Baltimore Family Holds Vigil To Remember Murder Victim One Year Later
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- A West Baltimore family spent Father's Day without their dad. He was gunned down on the same holiday, one year ago. His murder is still unsolved.
Kelly McPherson has the latest from a vigil in his honor.
It's been a year and there are still no leads in the murder of a father killed on Father's Day.
Family and friends gathered at the spot on Winchester Street where Daniel Payne was shot in the back a year ago.
"Father's Day last year when he went to go to the store, it was the last time I saw him. I never expected he wasn't going to come back," said Joyce Brodie, his widow.
Payne was murdered on a Sunday morning on his way to play the lottery. He served in the military and worked for a trash company. No one has been arrested in his murder.
"I'm not going to say I'm surprised because I know there's a lot of homicides in Baltimore City that haven't been solved. I just hope and pray this will be the exception," Brodie said.
One of his four children says his absence made this Father's Day difficult.
"Just tell who did it. It won't bring him back but I just want to know why, what they did it for," said Tiffany Payne.
Brodie said she planned this vigil in order to remember her husband but also to bring attention to this crime and she'll hold it every year until it's solved.
Anyone with information on this shooting can call police anonymously to help detectives.
