Murder rate in Baltimore MD (Aug. 5th - Oct. 29th) 293 murders this year

Because of last week's holiday, Murder Ink ran online only. It is published in this week's paper along with this week's Murder Ink.
Monday, Aug. 28
9:48 p.m. Carlos Jones, a 27-year-old African-American man, was near the intersection of Mount Pleasant and S. Highland avenues when someone shot him more than once. Police and medics found him there. He was sent to a Johns Hopkins Bayview and homicide detectives were called. Jones died on Aug. 30. He resided on the 2600 block of Springhill Avenue. Detectives are looking for clues.
On June 1, Christopher Lessane, a 48-year-old African-American man, was near the intersection of East Monument and North Port streets when someone bashed his head in. Medics found him on the sidewalk and rushed him to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was listed in grave condition before transferring to Gilchrist Hospital, where he lingered for six weeks. On July 19, Lessane died, and his body was taken to the medical examiner for autopsy. On Aug. 28, the death was ruled a homicide by blunt force trauma.



Wednesday, Aug. 30
1:57 p.m. Troy Gladney, a 40-year-old African-American man, was on the 800 block of N. Woodington Road in the Rognel Heights neighborhood when someone shot him. He died. Gladney had resided on the 700 block of Kevin Road, around the corner from where he was killed.
7:41 p.m. Nakim Turner, a 25-year-old African-American man, and Vaughn Riley, a 27-year-old African-American man, were on the 500 block of Richwood Avenue when someone shot them both. They both died at a hospital. Police say Turner lived on the 1000 block of Ramblewood Road and Riley on the 4700 block of Midwood Avenue, which is about five blocks from where he was shot.
Saturday, Sept. 2
6:08 p.m. Vasunlala Irvin, a 41-year-old African-American man, was on the 1200 block of E. Lafayette Avenue, in the Oliver neighborhood, when someone shot him and a 50-year-old man he was with. The 50-year-old, shot in both legs, survived. Irvin died shortly after arriving at Shock Trauma. He had resided on the 3100 block of Sequoia Avenue.
9:15 p.m. Antoine Rich, a 46-year-old African-American man, was on the 3400 block of Harmony Court when someone shot him. He died at Shock Trauma. Police say Rich lived in the county. He was mentioned in numerous City Paper articles in the mid-2000s, when he was convicted and sentenced to 87 months in prison as part of a drug dealing crew federal law enforcers dubbed the Rice Organization.
Sunday, Sept. 3
10:25 a.m. After being flagged down by a citizen, police found George Yurek, a 52-year-old Caucasian man, bleeding from the head in an alley off the 1000 block of Brentwood Avenue in the Johnston Square neighborhood. Yurek told the officers that he had been assaulted by an unknown African-American man the night before. He died shortly after at Johns Hopkins Hospital. An autopsy ruled his death a homicide by blunt force trauma. Yurek had lived on the 1900 block of E. Pratt Street, in the Upper Fells Point neighborhood.
Monday, Sept. 4
12:30 p.m. Tyrone Ray, a 22-year-old African-American man, was talking to two other men on the 4200 block of Nicholas Avenue in Belair Edison when they shot him multiple times and fled in a white vehicle. Ray had resided on the 2700 block of Bayonne Avenue and was the grandson of longtime state delegate and majority whip Talmadge Branch.
3:15 p.m. Juwan Gladney, a 25-year-old African-American man, was at a home on the 1400 block of E. Oliver Street when someone stabbed him in the stomach. He died soon after at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police say a domestic dispute escalated into violence, and that a 51-year-old man was also stabbed in the chest. He walked to the hospital and was listed in stable condition. Police arrested 43-year-old Dante Gladney and charged him with murder and attempted murder.
10:20 p.m. Joshua Bayne, a 24-year-old African-American man, was shot on the 1800 block of E. Lafayette Avenue, in the Broadway East neighborhood. Police found him bleeding on the ground. Medics found a loaded handgun in his waistband and turned it over to the police. This was the ninth murder in the Broadway East neighborhood this year.
