South Baltimore neighborhoods

    Telling the story of Baltimore’s water infrastructure system through … water ballet?
    Fluid Movement, the aquatic-based performing arts group, used sinkholes, the Stool Fairy, Mr. Bottle, Mr. Trash Wheel and more in their performance explaining how the water in our city works.
    Anne Beck, 33, performs a platform lift in the "Sad and Lonely Tale of Mr. Bottle" scene..
    Brooklyn Homes mass shooting victim faces charges in separate gunfire incident
    Investigators have filed multiple gun-related charges against 18-year-old Aaron Brown, who is accused of trying to shoot another person in Northeast Baltimore on May 19.
    A Baltimore Police detective’s handcuffs are secured on his belt as he observes the crowd in between innings during a baseball game against the Oakland Athletics held at Camden Yards on Wednesday, April 12. The Orioles beat the Athletics, 8-7, to win the series.
    Harm City: On a ‘Toxic Tour’ of Curtis Bay, academics and activists see a hidden part of Baltimore
    Curtis Bay may be Baltimore’s most polluted community, surrounded by industrial facilities strangling the rowhouse neighborhood. The city wants to close a local recreation center to make way for even more industry, continuing what activists say have been decades of environmental racism.
    Shashawnda Campbell poses for a portrait behind Curtis Bay Recreation Center, in Baltimore.
    Charges dropped for women arrested protesting BGE external regulators in Federal Hill
    Bates said the charges against the three women would have been dropped after they completed five hours of community service through Baltimore’s citation docket program. They spent "approximately 19 hours" in Central Booking, he said.
    Claudia Towles, just left of center, is arrested by a Baltimore Police officer during a protest on Warren Avenue next to Federal Hill on Thursday, June 22.
    Why did police call for cleaners before processing mass shooting scene?
    Baltimore Police said they allowed the cleaning of "debris" before they finished processing the scene of the city's largest mass shooting in recent memory. Experts say valuable DNA evidence could have been lost in the process.
    9:01 a.m.: A cleaning crew member rakes garbage at the crime scene on Elarton Court in Brooklyn after the mass shooting July 2.
    Brooklyn mass shooting victim Kylis Fagbemi remembered at funeral Friday
    Fagbemi, 20, was a forklift operator at Amazon and Kohl’s who had big dreams of becoming a traveling ultrasound technician. He had recently signed up for a certification course, according to his family.
    Loved ones hold a vigil in honor of Kylis Fagbemi, 20, on July 11. Fagbemi was shot and killed at a Brooklyn Homes block party on July 2.
    Too old for gold? Not these senior athletes.
    More than 1,000 medal events took place over twelve 12 days in 21 different, sports including basketball, swimming, table tennis, track and field, and badminton.
    Paul Milewski of Wisconsin,  Robert Koontz, 79, of Waldorf MD, and William Bach of South Carolina, compete in the 100-meter at South Fayette High School, in McDonald, PA, during the National Senior Games, Wednesday, July 12, 2023.
    Clifton Park pool on track to open Friday
    Contractors repaired the pool’s pump, clearing the way for the pool in northeast Baltimore to open.
    In an email to The Baltimore Banner on Thursday, Kevin Nash, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Recreation & Parks, wrote the city expects the Clifton Park pool to be operational Friday. (CBS News Baltimore)
    How a Baltimore barber goes beyond the shop and gives life advice to people in need
    Derel Owens, a barber in Southwest Baltimore, has been counseling clients of the TIME Organization since getting his psychiatric rehabilitation program license last September.
    Juan Batty gets his beard trimmed by barber Derel Owens inside the TIME Organization’s Barber Shop on July 11, 2023. Owens joined the non-profit organization to focus on cutting hair while also counseling clients so they feel their best physically and mentally.
    Her son was killed in Brooklyn. At Thursday’s hearing, she told the council it’s an ‘island’ devoid of services.
