Michael Baker

Michael Baker

Status: HOMICIDE

City: Hollywood

State: Florida

County: Broward County

Date of birth: November 10, 1990

Date of death: July 20, 2013

Age: 22

Gender: Male

Race: African American/Black

Cause of death: Gun Firearm

Anniversary month: July

LEA: Hollywood Police Department, Hollywood, Florida

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March 17, 2025 | By: Summer Ramsay  This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and the University of North Florida’s Applied Journalism class. Michael Baker always extended help and care to all of those around him. He would give the clothes off his own back if it meant he could help one of his friends succeed. “One day he came home with no shoes on his feet,” said his mom, Tiffany Baker. “I asked him where they had gone, and he said he had given them to his friend so that he would be able to have work shoes for the day.” His friends have been without his generosity for over a decade now. In a case of being “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Tiffany, after attending a friend’s viewing, on July 20, 2013, at the young age of 22, Michael was found lying dead in front of a Hollywood, Florida home. Although details of that night are mostly... Read More



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