11:40 p.m. Sheldon Chase, a 36-year-old African-American man, was on the 1600 block of Patterson Park Avenue, where he resided, when someone shot him in the elbow and torso. He died a couple hours later at Johns Hopkins Hospital. His was the 10th murder in the Broadway East neighborhood in 2017. Last year there were six.
Wednesday, Sept. 6
5:20 a.m. Police were called to the 4200 block of Audrey Avenue in Brooklyn for a report of a body in an alley. There they found Theodore Pigford, a 26-year-old African-American man. He was dead from several gunshots to his torso. Pigford, who lived on the 2100 block of Alice Avenue in Oxon Hill, was better-known as 30 Glizzy, an associate of the rapper Shy Glizzy.
Friday, Sept. 8
Kevin Nixon, a 36-year-old African-American man who had been shot in the neck on July 7 on the 3200 block of Spaulding Avenue, died from that injury. A police officer was patrolling on the 5100 block of Park Heights Avenue at 10:28 p.m. when he heard gunfire. He found Nixon, bleeding from the neck, on the 3200 block of Spaulding Avenue. A 30-year-old man walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound to his thigh, which police believe stemmed from the same incident.
UPDATES
Police arrested Demetric Green, a 23-year-old African-American man, and charged him with the Aug. 21 murder of 54-year-old Keith Davis. Police were called to the 2400 block of Cottage Avenue at 9:30 a.m. that day and found three shooting victims. A fourth one walked into a hospital later. Police say Green walked onto the block and started shooting. He is charged with murder, reckless endangerment, and related charges. Green was charged with carjacking last June and those charges were dropped in December. In 2014, he was charged with carrying a stolen gun in a vehicle. He has also faced drug and burglary charges. He was a plaintiff in a lead pant case that was settled in March of 2016.
Murders these past two weeks: 14
Murders this year: 244
This week's Murder Ink covers the past two weeks of murders. There were 27 murders in the past 30 days. Police continue to seize illegal guns and arrest people, and shootings continue anyway: 15 people within the last week shot non-fatally. Federal agents closed four city murder cases, revealed in an indictment that was quietly unsealed in June. Police closed two others by arrest.
Saturday, Aug. 5
An autopsy performed on Antonio Littlejohn, a 55-year-old African-American man who died on July 31, determined that he died because he had been shot back on October 18, 1991, in the unit block of N. Vincent Street. Police say the homicide case was opened and closed this year because the suspect, Lawrence Fleet, was himself murdered in 1991. Littlejohn is added to this week's murder list because police notified the public of the case this week.
Monday, Sept. 11








7:07 p.m. Ricardo Lyles, a 39-year-old African-American man, was near his home on the 300 block of S. Fulton Avenue when someone shot him more than once. Medics took him to Shock Trauma, where he was pronounced dead. His was the sixth homicide in the Carrollton Ridge neighborhood so far this year. Last year there were four. In 2015: two.
Wednesday, Sept. 13
1:09 a.m. Daivon Evans, a 32-year-old African-American man, was on the 600 block of Poplar Grove Street, a block from his home, when he was attacked and beaten by several males wielding what police called "a blunt force object." He staggered toward home and collapsed on the grass on the 700 block of Poplar Grove, where police and medics found him. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.
9 a.m. Police called to the rear of the East Coast Greenway, the access road that runs in front of Port Discovery about a block from police headquarters, found Jessica Gibson, a 35-year-old Caucasian woman who had no fixed address, dead behind some large shipping pallets. She had "trauma to her body," according to police; the medical examiner has ruled her death a homicide. On September 18, police announced they had arrested James House, an 18-year-old African-American man, and charged him with the murder. They say House confessed.
Saturday, Sept. 16
5:32 p.m. Shawn Armstrong, a 31-year-old African-American man, was on the 2700 block of Boarman Avenue, with another man the same age, when both were shot multiple times. They made it to a hospital, where one man, shot in both legs, was expected to survive. Armstrong, of the 2800 block of W. Coldspring Lane, was hit in the body, and died. He was the eighth person killed in the Central Park Heights neighborhood this year. Last year there were six. In 2015: six.
