Dominique R Harris

In the midst of a year marked by a surge of violence in Baltimore, the life of Dominique R. Harris, a 22-year-old African-American man, was cut short on December 28, 2015. On that Monday, in the 1900 block of McHenry Street, Harris was shot multiple times. He died at the scene, becoming one of the city's final homicide victims of a year that saw a staggering number of killings.

The death of Dominique Harris was emblematic of the escalating crisis of violence that gripped Baltimore in 2015 ...