Sun coverage: East Baltimore violence
Archived coverage of an eruption of violence on Baltimore's east side that police believe is connected to a long-running dispute between drug organizations.
August 2, 2009
A neighborhood under the gun
The 55 souls gathered at Faith Tabernacle Apostolic Church kept worshiping Sunday evening when a flash of light danced across the stained-glass windows. Just a police car responding to a call, they figured, a common enough sight in this part of East Baltimore. Probably nothing too serious.
August 2, 2009
Professionalism and calm at the eye of the storm
After she'd helped a man who had been shot three times into a wheelchair, after an SUV had delivered another shooting victim and two more men had walked past with bloodied T-shirts covering their wounds, nurse Cindy Barber began to wonder just what was unfolding in the Johns Hopkins emergency room.
August 1, 2009
Man charged in fatal shooting
Police have charged a 20-year-old man in connection with a fatal shooting that might have ties to Sunday's shooting of 12 people at an East Baltimore cookout, according to law enforcement sources.
July 31, 2009
City officials praise U.S. on crime
City officials retreated Thursday from criticizing federal agencies for their role in a joint investigation of feuding drug rings, emphasizing instead the collaborative nature of the process and the many times the feds have come to Baltimore's aid.
July 30, 2009
Probe of Baltimore violence grows wider
The abduction of two Catonsville brothers last year - which police believe triggered a wave of retaliatory killings and other violence, including the shootings of 12 people at a cookout Sunday - was orchestrated by members of a heroin organization who believed their supplier was cheating them, authorities allege in court documents reviewed by The Baltimore Sun.
July 29, 2009
Safe Streets outreach worker wounded at cookout
An outreach worker for the Safe Streets program was among 12 people wounded at an East Baltimore cookout Sunday, a development that could cast unwanted attention on a well-regarded group known for mediating conflict out of view of law enforcement.
July 28, 2009
18 shootings stem largely from drug feud, police say
Police believe a long-running dispute between drug organizations contributed to an unprecedented eruption of violence on Baltimore's east side Sunday night that left at least 18 people shot, including two who died.
July 28, 2009
Weekend's shootings obscure year's progress
The spate of shootings Sunday night and early Monday morning culminated a bloody weekend in which about two dozen people were shot, including four who were killed. But the violence belies police statistics that show shootings and overall gun crimes are down significantly from last year.
July 28, 2009
CRIME BEAT
Bullets fly in Baltimore, and no one's surprised
No one was shot on Fairmount Avenue.
3:40 PM EDT, July 27, 2009
Chronology of violence linked to 2008 abduction of two teens
• April 1, 2008: Brothers Stephon Blackwell, then 16, and Sterling Blackwell, then 15, are kidnapped from their home in the 600 block of Plymouth Road, a few blocks west of the city line. Six masked gunmen burst into house and held 10 people — including the boys and their mother — hostage for eight hours before stealing a car. As the gunmen left, they fired shots at Steven "JR" Blackwell Jr., the boys' older brother, as he arrived, police said. Amber alerts were issued for the teens, and several law enforcement agencies assisted in the search, though others in the house declined to cooperate.
10:45 AM EDT, July 22, 2009
Read Twitter updates on East Baltimore violence on night of shootings
At least 17 people were shot and two killed in separate incidents Sunday night, including a shooting at a backyard cookout in East Baltimore that left 12 people injured. Among the victims in that shooting were a pregnant woman and a 2-year-old girl, police said.
July 27, 2009
At least 12 shot during cookout
A pregnant woman and 2-year-old girl were among at least 12 people wounded Sunday night when one or more gunmen opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon at a backyard cookout in East Baltimore, said a city police spokesman.
August 1, 2008
Killings may be tied to kidnapping case
As many as five Baltimore homicides over the past three months might be connected to the April kidnapping of two teenage boys from a Catonsville home, according to several law enforcement sources.
February 14, 2009
Body in river may have gang ties
A man who was suffocated and found floating in the Patapsco River this week had been abducted and held for ransom and is believed to be connected to a violent drug gang whose feuding with rivals may have been responsible for at least five homicides last summer, according to law enforcement sources and court records.
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