A night that began as a boisterous block party — a quasi-family reunion for current and former neighbors — became a sprawling crime scene for what likely was the largest mass shooting in Baltimore history.
left more than a dozen killed or wounded in Louisiana; five dead and two children injured in PhiladelphiaBut the mass shooting in South Baltimore poses a unique challenge to a city struggling with changes in law enforcement and stubborn violence.
Some Brooklyn residents, along with their City Council member, say a police presence would have been welcome. Officers were present in years past, they said, sometimes shutting down the party at the end of the night.The Baltimore Sun interviewed more than a dozen Brooklyn residents, listened to hours of police radio transmissions from Saturday evening into Sunday morning, and reviewed videos posted to social media from the event in order to parse what happened before and after the shooting.
Charlene Bowie, who lives at the intersection of Herndon and Gretna courts, said she saw police cars continuously pass by the block party. Dania Edwards, a 10-year resident of the housing complex, was one of several neighbors who said the longer the night went on, the more ominous things felt. She was worried that the book bags and fanny packs she saw several young people wearing could have guns.
By about 10:30 p.m., police requested a flyover from the city’s police helicopter, Foxtrot. Over the radio, someone instructs others that the crowd is about 900 to 1,000 people and to “stay back.” Police later recovered shell casings from more than a dozen guns from the scene, sources with knowledge of the investigation said.
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