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| type = Shooting
| fatalities = 2
| perpetrators = {{ubl|Elliot Knox{{efn|Early sources also wrote Knox's name as "Elliott".<ref name="Costello et al. 2021">{{Cite news |lastlast1=Costello |firstfirst1=Darcy |last2=Fenton |first2=Justin |author-link2=Justin Fenton |date=December 24, 2021 |title=Baltimore Officer Keona Holley dies one week after being shot in ambush |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/12/24/baltimore-officer-keona-holley-dies-one-week-after-being-shot-in-ambush/? |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240313172050/https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/12/24/baltimore-officer-keona-holley-dies-one-week-after-being-shot-in-ambush/ |archive-date=March 13, 2024 |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref><ref name="Fenton 2021">{{Cite news |last=Fenton |first=Justin |author-link=Justin Fenton |date=December 20, 2021 |title=Man charged with shooting Baltimore officer visited with family of second victim after killing, sister says |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/12/20/man-charged-with-shooting-baltimore-officer-visited-with-family-of-second-victim-after-killing-sister-says/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120094755/https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/12/20/man-charged-with-shooting-baltimore-officer-visited-with-family-of-second-victim-after-killing-sister-says/ |archive-date=January 20, 2024 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref><ref name="Fenton et al. 2021">{{Cite news |lastlast1=Fenton |firstfirst1=Justin |author-link=Justin Fenton |last2=Anderson |first2=Jessica |last3=Prudente |first3=Tim |date=December 17, 2021 |title=Two suspects charged in shooting of Baltimore Officer Holley; police say they also killed man later that morning |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-suspects-charged-holley-shooting-20211217-dz7ewl7w5nbxdfc5ci7affhi5a-story.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303100754/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-suspects-charged-holley-shooting-20211217-dz7ewl7w5nbxdfc5ci7affhi5a-story.html |archive-date=March 3, 2022 |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref>|name=Knox}}|Travon Shaw}}
| assailants =
| weapons = {{ubl|[[Glock 22]]|[[Armalite rifle|AR]]-style [[pistol]]}}
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== Background ==
[[File:Keona Holley.png|thumb|left|Keona Holley]]
'''Keona Holley''' (1981 or 1982{{snd}}December 23, 2021), also known as "KeKe" and the "Mom from the West Side",<ref name="Costello et al. 2021" /> worked her first job at a [[McDonald's]] in [[Baltimore County, Maryland|Baltimore County]] at the age of 16, before pursuing a healthcare career.<ref name="'That was KeKe': Baltimore Pol...">{{Cite news |last=Condon |first=Christine |date=January 9, 2022 |title='That was KeKe': Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley, fatally shot in her patrol car, remembered during viewing |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2022/01/09/that-was-keke-baltimore-police-officer-keona-holley-fatally-shot-in-her-patrol-car-remembered-during-viewing/? |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120093718/https://www.baltimoresun.com/2022/01/09/that-was-keke-baltimore-police-officer-keona-holley-fatally-shot-in-her-patrol-car-remembered-during-viewing/ |archive-date=January 20, 2024 |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref> She had been employed at the [[Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center]], a psychiatric hospital in [[Jessup, Maryland]],{{Efn||name=hospital}} before leaving in 2019 and joining the [[Baltimore Police Department]] (BPD) academy, claiming her motive for joining the department was bringing change to an embattled department, serving her second year as an officer at the time of the shooting.<ref name="Lu 2021">{{Cite news |last=Lu |first=Amy |date=December 24, 2021 |title=Police: Baltimore officer injured in ambush shooting dies |url=https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-police-officer-keona-holley-shot-dies/38549233 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003030717/https://www.wbaltv.com/article/baltimore-police-officer-keona-holley-shot-dies/38549233 |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |access-date=March 19, 2024 |work=[[WBAL-TV]]}}</ref> She attended [[Edmondson High School]] in southwestern Baltimore and had four children as well as one grandchild.<ref name="Lewis et al. 2021">{{Cite news |lastlast1=Louis |firstfirst1=Billy Jean |last2=Anderson |first2=Jessica |date=December 16, 2021 |title=Two years after joining Baltimore Police to make a difference, Officer Keona Holley is fighting for her life |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/12/16/two-years-after-joining-baltimore-police-to-make-a-difference-officer-keona-holley-is-fighting-for-her-life/? |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240309220630/https://www.baltimoresun.com/2021/12/16/two-years-after-joining-baltimore-police-to-make-a-difference-officer-keona-holley-is-fighting-for-her-life/ |archive-date=March 9, 2024 |access-date=March 17, 2024 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref><ref name="Mann et al. 2024" />
{{blockquote|I didn’t want to be a Baltimore police officer before. I feel like Baltimore city police officers have a bad name about themselves. We have to change that, and change it together. The community needs Baltimore city police officers that’s{{sic}} not just here for a paycheck. They’re here because they care.|Holley, 2020<ref name="Costello et al. 2021" /><ref name="Lewis et al. 2021" />}}
'''Justin Johnson''' was born in 1993 or 1994, the fourth of seven children. Johnson had five children, who were aged one to 18, at the time of his death.<ref name="Fenton 2021" /><ref name="Mann et al. 2024" />
'''Elliot M. Knox'''{{efn|name=Knox}} and '''Travon Shaw''', the two perpetrators, were both born in 1989 or 1990.<ref name="Mann et al. 2024">{{Cite news |lastlast1=Mann |firstfirst1=Alex |last2=Mullan |first2=Dillon |last3=Costello |first3=Darcy |date=March 6, 2024 |title=Baltimore jury finds man guilty of murder in killings of Officer Keona Holley, second victim |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/06/keona-holley-verdict-elliot-knox-murder-trial/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240320014512/https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/06/keona-holley-verdict-elliot-knox-murder-trial/ |archive-date=March 20, 2024 |access-date=March 6, 2024 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]}}</ref> At the time of the murder, Shaw was set to go on trial, in March 2022, on a March 2020 firearms charge in [[Baltimore County, Maryland|Baltimore County]], being convicted of assault and armed robbery in 2006. In the same year, Knox, who was then 16 years old, was convicted of three armed robberies and sentenced to 15 years in prison. While serving his sentence at the [[North Branch Correctional Institution]], Knox sued the state of Maryland as well as corrections officers, claiming he was assaulted in prison. According to records, the case was [[settlement outside of court|settled outside of court]], although the terms of the settlement are unknown.<ref name="Fenton 2021" /><ref name="Fenton et al. 2021" />
== Shootings ==
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