Melvin 3Rd King

In the summer of 2017, a wave of violence continued to trouble the city of Baltimore. On the night of August 2nd, Melvin King III, a 32-year-old Black man, became another victim of this tragic trend. He was discovered on the 3500 block of Pulaski Highway, having sustained fatal injuries from a stabbing.

Emergency services responded to the scene, but tragically, King's life could not be saved. The incident was one of many homicides that plagued Baltimore that year, a period marked by a sig ...