The impact of gun violence

While Baltimore’s leaders continue to look for ways to lower the city’s murder rate, a flattening of the curve on homicides is evident, Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University, says.

Rashid Maxwell Jr., known as “Ugg” to his loved ones, was a playful teen with a knack for fixing things, family members said.

Bryson Hudson is among a growing number of young people killed by gun violence in Baltimore this year.

Since taking charge of the Department of Juvenile Justice, Vincent Schiraldi has focused on severing children with previous gun charges — who are most at risk to become victims themselves — from an unrelenting cycle of violence that caused them to pick up guns in the first place.

Teens are being shot in record numbers, even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down. Here’s what they have to say about it.

Hear from youth and community leaders.

Since the beginning of January, 15 teenagers and a 12-year-old have died as a result of gun violence.

A reader asked The Baltimore Banner to investigative what techniques schools are using to diffuse violence.

A 23-year-old man has been arrested and charged in a shooting that killed a 12-year-old girl near a homecoming youth football game in Southwest Baltimore, officials said Tuesday.

Khloe Ishway’s family and community members called for justice at Leon Day Park Monday as police continued searching for a suspect in the shooting that killed the 12-year-old.

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A Howard County court sentenced Jeremiah Robinson to 25 years in prison and five years probation for his role in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Lance Carrington in Columbia on Jan. 14, 2025.

The family of Jada Sellers is remembering the 17-year-old Milford Mill Academy student, who died 12 days after being shot in West Baltimore.

While shootings victimizing teens between ages 13 and 18 remain above pre-pandemic levels, they have fallen sharply this year compared to the same time period in 2023, a Banner analysis has found. This dashboard is updated with the latest data from BPD.

Baltimore Police said that a 16-year-old has been charged as an adult with murder in the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old man in February.

A suspect has been arrested in the fatal shootings of two siblings, ages 15 and 9, inside their Gwynn Oak home July 7, Baltimore County Police said Wednesday.

The Maryland Second Look Act allows people who’ve served at least 20 years in prison for crimes committed when they were adults younger than 25 to ask a court to reduce their sentence.

Baltimore Police said a 15-year-old boy has turned himself in to face first-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in February.