Sunday, Sept. 17
2:18 p.m. Branston Lewis, a 32-year-old African-American man, was on the 1400 block of Mount Street when someone shot him. He died. He was the eighth person killed in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood this year so far. Last year there were eight. In 2015 there were 14 murders there.
Tuesday, Sept. 19
5:50 p.m. Rahine Doughtry, a 43-year-old African-American man, was on the 200 block of N. Bond Street, around the corner from his residence on May Court, when someone shot him in the chest and ran away. Two associates rushed him to a hospital as police converged on the scene, but Doughtry was dead. His was the third murder in the Dunbar-Broadway neighborhood this year.
8:03 p.m. Darnell Rice, a 30-year-old African-American man, was on the 1900 block of Maryland Avenue when someone shot him. He died at Maryland Shock Trauma. He had resided on the 2100 block of Riding Crop Way.
Thursday, Sept. 21
7:15 a.m. Robert Bridgeman, a 27-year-old Caucasian man, was on the 1400 block of Darley Avenue when someone shot him multiple times in the chest and stomach. He died. Police say witnesses reported hearing shots but saw nothing. Bridgeman had lived on the 3200 block of Joppa Road.
Friday, Sept. 22
11:15 p.m. Kevin Bailey, a 43-year-old African-American man, was on the 4300 block of Reisterstown Road when someone shot him in the chest. Police patrolling nearby heard several shots and rushed to the scene. Medics got Bailey to a hospital but he was gone. Police believe he was shot in a robbery attempt.
Saturday, Sept. 23
2 a.m. Earnest Brown, a 48-year-old African-American man, was on the 500 block of N. Curley Street when someone shot him in the torso. He died shortly thereafter at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police have no witnesses or motive. They say Brown lived on the 400 block of N. Clinton Street, about six blocks across Ellwood Avenue Park. His was the third homicide in the Ellwood Park neighborhood this year.
5:25 a.m. Michael Cudnik Jr., a 22-year-old Caucasian man, was on the 1900 block of Griffis Avenue in Morrell Park when someone shot him in the head. Cudnik lived on the 3300 block of James Street.
6:40 a.m. Jeima Bell, a 29-year-old African-American man, was near his home on the 2400 block of Etting Street in Penn North when someone shot him in the chest. He died soon after at Shock Trauma. He was the fifth person murdered in Penn North so far this year.
Monday, Sept. 25
8:16 a.m. A man who police have not yet identified publicly was found in the rear of the 6100 block of Shipview Way in O'Donnell Heights. He was dead, with "signs of trauma." He was the third person murdered in O'Donnell Heights this year. Last year there was one. In 2015: 0.
Updates
Police announced they arrested Sean Morris, a 28-year-old African-American man, on the 400 block of Font Hill Avenue and charged him with the Aug. 30 murder of Troy Gladney, a 40-year-old African-American man, on the 700 block of Kevin Road.
On Sept. 23, a BPD warrant squad and SWAT team arrested Eric Jones, a 52-year-old African-American man, on the 900 block of N. Eutaw Street. Jones was charged with the Sept. 3 murder of George Yurek, a 52-year-old Caucasian man who police found with massive head trauma in an alley on the 1000 block of Brentwood Avenue. Yurek told police he had been beaten the night before, then died. Jones was also wanted on warrants for first degree assault and failing to register as a sex offender.
According to a second superseding indictment in the federal case against the Murdaland Mafia Piru gang, a Bloods set based in Northwest Baltimore, the gang's boss, Dante Bailey (aka "Gutta") murdered Murdaland Mafia Piru member James Edwards, aka "Bangout," using the same .40 caliber firearm he had discharged at the BP gas station a few days before, shooting at three men who were pumping gas.
