John Gray, a 47-year-old Baltimore resident, was shot and killed on December 4, 2017. His death marked a continuation of the unrelenting violence that characterized Baltimore in 2017, a year in which the city reached a staggering 343 homicides. Gray was one of the many victims whose deaths contributed to the city's escalating homicide rate, which that year recorded a shocking 55.8 killings per 100,000 people, one of the highest in the nation.
Gray's homicide occurred during a time when
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