In the late hours of a Friday evening in Baltimore, tragedy struck a young life, leaving a family and community to grapple with a sudden and violent loss. On June 8, 2012, Vernon Jerome Jr. Williams, a 19-year-old Black male, was found at approximately 11:45 p.m. in the 400 block of East 21st Street. He had been shot.
Details surrounding the circumstances that led to the shooting have remained scarce in the public domain. The incident was one of many acts of violence that plagued the city
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