In the same federal indictment against Dante Bailey and members of the Murdaland Mafia Piru Bloods set, prosecutors say fellow gang member Dontray Johnson killed Brian Johnson, AKA "Nutty B," because Brian refused to pay gang dues.
In the indictment, prosecutors also allege that Bailey and fellow gang member Jamal Lockley killed Anthony Hornes, a 34-year-old African-American man, on April 28, 2016, because they falsely believed he was responsible for the murder of Maurice "Mookie" Braham.
Federal prosecutors also allege that Bailey "directed the murder of Ricardo Johnson based on the belief that he was cooperating with law enforcement. On or about August 10, 2016, Sydni Frazier and one or more co-conspirators abducted, bound, and murdered Johnson, and then attempted to set his body on fire. Later that day, Frazier fled from police and discarded two murder weapons—a Smith & Wesson 9mm . . . and a Taurus 9mm" handgun.
Murders these past two weeks: 14
Murders this year: 258
A 9-year-old girl was shot in the foot in a crossfire on the 1000 block of Slater Road. Four people were shot and two were killed on the 3200 block of Lyndale Avenue. In Cherry Hill, cops captured an 18-year-old man, disguised in a wig and a dress, carrying a rifle with a drum magazine, plus another gun which was found in his car. In Upton, two men were killed less than three days and two blocks apart. In the month of September, 30 Baltimoreans were murdered.
Saturday, Sept. 23
8 a.m. Michael Blevins, a 24-year-old Caucasian man with no fixed address, was on the 700 block of Newington Avenue when someone shot him multiple times. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition, and he died the next day. Police publicized the death several days later, so Blevins' murder is listed in this week's Murder Ink.
Monday, Sept. 25
2:30 p.m. A patrol officer found Sean White, a 23-year-old African-American man, in the rear of the 1100 block of 20th Street. He had been shot multiple times in the body and had died. He is the third person killed in the East Baltimore Midway neighborhood this year. On June 13, a man and a woman were shot to death on the 1200 block of Bonaparte Avenue.
7:54 p.m. Gerry Hall, a 46-year-old African-American man, was on the 2400 block of Barclay Street when someone shot him multiple times. Medics got him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Hall resided on the 2000 block of Kennedy Avenue.
Tuesday, Sept. 26
10:15 p.m. Someone shot four people on the 3200 block of Lyndale Avenue. A patrol officer heard the shots and rushed to the scene, where she found a 26-year-old man shot in the abdomen and a 25-year-old man shot in the leg, both of whom were expected to survive. Angelo West, a 42-year-old African-American man of the 4700 block of Hampnett Avenue, and Charles Hamilton, a 39-year-old African-American man of the 1300 block of Canberra Drive, were both shot multiple times, and were both dead. They were the first people murdered this year in the Four By Four neighborhood.
Wednesday, Sept. 27
9:35 p.m. Kenneth Burton, a 27-year-old African-American man, was on the 2300 block of W. Lafayette Avenue in the Bridgeview/Greenlawn neighborhood, when someone shot him more than once. Medics took him to Shock Trauma, where he died. Burton had lived on the 2400 block of Loretta Avenue, which is about seven blocks from where he was murdered.
Friday, Sept. 29
8:32 p.m. Anton Carter, a 39-year-old African-American man, was on the 1100 block of Myrtle Avenue in the Upton neighborhood when someone shot him more than once. He died soon after in a hospital. He had resided on the 600 block of Denison Street.
Saturday, Sept. 30
6:29 a.m. Police responded to a house on the 2900 block of Harview Avenue to find two men shot. Bernard Mackey, a 51-year-old African-American man, was shot in the head. He died soon after. The other man, age 57, was hit in the shoulder and is expected to survive. Police say that man was uncooperative with investigators and that the murder may have been related to a domestic dispute.
Sunday, Oct. 1
2:37 a.m. Devante Wright-Felder, a 24-year-old African-American man, was on the 5100 block of Goodnow Road in Frankford when someone shot him in the head. He died soon after at a hospital. Wright-Felder lived in Catonsville on the 6600 block of Frederick Road, according to police.
