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    Maryland police, Gov. Hogan offer reward after Baltimore student shot dead at prom after-party

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    Authorities in Baltimore, Maryland and the state are offering a combined $16,000 reward for information on the killing of an 18-year-old high school student who was fatally shot while attending a junior prom after-party. 

    Jasmine Brunson was shot just before 12:40 a.m. on May 13 while at the after-party following the dance, police said.   

    The Baltimore Police Department told Fox News the investigation into the killing is ongoing. Authorities have not released a potential motive.

    Metro Crime Stoppers Of Maryland is offering an $8,000 cash reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of Brunson’s killer. On Wednesday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, announced the state was offering an additional $8,000.

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    Jasmine Brunson, 18, was shot and killed last week while attending a prom afterparty, Baltimore police said. (Baltimore Police Department)

    Brunson was a student at Carver Vocational-Technical High School and became a serious boxer as classrooms shifted to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Baltimore Sun reported. 

    “He had Muhammad Ali on the wall and his boxing gloves still sitting on the bed,” his aunt, Jessica Heir told the newspaper. “He boxed. That’s what he did. He really loved it.”

    In a tweet, Democratic State Sen. Jill P. Carter called Brunson a “math whiz and a chivalrous young man.”

    “He was the life of the party,” she wrote. 

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    Anyone with information on the killing is asked to contact Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-756-2587.

    Baltimore 12, 13-year-old boys arrested for allegedly stealing car from body shop

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    Baltimore police took two boys, ages 12 and 13, into custody after they allegedly attempted to steal a vehicle from a body shop.

    The juveniles entered the yard of a body shop in the 100 block of South Warwick Avenue in Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, on the southwestern side of the city. 

    Body shop in the 100 block of South Warwick Avenue, Baltimore (Google Maps)

    “Once inside the yard, the juveniles worked in concert to steal a vehicle,” the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) wrote in a Thursday press release posted to Facebook. “One juvenile broke the vehicle window and started to drive away, ramming another vehicle [i]n the yard blocking the exit. The other juvenile held open the gate to the garage yard so they could get away.”

    BALTIMORE ON-DUTY DETECTIVE HAS UNMARKED DEPARTMENTAL VEHICLE CARJACKED, POLICE SAY

    A mechanic working on a vehicle at the body shop witnessed the alleged theft and contacted authorities. 

    A Baltimore Police vehicle is seen on Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Baltimore, MD.  (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)

    The two boys went on to drive “recklessly” around the Southwest District, “drawing the attention of citizens that reported seeing a suspicious vehicle in the area.” They eventually struck a civilian vehicle. 

    BALTIMORE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS STABBED IN SCHOOL’S SECOND VIOLENT INCIDENT IN 2 DAYS

    A BPD helicopter assisted the officers with the department’s Regional Auto Theft Taskforce to locate the stolen vehicle “that eventually drove into Baltimore County and crashed in the 4300 block of Southwestern Boulevard.”

    4300 Southwestern Blvd, Baltimore, MD (Google Maps)

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    Officers took the 12 and 13-year-old boys into custody for auto theft and traffic violations. They were then taken to a local hospital and will later face formal charges, police said. 

    Anyone can submit anonymous tips to Baltimore’s Metro Crime Stoppers tip-line at 1-866-7LOCK-UP or anonymously text a tip by visiting the MCS of Maryland website.

    Baltimore on-duty detective has unmarked departmental vehicle carjacked, police say

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    An on-duty Baltimore police detective fired at three armed suspects who carjacked him Tuesday evening, police said. 

    The carjacking happened outside a convenience store in the 2800 block of South Hanover Street around 6:15 p.m. The detective shot at the suspects as they fled the scene in his unmarked departmental vehicle. 

    • Detectives inspect the wreckage of the overturned vehicle.  (WBFF)

    • Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott.  (WBFF)

    • One of the suspects remains at large.  (WBFF)

    Police said the suspects drove over the Hanover Street bridge where the vehicle crashed and overturned. 

    The suspects then fled the crash scene on foot. Police arrested two of the suspects, while the third remains at large. The detective and the suspects arrested were reportedly not wounded, WBFF reported. 

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    “Tonight, @BaltimorePolice finest were nothing short of heroic,” Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 said in a statement. 

    “Our Detective was carjacked and he fired upon his assailants,” the organization wrote. “The criminals flipped the car and 2 out of 3 suspects were arrested due to the great work of all responding BPD units.” 

    Police Commissioner Michael Harrison the department’s Special Investigations Response will investigate the incident. 

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    Anyone with information is being asked to call investigators at 410-396-2499. 

    Somali-born Air Force veteran says Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal sparked her run for Congress

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    A Somali-born immigrant and Air Force veteran is running for office as a Republican in the Baltimore area, explaining that the “Defund Police” movement and the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan motivated her to run for Congress.

