It’s a cycle of violence in Baltimore City over the weekend that ensnared multiple teenagers.
A Saturday night start to Homecoming at Morgan State University was interrupted when an 18-year-old man was shot in the chest. He’s in stable condition at a local hospital.
Friday night more gunshots rang out in Southwest Baltimore in the 3100 block of West North Avenue. Police responded to a mass shooting that left seven hurt including four teens, the youngest was just 15-years-old and a 19-year-old was left in critical condition after police say someone opened fire on the block from a Silver Ford Explorer.
Kim Trueheart has been fighting on behalf of children in Baltimore City for decades, a city where young people are sometimes both the victims and the perpetrators.
“The drug dealers are winning, they’re out there promoting their illegal business activities and Baltimore City is losing,” said Trueheart.
In the aftermath of another bloody weekend, this time of the more than half a dozen teens gunned down they were all fortunate to be among the survivors.
270 people have killed so far this year, four more than the same time last year as the bloodshed continues its forward march.
Trureheart blames a lack of options and a deficit in investment in the city’s young people.