2:15 p.m. Larry Brown, an 18-year-old African-American man, was on the 3800 block of Norfolk Avenue when someone shot him in the chest. Police responding to the call were flagged down by citizens in a vehicle who said they were taking Brown to a hospital. Officers followed that vehicle to the hospital, where Brown died.
Monday, Oct. 2
12:30 a.m. A 24-year-old man who police have not yet identified publicly was on the 3300 block of Westerwald Avenue in Waverly when two masked men approached with guns, announced a robbery, and shot him. Medics got the man to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
8:24 a.m. A 24-year-old man who police have not yet identified publicly was on the 1300 block of Myrtle Avenue, two blocks from where Anton Carter was killed three days before, when someone shot him in the head. The 24-year-old man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Update
Police identified the person who was killed on the 6100 block of Shipview Way on Sept. 25 as Kevin Crockett, an 18-year-old African-American man, of the 400 block of Poplar Grove Street.
A comparatively light week for killings should not mask that 18 other people were shot non-fatally, including three double-shootings.
Monday, Oct. 2
On Sept. 28 at about 8 p.m., Leonard Carolina, a 40-year-old African-American man, was near the intersection of Poplar Grove and Riggs Avenue in the Winchester neighborhood when someone stabbed him. Medics got Carolina to a hospital, but he died on Oct. 2.
Tuesday, Oct. 3
2:07 p.m. Robert Breen, a 68-year-old Caucasian man, was in his home on the 5500 block of Summerfield Avenue when he got into a dispute with a man he knew, who shot him in the face. Breen died. Police say the shooter was Joseph Masilek, a 45-year-old Caucasian man, who resided in New Windsor, Maryland. They initiated a manhunt and later found him dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Wednesday, Oct. 4
10:30 a.m. Dontais Gaines, a 40-year-old African-American man, was in his home on the 1300 block of Fayette Street in the Franklin Square neighborhood when someone shot him to death. Police and medics found him there.
Thursday, Oct. 5
9:06 p.m. Malik Michael Perry, a 19-year-old African-American man, was with another 19-year-old man on the 600 block of Pitcher Street in Upton when someone shot them both. Perry, of the 1300 block of N. Carey Street, died soon after at a hospital.
Saturday, Oct. 7
10:30 a.m. Police called to the 2000 block of East Biddle Street found Kenneth Bunch, a 27-year-old African-American man, man inside a vacant house, dead, with trauma to his body.
Updates
Police have identified the person who was murdered on Oct. 1 on the 3300 block of Westerwald Avenue as Bruce Williams, a 24-year-old African-American man, of the 5400 block of Cedonia Avenue. They have also identified the person killed on Oct. 1 on the 1300 block of Myrtle Avenue as Daniel Brinkley, a 24-year-old African-American man who lived on the 1700 block of N. Fulton Avenue.
Police issued an arrest warrant for Raekwon Thornton, a 19-year-old African-American man, in the Sept. 4 shooting death of Tyrone Ray, a 22-year-old African-American man, on the 4200 block of Nicholas Avenue. Ray was the grandson of State House Majority Whip Talmadge Branch.
This week: 5
This year: 275
After a light week we're back to over one homicide per day. Baltimore has averaged about eight per week lately; the rate of killings is increasing despite city officials' efforts. Another of the four men shot on the 3200 block of Lyndale Avenue during the Sept. 26 mass shooting (the city's sixth this year) has died. Last week saw another shooting three blocks up the street. That victim was listed in serious condition.
Tuesday, Oct. 10
12:21 a.m. Dandre McLaughlin, a 19-year-old African-American man, was in a vehicle on the 900 block of N. Monroe Street when someone shot him in the head. Medics rushed him to a hospital, where he died soon after. McLaughlin made his home on the 2600 block of Cold Spring Lane.
9:07 p.m. Someone shot two people on the 600 block of Pontiac Avenue in Brooklyn. Police found one victim, a man who they have not yet identified publicly, on the ground. He died soon after at a hospital. The second victim got to the hospital on their own and is expected to survive.