    “The military service and government service brought me to Maryland,” Amal Torres told Fox News Digital. 

    The House Republican hopeful in Maryland’s third congressional district told Fox News she was working in the defense industry at Fort Meade as an intelligence analyst before she decided to run for office. Torres explained that she changed course after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, believing she could no longer serve “apolitically.”

    CORI BUSH WON’T DROP ‘DEFUND THE POLICE’ SLOGAN EVEN THOUGH DEMS FEAR IT’S POISON AT THE POLLS

    Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug. 17, 2021 (AP)

    “You have to be apolitical when you’re in the Department of Defense and you have to work under the president who’s the commander-in-chief, and you have to obey all orders above you. And that was up until Afghanistan. The fall of Afghanistan and watching the catastrophe that that was. I couldn’t serve apolitically in that organization anymore. I couldn’t fulfill the oath of service in true faith with what the president was doing,” she said, deciding to instead run for political office.

    “I knew I had to be a part of the solution and that’s why I switched to fulfilling a more political role and running for office at the congressional level. So that we could hold the executive branch accountable and be a part of that solution.”

    AFGHAN EVACUEES LEFT IN LIMBO HERE IN THE US 

    The former Air Force cryptologic intelligence analyst referred to the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan during the Taliban’s swift takeover of the country. The Taliban had moved quickly through the country ahead of the planned U.S. withdrawal last summer, catching the U.S. off guard and leading to chaotic scenes at Kabul airport including a suicide bombing that killed 13 American soldiers.

    Taliban fighters stand guard during women’s protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz) (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz)

    Torres, 31, says that she often tells people she “wasn’t lucky enough” to be born in the United States of America. Born in Mogadishu, Somalia, Torres came to the United States with her mother and siblings in the late 90s fleeing the civil war in Somalia. 

    Torres was raised by her mother in Aurora, Colorado, and enlisted in the Air Force after graduating from high school. While attending college, Torres “put a pause” on her studies to pursue the military. She went on to become an intelligence analyst for the Air Force for six years. Torres was deployed to the Middle East in support of the U.S. war on terror. 

    Amal Torres serving in the United States Air Force

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    Torres told Fox News Digital that residents are most concerned with rising crime.

    “It was heartbreaking to see that Marylanders have been so impacted by the crime that’s happening in the state.” she said.

    Noting that Baltimore has one of the highest crime rates in the country, Torres added that people want safer neighborhoods regardless of their political beliefs.

    A woman holds a Black Lives Matter flag during an event in remembrance of George Floyd and to call for justice for those who lost loved ones to the police violence outside the Minnesota State Capitol on May 24, 2021 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images) (Kerem Yucel / AFP)

    The killing of George Floyd in 2020 by a police officer sparked a national phenomenon as liberals pushed for the defunding of police departments and broader criminal justice reforms in major cities. 

    Baltimore has seen a general surge in crime, including violent crime. Homicides are up 11% and non-fatal shootings are up 30% compared to 2021, according to the Baltimore Sun.

    Baltimore has suffered 81 reported homicides so far in 2022, an increase compared to the same point in 2021. Baltimore has surpassed 300 homicides for six years in a row, and is on track to do so again.

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    Torres said that while she believes Black people’s lives matter, she made clear that the organization Black Lives Matter is “not dedicated to the lives of Black people or enabling any sort of productive outcome that supports protecting the lives of Black people.”

    “We need to do everything in our power to make sure that communities feel safe, and that they are not targeted for any reason by anybody,” Torres said.

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    Torres has also expressed support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ parental rights bill that bans teachers from discussing gender identity with young children and tweeted that she wants the policy pushed on the federal level.

    Casey and Ron DeSantis, the first lady and governor of Florida  (Florida governor’s office )

    “I like what DeSantis is doing because he’s holding educators accountable to the parents with regard to keeping material like gender and sexuality age-appropriate,” she added.

    Maryland’s third congressional district encompasses parts of Baltimore city, Baltimore County, Howard County, Montgomery County and Anne Arundel County.

    Torres will face off against Antonio Pitocco, Yuripzy Morgan, Lance Griffin, and Thomas Harris in the Republican primary on July 19. The winner will take on incumbent Rep. John Sarbanes, D-Md., in November.

    Baltimore streets shut down by drivers doing dangerous stunts as crime soars

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    Drivers shut down streets in Baltimore, Maryland by doing dangerous stunts in the middle of traffic Friday night.

    Footage shows a crowd of people surrounding a car in the middle of an intersection as it drives erratically, and cars can be seen stacked bumper-to-bumper in a standstill on both sides of the intersection.

    The Baltimore City chapter of the Fraternal order of Police (FOP) stated that officers arrived on the scene to find a city medical vehicle blaring its lights and sirens stuck in the traffic.

