality that each line in a homicide list represents a person with family, relationships, and hopes.

Because published personal tributes were not located in the sources available, this remembrance focuses on dignity and respect for Shawn as a young person from Baltimore whose life deserves to be acknowledged beyond the fact of his death. He was a son and a neighbor in West Baltimore: roles that carried everyday meaning and relationships not visible in public databases. Readers who knew Shawn — family members, friends, classmates, or neighbors — hold the fuller memories of his laughter, his voice, and the small acts that made him unique. Those private remembrances are the true record of who he was.

Shawn’s death is part of the larger story of a community grieving young people lost to violence. That context should never overshadow the fact that Shawn was a specific person whose life mattered. This page honors him by preserving his name and the verified details we can confirm publicly, and by inviting those who loved him to remember and, if they choose, to share their memories so his life can be remembered for more than the manner in which it ended.