Thomas Johnson, a 16-year-old from Baltimore, Maryland, was fatally shot on August 11, 2017, on Chesterfield Avenue in the Belair-Edison neighborhood. His death was one of many homicides that took place during a particularly violent year for Baltimore, where the city experienced a dramatic increase in homicides, ending with a record 343 killings by the end of 2017. The violence that year left the community reeling and authorities overwhelmed by the scale of violent crime.
The homicide o
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