    Less than six months after her son was killed in the 800 block of Gretna Court, Donna Bruce watched with horror on Instagram Live as the Brooklyn Day event she knew well devolved into a chaotic shooting exchange of gunfire on that same street, without a police officer in sight.
    Kevin Keegan, Associated Catholic Charities’ director of family services, speaks at the Baltimore City Council hearing on the Brooklyn mass shooting on July 13, 2023.
    2-year-old girl’s death ruled a homicide by overdose, police say
    Officers found the girl with her blood coming out of her nose in November.
    7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
    ‘Two children are dead!’ City agencies admit failures, and dodge questions, in Brooklyn shooting
    The nearly four-hour-long hearing included emotional testimony from attendees and calls for more resources in South Baltimore.
    City Council President Nick Mosby, right, looks on seated while seated next to Councilwoman Phylicia Porter at the Baltimore City Council hearing on the Brooklyn shooting.
    Hearing will examine city failures around mass shooting in South Baltimore
    City Council members will have a chance for answers during a public hearing today to examine the failures of communication and action around the mass shooting in South Baltimore.
    A row of two story brick buildings stands in the background. In the foreground is police tape. A U-Haul truck and police vehicles are visible.
    Brooklyn needed help before the mass shooting. Here’s what residents say.
    Why some residents feel out of sight and out of mind in this South Baltimore neighborhood.
    “The people of the Brooklyn neighborhood have felt cut off geographically, culturally and psychologically for 100 years,” Del. Robbyn Lewis said.
    Commentary: What a mass shooting costs our community’s children
    Gun violence such as the recent mass shooting in South Baltimore has a lasting effect on how many Baltimore young people view their lives and their community, says Adam Schwartz, an author who has taught high school in Baltimore for 25 years.
    Kiran, 8, and Taylor, 6, hold up signs that say “DON’T SHOOT. We want to grow up.” during a Safe Streets peace walk on July 7, 2023 in Brooklyn. Gun violence such as the recent mass shooting in that South Baltimore neighborhood has a lasting effect on how many Baltimore young people view their lives, says Adam Schwartz, an author who has taught high school in Baltimore for 25 years.
    Family, friends hold vigil for Kylis Fagbemi, who died in South Baltimore mass shooting
    The 20-year-old was one of two people shot and killed at a neighborhood event in the Brooklyn section of South Baltimore.
    Tamika L, mother of Kylis Fagbemi, 20, is comforted by loved ones at a vigil in honor of Fagbemi on July 11, 2023.
    Lidl grocery store in Brooklyn Park to close on Sunday, company confirms
    The discount food chain said in a statement that the store was “underperforming.” The announcement follows a mass shooting in the nearby Brooklyn section of South Baltimore that left two dead and 28 wounded.
    The owner of the Lidl food market in Brooklyn Park says it will close the store on Sunday, July 16, 2023 (Cadence Quaranta for The Baltimore Banner)
    19 gunshot victims went to a small South Baltimore hospital. They all lived.
    The staff at MedStar Harbor Hospital is used to tending gunshot wounds once every other week. But last weekend they treated two-thirds of the Brooklyn mass shooting victims.
    Malkia Murray, a nurse, describes the experience of treating 19 mass shooting victims, mostly teens, at MedStar Harbor Hospital.
    Baltimore, several counties under severe thunderstorm watch; ‘hazardous’ weather possible
    Much of Maryland is under a flood watch Sunday, according to the National Weather Service, and could see severe thunderstorms produce excessive rainfall and strong winds.
    Scattered thunderstorms are possible in Baltimore Thursday.
    South Baltimore shooting response is a political challenge for Mayor Scott
    Political experts say voters will remember what could be the largest shooting in city history — and Mayor Scott’s leadership in the aftermath.
    Mayor Brandon Scott speaks at a press conference near Glade Court in Brooklyn after a shooting early Sunday morning, July 2, 2023.
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