Norvin Darrel Jones

In the early evening of February 11, 2014, a burst of violence on the 500 block of East 35th Street in Baltimore, Maryland, claimed the life of 26-year-old Norvin Darrel Jones, a Black male. Emergency responders arrived at the scene to find Jones suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to a local hospital, but his injuries proved to be fatal, and he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

The death of Norvin Jones was one of a number of homicides that plagued Baltimore in ...