AFRO - Since then, more of Baltimore’s children have been caught in the crossfires of gang wars, drug disputes and oftentimes childish disagreements but bringing too many early deaths or injury to “little ones.” The news of shooting deaths of children and youth is no longer as surprising as the word of the toddler’s tragedy in Waverly seven years ago.| By Ralph E. Moore Jr., Special to the AFRO When a stray bullet struck and killed three year old McKenzie Elliott on August 1, 2014 as she played on her mother’s porch, Baltimore was in shock. Then-Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called it a “very, very painful time in our city.” Terrell Plummer, age 29, pleaded guilty to […]
