One year since Brooklyn Homes mass shooting

One year ago, gunshots rang out at a celebration in the Brooklyn Homes community. Two young adults, Kylis Fagbemi and Aaliyah Gonzalez, died, and 28 others were shot.

“This tragic incident is another glaring, unfortunate example of the deep issues of violence in Baltimore, in Maryland, in this country, particularly gun violence,” Mayor Brandon Scott told reporters in the shooting’s aftermath last July.

After the shooting, Baltimore City Council held hearings, with testimony from several city agencies, to get to the bottom of what happened.

Richard Worley, then acting commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, admitted the department’s failure to adequately prepare for the Brooklyn Day celebration.

“From what we’ve learned so far, this was an even greater breakdown of communication and judgment that is absolutely unacceptable,” Worley told the council on July 13, 2023.

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