Gerald Leon Smith Jr

Gerald Leon Smith Jr., a 17-year-old Black male from Baltimore, Maryland, was killed on June 2, 2015, in a year when the city was already buckling under a relentless wave of violence. That day, as early summer settled in, the ordinary rhythms of neighborhood life were interrupted by gunfire, the kind of sudden eruption that leaves behind panic, sirens, and a street transformed into a place people remember for all the wrong reasons.

The fatal shooting was associated with the 4100 block of ...