{"id":6568,"date":"2013-07-02T07:11:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:11:04","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T07:11:04","slug":"residents-anxious-as-shootings-in-black-baltimore-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6568","title":{"rendered":"Residents anxious as shootings in black Baltimore surge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"baltimore\"<\/a>The surge in violence continues in Baltimore as the police report more shootings, the last of which happened late Saturday in Northeast Baltimore.<\/p>\n

C<\/strong>lergy and lawmakers are trying to calm anxious residents.<\/p>\n

There have been three shootings in the last 24 hours in Baltimore. At least 40 shootings have happened in the last 10 days and 16 of them were deadly.<\/p>\n

City clergy are now asking residents to step up and end this violent trend.<\/p>\n

At Lafayette Avenue, a man is shot in the leg and at South Haven street, a woman is shot and killed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never had anything like this happen on Haven Street. I\u2019ve been here for 15 years and never seen anything like that,\u201d said concerned resident John Wrencher.<\/p>\n

His block becomes the latest home to Baltimore\u2019s nearly 40 shootings in two weeks. More than a dozen people are dead.<\/p>\n

City clergy and members of 120 churches are rallying and praying this weekend for peace.<\/p>\n

Even a 21-car motorcade drives through the city showing just how deadly this violent trend is becoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you put a police officer in every block, you still could not solve the program when the problem is inside of the individual, \u201d said Bishop Angel L. Nunez of Bilingual Christian Church.<\/p>\n

This recent surge in shootings highlights the city\u2019s problem with gun violence and homicide rate. So far this year, there have been around 117 homicides, the highest in six years.<\/p>\n

But for Stephanie Rawlings Blake, it\u2019s personal.<\/p>\n

Her cousin, was gunned down last month near his home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether our homicide rate is 200 or 300 or one, we can never get that life back,\u201d said Rawlings-Blake.<\/p>\n

With the violence spotlighting Baltimore, the mayor said the solution starts with us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we have a spike, we have cameras from all over the city, outside of the city, national reporters. I welcome them back for the miracle. I know that as you are standing here, you are not going to tolerate it,\u201d said Rawlings-Blake.<\/p>\n

City leaders say that call to action, may stop the next shot from being fired in your neighborhood.<\/p>\n

In the latest shooting, an adult male was shot in the back on a basketball court. He is being treated for non life-threatening injuries at a local hospital.<\/p>\n

Police plan to step up enforcement through Fourth of July weekend. – CBS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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