Baltimore Police say the city has surpassed a grim benchmark, reaching 301 homicides so far this year.
The 300th and 301st homicides of 2016 were recorded after a shooting Tuesday night. Police say two men were found with gunshot wounds in northwest Baltimore and were taken to hospitals. One man died a short time later and police announced Wednesday that the second man died.
Last year, the city hit the 300 mark on Nov. 14. The city broke a 44-year record in 2015 with 344 homicides. The spike in violence followed civil unrest inspired by the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, a young African-American man whose neck was broken in a police van. Authorities attributed some violence to crimes related to prescription drugs stolen during rioting sparked by Gray’s case.
(AP)
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An overwhelmingly black city, with enormous amount of black on black crime, specializing in murder. Yet, their lives suddenly matter, when an upright law enforcement officer puts one out, following protocol.
If this is how they ptefer to continue living, or dying, then no matter the slogans, it’s the lives of those around them that really matter.