John David Walsh

On Monday afternoon, January 5, 2015, Baltimore was dealing with yet another burst of violence when officers confirmed that John David Walsh, 46, a White man, had been killed in a shooting on the 1100 block of North Carrollton Avenue, the same block where he lived. The public details stopped almost as soon as his name was released—no long description of what led up to the gunfire, no account of who might have been nearby, just the stark acknowledgment that a life ended there.

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