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April 25. ( 2022-04-25) –. May 30, 2022. ( 2022-05-30) We Own This City is an American crime drama miniseries based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. The miniseries was developed by George Pelecanos and David Simon and directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green. The six-episode series premiered on HBO on ...
The American city of Baltimore, Maryland, is notorious for its crime rate, which ranks well above the national average. Violent crime spiked in 2015 after the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, 2015, which touched off riots and an increase in murders. The city recorded 348 homicides in 2019, a number second only to the number recorded in 1993 ...
The Baltimore Sun was featured in the American crime drama television series The Wire in 2008 , which was created by former Sun reporter David Simon. [57] Like all of the institutions featured in The Wire , the Sun is portrayed as having many deeply dysfunctional qualities while also having very dedicated people on its staff.
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African American, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department for possession of a knife. While in police custody, Gray sustained fatal injuries and was taken to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center. Gray died on April 19, 2015; his death was ascribed to injuries to his cervical ...
Catherine Anne Cesnik SSND (born November 17, 1942; disappeared November 7, 1969) was a Roman Catholic religious sister and a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. On November 7, 1969, Cesnik disappeared. [1] Her body was discovered on January 3, 1970, near a garbage dump in the Baltimore suburb of ...
Background Keona Holley Keona Holley (1981 or 1982 – December 23, 2021), also known as "KeKe" and the "Mom from the West Side", worked her first job at a McDonald's in Baltimore County at the age of 16, before pursuing a healthcare career. She had been employed at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, a psychiatric hospital in Jessup, Maryland, [b] before leaving in 2019 and joining the ...
Killing of Hae Min Lee. Hae Min Lee ( Korean : 이해민; born October 15, 1980) [1] was a Korean-American high school student who went missing on January 13, 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland, before turning up dead on February 9, 1999, when her corpse was discovered in Leakin Park, Baltimore. Her autopsy revealed that she had been killed by ...
LC Class. HV5833.B2 S55 1997. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood is a 1997 book written by Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon and former Baltimore homicide detective Ed Burns. This book follows the lives of individuals who lived on the corner of Fayette Street and Monroe Street in West Baltimore over one year.