10:04 p.m. James Steadman IV, a 26-year-old African-American man who was one of four men shot on the 3200 block of Lyndale Avenue on Sept. 26, died on Oct. 10, becoming the third homicide victim of that incident. A police officer patrolling nearby heard the shots and discovered two men already dead. Medics got the other two to a hospital. Steadman lived on the 6000 block of Belle Vista Avenue.
Friday, Oct. 13
3:53 a.m. Anthony Foster, a 31-year-old African-American man, was on the 2200 block of Germania Avenue in the Darley Park neighborhood when someone shot him in the head. Police patrolling the Eastern District heard the shot, and found Foster, who was pronounced dead shortly thereafter at a hospital. Foster had resided on the 1400 block of Montpelier Street, about 13 blocks from where he was murdered.
1:30 p.m. Daryl Singletary, a 43-year-old African-American man whose name is also spelled "Darrell" and "Singleterry" in public records, was on the 900 block of Eden Street when someone shot him in the upper body. He died. Police found him on the 1400 block of Ashland Avenue.
2:13 p.m. Christopher Yancey, a 33-year-old African-American man, was at Johns Hopkins Hospital on the 1800 block of Orleans Street with his partner, Anita Jones, age 30, waiting for their son, who was there for a medical procedure. According to police, the two argued, and then Jones came out of the room, told someone on staff that Yancey had cut himself, and left the building. Police found Yancey dying from stab wounds. They arrested Jones for murder.
Sunday, Oct. 15
8:23 a.m. Donald Rouse, a 43-year-old African-American man, was home on the 2500 block of Aisquith Street when someone shot him more than once. He died soon after at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
9:55 p.m. Terrill Kennedy, a 29-year-old African-American man, was home on the 5200 block of Cuthbert Avenue in Arlington when someone shot him. A city cop heard the shot and found him, unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at Sinai Hospital shortly thereafter.
Updates
On Oct. 3, Baltimore homicide detectives arrested Tyrone White, a 34-year-old African-American man, and charged him with the murder the day before of Daniel Brinkley, a 24-year-old African-American man, on the 1300 block of Myrtle Avenue.
This week: 8
This year: 282
This week's low murder count is luck. There were 23 non-fatal shootings, including four double-shootings. Police arrested four people with handguns, and charged four people, including two women, with shootings. Keith Davis Jr. was convicted of murdering Kevin Jones.
Tuesday, Oct. 17
7:37 p.m. Demetrius Mitchell, a 21-year-old African-American man, was on the 1600 block of Aisquith Street on Oct. 10 when someone shot him in the neck. Police heard the shots but did not see any witnesses. Mitchell was hospitalized and lived seven more days before succumbing to his injury on Oct. 17.
7:53 p.m. A 44-year-old man, who police have not yet identified publicly, was on the 2400 block of Barclay Street when someone shot him and a 29-year-old man. The 44-year-old died at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Saturday, July 22
1:10 a.m. On July 22, Edralin Montebon, a 34-year-old Asian-American man, was on his way home from a night out on the unit block of E. Cross Street when someone assaulted him. He collapsed to the pavement and was later discovered to have had a brain aneurysm. Police believe he knew the people who hit him, but have not yet identified them despite video of the altercation. Montebon died on July 25, but police did not classify his death as a homicide until this week, and so he is added to the list.
Update:
A jury convicted Keith Davis Jr. of the murdering Kevin Jones, a 22-year-old African-American man who was shot just before 5 a.m. as he was heading to work as a security guard on June 7, 2015. Later that day, police shot Davis, after he hid in a garage allegedly after trying to rob a hack cabbie. The case became a cause célèbre for local activists; Davis claimed he had been minding his own business, unarmed and listening to headphones, when police rushed him. The gun they recovered in the garage had Davis' palm print on it though, and a ballistics expert claimed it was the gun used to kill Jones. Before he was charged with Jones' murder, a Baltimore jury acquitted Davis of robbery, but convicted him of illegally having the gun (prior criminal convictions bar him from possessing a firearm). He is serving a five year sentence for that, and now faces much more time for the murder.
