- July 11, 2023
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Live from WBFF in Baltimore, this is Fox 45 Morning News. Good Sunday morning to you. Starting live with a look over the Inner Harbor this morning, we are on weather alert. Thanks for joining us this Sunday, July 9th. I’m Taylor Stewart. Let’s jump right in with your forecast. Meteorologist Amy Erinson, it doesn’t look so bad out there right now. So what’s happening later today?
Yes, storms are coming. Not only storms, but I think our biggest concern today is actually going to be for some slow-moving storms, some heavy rain, and actually some flash flooding. Right now, we’re pretty quiet, but you can see that slug of heavier rain coming into Western Maryland. That’s all tracking our direction. A couple of very spotty showers popping up now. That’s kind of just a preview of what’s to come. It is warm, it is muggy out there, so we’ve got a lot of moisture in place. Temperatures already in the upper 70s and low 80s. As we head through the rest of the day, rain chances will be increasing. I think it’s between 1 and 2 o’clock that we get some of the heavier storms moving into our area. At that point, we’re not only tracking the potential for some heavy rain and some flooding, but also some damaging winds. Temperatures also not quite as warm today. We should end up in the mid-80s as the storms arrive. Now, coming up in just about 10 minutes, I’ll break down the timeline of the storms hour by hour, and we’ll also take a look ahead at how much rain we’re expecting through the end of the weekend. Taylor?
All right, in the city in crisis, it’s been a week since the deadly mass shooting in the Brooklyn Homes neighborhood. Police have since arrested a 17-year-old in connection to the shooting, but police say more than a dozen guns were used. Two people were killed, 28 others shot, and three are still in the hospital this weekend. Now, keep in mind, this teenager was only arrested on weapons charges. It came after a day where social media posts allegedly depicted him showing a gun that he was pulling out of a backpack at the block party before the shooting got started. But only weapons charges. His lawyer spoke to Fox 35’s McKenzie Frost about the uncertainty surrounding his arrest.
“We don’t know what it was. We don’t know if it was a real gun, if it was a toy gun. We have no idea what it was. And until we do know what it was, it’s very difficult to basically make guesses. We don’t know what it was. Have you asked him? I have asked him. What did he say? We just don’t know what it was. He said he doesn’t know. Well, we don’t know what it is. What does that mean? That means that we don’t know what it was.”
The 17-year-old’s arrest, coupled with 15 juvenile victims in this mass shooting, is reigniting calls for more action on juvenile crime, not only here in Baltimore but across the state. Maxine Striker has the latest.
A 17-year-old is in custody tonight in connection to the Brooklyn mass shooting. The young man seen in this video allegedly with a gun, now facing weapons charges but not homicide or attempted homicide after 28 people were shot and two were killed. Sunday, of the victims, 15 of them were juveniles, ranging from just 13 years old to 17. While murders and non-fatal shootings are down throughout Baltimore, the city continues to see a spike in juvenile crime. This year alone, 11 juveniles have been killed, 58 others shot and survived.
“What I will tell you is we need to do something fast, quick, in a hurry. Juveniles understand that nothing will happen to them.”
City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates believes recent changes in state law are contributing to the rise in juvenile violence.
“To be honest, I think it’s one of the worst pieces of legislation I’ve ever read.”
Bates says Maryland’s new Juvenile Justice Reform Act is just too lenient. The law, passed last year, is focused on services, not sentences, for young people.
“So they cannot enter into an entire life of criminality and they can understand the consequences for their actions. If the most serious offense the child committed would have been an adult felony, the maximum penalty is one year probation. That any child under the age of 13 may not be charged with a crime. The juvenile has an illegal handgun, the longest that they can be on probation is six months. Six months. What services can we give a kid in six months?”
Well, at least one Republican lawmaker is now calling for a special session in the wake of the mass shooting. Bates says he’s just planning to stay in his lane, prosecuting the laws on the books. He said in part, “My job as State’s Attorney is to enforce the laws passed by the Maryland General Assembly. While I did not intend to call for a special session, I look forward to working with the governor and the legislature to ensure that we have laws that can keep residents safe.” Fox 45 News confirmed four Safe Streets workers were in Brooklyn before the shooting occurred. They de-escalated a number of conflicts that day, but we’re told Monti did not relay that information to police. They did not answer several of our questions, which include what time the Safe Streets workers were at the block party, when they left, and if they anticipate any policy changes. We reached out to Mayor Scott too about the communication between public safety agencies. Take a listen.
“Do you still believe that Safe Streets is effective?”
“We know Safe Streets is effective.”
“How can you say that?”
“Well, I can say many things after this. When you have an event like this, right, we don’t say that the U.S. military is ineffective because 9/11 happens. So when you have an event like this, right, we don’t say, well, we must get rid of all of our federal intelligence agencies because this happened. That’s just an idiotic way of thinking.”
Baltimore City Councilman Mark Conway is calling for a hearing to discuss the hours leading up to Baltimore’s largest mass shooting in recent history. We spoke with the former Department of Justice official about what led to an apparent breakdown between Monty and police about who knew what and when, as a timeline begins to emerge of the day two people were killed and 28 others injured in a shootout at a block party in South Baltimore. Councilman Mark Conway is calling for a hearing into communication between city agencies and law enforcement and their subsequent response. This after leaders with Monty confirmed staff from Safe Streets, the city’s gun violence prevention program, were present at the Brooklyn Homes block party and, in fact, de-escalated three to four disputes earlier in the day. If, when, and how that information was relayed to Baltimore Police, not clear.
“You have to ask the question, why did they leave if they had already mitigated four or five beefs prior to that? So why did they leave? And in leaving, why didn’t they inform someone that these, you know, there were weapons there or there were beefs there and these things were going on? It’s hard to think that in the midst of having almost a thousand people out at an event that no one from the police department located that Saturday.”
Dispatch audio indicates BPD was alerted to fights and violence in the housing development before multiple people were shot, but a sergeant saying not to go alone toward the crowd and wary Crawford crosses overhead. Councilman Conway, who chairs the Public Safety Committee, is calling on police, the housing authority, and leaders with Monty for answers.
About all and, but the other part of that is we’re investing a lot of resources into Monty, into Safe Streets, into these other organizations and agencies. And what we’re not…
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