The boy shot dead in a West Baltimore rowhouse on Friday was 8-year-old Dylan King and his death is being treated as an “open active homicide investigation,” police said Wednesday morning.
Old Town in central Baltimore, one of the three original settlements in the downtown area of the city, has seen better days. The neighborhood has a pedestrian mall that now has decaying buildings, giving it the feel of a ghost town.
Resident leaders such as George McMechen, one of Baltimore’s first Black lawyers, and Dr. Lillie Carroll Jackson, a 30-year president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP, lived in or around the neighborhood.
Baltimore Circuit Judge Robert K. Taylor Jr. will oversee proceedings regarding the release of an investigation detailing the “sexual abuse” and “physical torture” of more than 600 children and teens at the hands of 158 Catholic priests.