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.