3 Victims Of Recent Baltimore Gun Violence Laid To Rest Saturday
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Three victims of Baltimore gun violence were laid to rest Saturday just a day after the city hit a historically high homicide rate.
With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire. To put that into perspective, New York has had 306 homicides this year and has 14 times as many people as Baltimore.
Family and friends gathered in the morning for the funeral of 21-year-old Destiny Harrison - a beauty salon owner who was killed at her business.
A second ceremony was also held for 33-year-old Sean Davis. He was shot Dec. 17 on E. 25th Street - the same block where he collected items for a toy drive before Christmas.
Another funeral was also held for Carmen Rodriguez - a mother of four who died Sunday after a shooting at her family's deli.
Many continued to plea for the violence to come to an end.
"It's nonsense," Shelly Williams, Destiny Harrison's second cousin, said. "It needs to stop."
Other Baltimore residents told WJZ that the violence is scary.
"I'm scared as a parent out there," one resident told WJZ. "That's crazy to me. My heart man, it hurts."
"I think it's terrible," another resident said. "It's hurting family members and I just think there's a lot that Baltimore can do to help."
East Baltimore resident Knyasia Vanstory offered one solution for young people that might help curtail the violence.
"Have more activities for us to do," she said. "Then maybe there wouldn't be as many killings."
This is the fifth year in a row that Baltimore has reported more than 300 homicides.
