McKenzie Elliott's Murderer Remains at Large, One Year Later

More than one year after 3-year-old McKenzie Elliott was gunned down in her north Baltimore neighborhood, her murderer is at large.

“Everyone was outside, so I know someone knows something,” Elliott’s mother told WBAL in a recent interview about her daughter’s murder on Aug. 1, 2014.

A year to the day of the killing, community members attended a vigil to remember McKenzie.

The 3-year-old girl was killed by a stray bullet outside her home in the 3600 block of Old York Road in Waverly, according to WJZ.

Witnesses said a vehicle driving up Old York Road stopped at East 36th Street when someone inside fired and shots were fired back, in the midst of which McKenzie was killed standing on her porch and two others were injured, The Baltimore Sun reported.

Baltimore was recently selected as one of a handful of cities to participate in a project through the U.S. Department of Justice to review how it handles homicide cases, due to its case closure rate, according to the Washington Times.

Members of the FBI and ATF arrived in Baltimore Monday to become embedded in the police department, working side-by-side with Baltimore Police detectives to increase the rate at which homicide cases are solved, The Baltimore Sun reported.

McKenzie was among five victims younger than 30 murdered last summer in the course of three days, according to Reuters, which said there are no suspects charged in four of the cases, including McKenzie’s.

There is an $8,000 reward for information about McKenzie’s murder, according to WBAL. Metro Crime Stoppers wants to increase the reward to $10,000, ABC 2 News reports.

There is an online donation drive for those who would like to contribute to the reward fund.

Anyone with information may contact the Baltimore City Homicide Section at 410-396-2100.

A sign was installed near McKenzie Elliott’s home in her memory in May 2015. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Janney.