“When it Gets Dark, We Don’t Leave the House”

4/7/21

By Vanessa Gabriela Sanchez, BaltimoreBrew

Fabian Mendez was heading to work when he was hit and dragged several blocks with his own vehicle in the Baltimore Highlands neighborhood. Marcus Wilson was skateboarding with his 5-year-old daughter when he was stabbed in Highlandtown.

Two southeast Baltimore families lost a loved one in a week.

Holding candles and homemade signs with goodbye messages, family members stood before neighbors and community leaders at a vigil last night at the Conkling Street Garden to share their pain and to protest the violence.

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