One Year After the Brooklyn Homes Mass Shooting

BALTIMORE — A year ago Monday, gunshots rang out at a party in the Brooklyn Homes neighborhood in early July. Two young adults, Kylis Fagbemi and Aaliyah Gonzalez, died and 28 others were shot.

“This tragic incident is another glaring and unfortunate example of the deep problems of violence in Baltimore, in Maryland, in this country, particularly gun violence,” Mayor Brandon Scott told reporters the day after the shooting last July.

After the shooting, the Baltimore City Council held hearings, featuring testimony from several city agencies, to shed light on what happened.

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Richard Worley, then acting commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, admitted the department's failure to adequately prepare for the Brooklyn Day celebration.

“From what we have learned so far, this is an even greater breakdown in communication and judgment that is absolutely unacceptable,” Worley told the council on July 13, 2023.

A police report released nearly two months after the shooting admitted as much; the report said police indifference may have contributed to the poor response.

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Last week, after an internal investigation that lasted nearly a year, we learned that twelve members of the BPD, including eight sworn members, would be administratively prosecuted for their action or inaction. None of the members have been named.

In May, three teenagers pleaded guilty after being charged with possession of a handgun by a minor. Two of them were convicted of first-degree assault.

Two other suspects in the mass shooting are charged with murder and awaiting trial.

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