Christopher Morris Barrett

In the summer of 2007, a particularly violent year for the city of Baltimore, 52-year-old Christopher Morris Barrett, an African-American male, became one of the city's numerous homicide victims. His life was tragically cut short on July 2, 2007. The grim discovery of his body was made behind a rowhouse located in the 1500 block of Bond Street.

The year Mr. Barrett was killed, Baltimore was grappling with a significant surge in violence, recording over 280 homicides by the year's end. His ...