"This stuff has been going on for a while and to the extent that young men are bent on absolutely annihilating each other, it's a continuing frustration," Bealefeld said. Last week alone, Baltimore had glowing school test scores and a successful soccer match that proved to the world that an American football stadium can sell out for its European cousin. And Monday night, Anthony Bourdain's popular cable show, No Reservations, came to our city.
But Baltimore Sun television critic David Zurawik noted on his blog that the show took the now cliched and definitely jaded approach of The Wi re, featuring pit beef over crabs and boarded rowhouses over the Inner Harbor. "Unfair," you shout, but how can that argument stand when 18 citizens are shot on a single night in just one half of one city in America?
We lament our reputation for violence and then do everything we can to prove our critics right.
Police response online evolved with shootings
The Baltimore Police Department sent the following messages using the social media tool Twitter between 7 p.m. and midnight.
* MULTIPLE SHOOTING: N. Lakewood/Ashland Ave - multiple people shot; update to follow. Police en route
* UPDATE: N. Lakewood/Ashland Ave - 7 people shot, all transported to area hospitals. Police investigating and working crime scene
* DOUBLE SHOOTING: Fayette/Conklin Sts, 2 adult male victims. Police investigating
* Shooting, 2846 Harford RD, adult male shot in leg
* UPDATE: N. Lakewood/Ashland Ave - 12 people shot & wounded following barbecue. None of the injuries so far appeared to be life-threatening.
* UPDATE: Shooting @ Fayette & Conkling now a double homicide
* SHOOTING: Reported at Baltimore & Bond Male shot. Police investigating
* REMINDER: Information posted on Twitter, Nixle & Facebook is preliminary and subject to change as police investigate incidents.
