Desmond Gaylord Tucker

In the winter of 2007, the life of Desmond Gaylord Tucker, a 52-year-old Black male, was cut short by violence on a street in Baltimore, Maryland. On February 2nd of that year, in a residential neighborhood, Mr. Tucker was shot. Police discovered him after the shooting, but the wounds proved to be fatal. His death was another grim statistic in a city that was grappling with a significant wave of violent crime.

The killing of Desmond Tucker was one of many homicides that plagued Baltimore ...