Vaughn Jr. Riley

In the early morning hours of August 30, 2017, the life of Vaughn Jr. Riley, a 27-year-old African-American man, was cut short in a burst of gunfire on the 4700 block of York Road in Baltimore, Maryland. The incident, which also wounded another individual, marked another grim statistic in a year plagued by a surge in gun violence and one of the highest homicide rates in the city's recent history. When police responded to the reports of the shooting, they found Riley at the scene, where he was pr ...