This week: 3
The carnage continues. 70% of the annual deaths in Baltimore Maryland are African-American
Tuesday, Oct. 24 
2:22 p.m. Kendel Lecompte, a 27-year-old African-American man, was on the 1000 block of W. North Avenue in Reservoir Hill, when someone shot him. He died soon after at Shock Trauma. Lecompte had lived on the 5100 block of Chalgrove Avenue. 
4:43 p.m. Antwan Bond, a 26-year-old African-American man, was on the 3100 block of Wylie Avenue in the Central Park Heights neighborhood when someone shot him. Police found him and medics brought him to Sinai Hospital, where he died. Police give Bond's address as the 2600 block of W. Cold Spring Lane.
Wednesday, Oct. 25
Thomas Chambers, a 49-year-old African-American man rendered quadriplegic by gunfire on the 1600 block of E. Eager Street on August 22, 1990, died on Aug. 10 of this year. This week the Medical Examiner's Office ruled his death was the result of the 27-year-old shooting, and so Chambers, of the unit block of S. Athol Street, is added to this week's homicide list.
Thursday, Oct. 26 
3:44 p.m. Elijah Johnson, a 31-year-old African-American man, was near the intersection of Belwood and Benton Heights avenues in the Waltherson neighborhood when someone shot him. Medics took him to Bayview Hospital, where he died. Johnson had resided on the 5400 block of Belle Vista Avenue.
Friday, Oct. 27
11:00 p.m. Reginald Jefferson, a 29-year-old African-American man, was working as a security guard on the 1500 block of Eutaw Place when someone shot him. Another security guard flagged down a police officer, and medics pronounced Jefferson dead.
11:18 p.m. Melvin Ford, a 35-year-old African-American man, was driving on the 2500 block of Greenmount Avenue when someone shot him. He crashed his car into another vehicle, and medics and police who were summoned to the crash found a gunshot wound in Ford's upper body. Ford died soon afterward at a hospital. The other driver was also hospitalized.
Saturday, Oct. 28 
9:50 p.m. Phillip Johnson, a 44-year-old African-American man, was sitting in the corner carry-out on the 1800 block of Edmondson Avenue when a man burst in and shot him in the upper body. He died soon after at a hospital. As the shooter ran away, someone else shot him in the arm and back. The man, who police identified as Michael Campbell, age 32, was arrested at St. Agnes Hospital, and police say they recovered a gun. Campbell, now charged with murdering Johnson, is a repeat violent offender, according to police. Court records show convictions for armed robbery and first-degree assault. Johnson, who in 2005 was himself sentenced to 12 years for attempted murder, was the sixth person killed this year in the Harlem Park neighborhood. 
Sunday, Oct. 29
2:04 p.m. Anthony Cheeks, a 17-year-old African-American boy, was on the 900 block of N. Carey Street in Sandtown-Winchester, when someone shot him. He died on the street. He was the ninth person murdered in Sandtown-Winchester so far this year. Last year there were eight. 
Updates:
The person killed on the 2400 block of Barclay Street on Oct. 17 was Julio Valdes, a 42-year-old African-American man, who resided on the 1500 block of Myrtle Avenue.
On Oct. 23 Baltimore detectives and U.S. Marshalls arrested Raekwon Thornton on the Eastern Shore. Thornton, who faced two separate gun charges since 2015, and served about 18 months in jail in exchange for a guilty plea in one of them, is now charged with the Sept. 4 murder of Tyrone Ray on the 4200 block of Nicholas Avenue. 
Police have identified the person murdered on Oct. 10 in Brooklyn as Derrean Mills, a 24-year-old African-American man of the 2200 block of Lafayette AVenue. Mills was shot to death on the 3700 block of 5th Street.
UPDATE: As of 11/02/2017 the murder rate is now 302.
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