The impact of gun violence

While Baltimore’s leaders continue to look for ways to lower the city’s murder rate, a flattening of the curve on homicides is evident, Lawrence Brown, an author and research scientist in the Center for Urban Health Equity at Morgan State University, says.

Rashid Maxwell Jr., known as “Ugg” to his loved ones, was a playful teen with a knack for fixing things, family members said.

Bryson Hudson is among a growing number of young people killed by gun violence in Baltimore this year.

Since taking charge of the Department of Juvenile Justice, Vincent Schiraldi has focused on severing children with previous gun charges — who are most at risk to become victims themselves — from an unrelenting cycle of violence that caused them to pick up guns in the first place.

Teens are being shot in record numbers, even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down. Here’s what they have to say about it.

Hear from youth and community leaders.

Since the beginning of January, 15 teenagers and a 12-year-old have died as a result of gun violence.

A reader asked The Baltimore Banner to investigative what techniques schools are using to diffuse violence.

Baltimore City, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown and a gun safety group are alleging in a lawsuit that gun manufacturer Glock has facilitated “the proliferation of illegal machine guns."

All but the most serious charges — rape and murder, for example — would return to the juvenile court’s jurisdiction.

The decline in youth homicides of children comes a little over a year after the state began a gun violence diversion program for at-risk youth called Thrive Academy.

The program launched in four high schools that dealt with gun violence near their campuses or involving their students.

Baltimore Police officers said the 14-year-old suspect was charged as an adult with attempted murder in connection with the shooting of a Dunbar High School student.

There have been lawsuits about police conduct. What isn’t widely known is this message from the court system in Worcester County — screw up here, and you won’t be going home anytime soon.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates plans to retry the case of Daaon Spears, 18, of Edmondson Village, who is charged in Baltimore Circuit Court with first-degree murder and related offenses. His first trial recently ended in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict.

The shooting that killed a 14-year-old high school football player in Harford County came after a Halloween party, according to charging documents.

Baltimore County Police say they are looking for a 16-year-old suspect in the shooting death of another teenager at a Pikesville motel last weekend.

A Glen Burnie man has been sentenced in the fatal attack on a Brooklyn Park father who refused to produce his son for an angry group of adults and boys outside their home last year.