10 days in Baltimore and more crime tape goes up as more lives fall to city streets. In 10 days, 13 people have been shot and killed.
That is one picture of a city in crisis, but one west Baltimore City leader is offering the promise of another.
"We trying to wake this community up let them know hope is here and that they don’t have to live in despair," said Reverend Willie Ray.
Ray is head of S.A.Y. or Save Another Youth and was the organizer behind a free event Saturday.
There was food, entertainment and education all meant to rally a neighborhood, a city behind it's young people.
The antidote to city violence says Ray, is opportunity.
"What the people need is resources, we hope to bring some hope to those who are on the corners who don’t think that there is help," he said.
It was also a celebration of a 20-year-vacant building turned renovated rec center.
"Computers, literacy program, G.E.D., job counseling alcohol and drug counseling," said Ray.
It also includes sports activities, the kind of things Ray says attract young people to get them in the door and moving toward what he believes actually saves lives, education.
That opportunity says Ray says specifically put in a location where it’s needed most, 2822 Edmondson Avenue.
"Right smack in the hood and when you see the area you’ll see there’s drug proliferation on every damn corner," he said.
Its for the promise of another 10 days in the future that will be different than the last .
"This is gonna be a main headquarters for youth at-risk," he said.