The February pub crawl on South Baltimore's Fort Avenue was one of the hottest debated subjects in a while, with people weighing in on the potent mix of alcohol, youthful revelers, intruders into city neighborhoods and gentrification.
Now, we have the 911 tapes from the fights -- the first started at Fort and Charles and the second, which ended with a man stabbed in the back -- was further east at Fort and Covington. The calls include both banter from police, frantic cries from witnesses and a long call from the stabbing victim himself.
Here are some more details from today's article:
At the stabbing in front of Luckies, it was the victim himself, 25-year-old Michael Kooser, who made the first 911 call.
"I got stabbed in the back," Kooser yelled into a cell phone.
"Who did it?" the operator asked.
"Someone down here," the victim answered. "I'm at Fort Avenue at Luckies in South Baltimore."
The operator demanded an address and Kooser tried for about a minute to come up with one. "Hey, what block we on," he shouted, amid loud yelling in the background.
"Who stabbed you?" the operator asked again.
"Some girl with some dudes," Kooser answered. In the background, a woman screamed: "Somebody help this guy!"
Another woman called police. "I pulled over because there was a fight," she said. "They stabbed him. They're going to get the cops. Oh my God, they're all going to get stabbed."
The operator interrupted, "I'm trying to help you."
The woman answered, her words almost drowned out by her own footsteps as she ran after one of the suspects. "The dude is bleeding profusely because of the stab wound. … I'm chasing them down."