    BALTIMORE MAYOR WALKS AWAY AFTER REPORTER QUESTIONS HIS CRIME-DROP CLAIMS

    “Mayor [Brandon] Scott and [Police Commissioner Michael] Harrison’s approach to criminal behavior has led to lawlessness,” the union chapter tweeted Saturday. The good citizens of Baltimore don’t want what happened next to Little Italy last night (see video) and elsewhere every night!”

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    The incident comes as Baltimore faces a general surge in crime, including violent crime. Homicides are up 11% and non-fatal shootings are up 30% compared to 2021, according to the Baltimore Sun.

    Baltimore has suffered 81 reported homicides so far in 2022, an increase compared to the same point in 2021. Baltimore has surpassed 300 homicides for six years in a row, and is on track to do so again.

    Baltimore doctor shot during morning drive to work

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    An attempted carjacking in Baltimore left a doctor with gunshot wounds on his morning commute Friday, according to local reports.

    Dr. Madhu Subramanian, a 38-year-old surgeon at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and an assistant professor of surgery, was on his way to work around 7 a.m. 

    City police said they found a man injured on the 1200 block of East 36th Street in Northeast Baltimore a few minutes later.

    Dr. Madhu Subramanian, a 38-year-old surgeon at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and an assistant professor of surgery, was on his way to work around 7 a.m.  when he was shot during a carjacking. (Johns Hopkins Medicine)

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    Subramanian specializes in acute care surgery, trauma surgery, surgical critical care, burn care and general surgery, according to the hospital’s website.

    Johns Hopkins leaders said Subramanian has already been released in an email to staff obtained by the Baltimore Sun.

    “With his permission, we can share that Dr. Madhu Subramanian, a trauma and acute care surgeon, was on his way to work at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center when the incident occurred near the 3600 block of Loch Raven Boulevard,” Johns Hopkins Medicine CEO Paul Rothman and Johns Hopkins Health System President Kevin Sowers wrote, according to the paper. “Thankfully, Dr. Subramanian was not seriously injured and has been treated and released.”

    The shooting comes as Baltimore and other large American cities see skyrocketing violence, with robberies, shootings and homicides on the rise. Later Friday, police said they responded to another shooting and found two young men, ages 19 and 20, with gunshot wounds. Both of their injuries were considered not life-threatening, according to authorities.

    Dr. Joseph Sakran, a fellow Johns Hopkins surgery, addressed his colleague’s shooting in a Twitter thread Friday after he said he treated his Subramanian’s injuries.

    “We are so grateful he survived this horrific incident and will be OK,” he wrote.

    “In the heat of the moment, we often compartmentalize the emotion that goes along with caring for these injured patients. And we do that in order to effectively make one methodical decision after the other to save a person’s life. How do you do that when it’s one of your own?”

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    Sakran, who survived a shooting himself as a teenager, added that “Gun Violence is a Public Health Crisis that we face daily in Baltimore, and communities all across America” and called on society to “do better.”

    Anyone with information on the shooting was asked to contact Baltimore detectives at (410) 396-2444. 

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    How much do Baltimore taxpayers spend per student?

    Baltimore public schools spend more than $17,000 in taxpayer funds per student.

    The district ranks No. 3 for the most money spent per student in Maryland, according to a 2019 report from the Maryland Department of Legislative Services.

    The $17,493 total spent per pupil is broken down into $1,482 in federal funding, $12,223 in state funding, $3,703 in local funding, and $85 in “miscellaneous” funding.

    MARYLAND GOV. HOGAN CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO BALTIMORE HS FAILING STUDENTS, OTHERS CALL FOR SHUTDOWN

    The total budget for the Baltimore school district is $1.2 billion, 70% of which comes from taxpayer funds, according to Fox 4

    Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts (Credit: Google Maps)

    Of the 100 largest school districts in the U.S., Baltimore gets the fifth most funding per pupil, a 2020 U.S. Census report shows.

    Baltimore has a total of 83,800 enrolled public school students, with 11,273 full-time staff members, 914 certified instructional teachers and 191 total public schools. More than 83% of the students are eligible for free and reduced-price meals.

    BALTIMORE HS STUDENTS FAILS ALL BUT 3 CLASSES OVER 4 YEARS, RANKS NEAR TOP HALF OF CLASS

    Augusta Fells, a West Baltimore public school that recently came under fire after Fox 45 published an investigation that found scores of students at the school are failing and may have to repeat grades, gets $5.3 million from taxpayers each year, the outlet reported. The investigations have prompted questions about how the school’s funds are being spent.

    Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday called for an investigation into the school.

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    “This is something I’m going to ask the inspector general to immediately look into,” he told Fox 45. “They have to get to the bottom of this and find out who’s responsible.”

    Baltimore tops 50 homicides in first three months of 2020, activists say city ‘was never like this’

    Only three months into the new year and more than 50 people have been killed in the Baltimore city area.

    The Baltimore Police Department announced Sunday that 19-year-old Graham Blake was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 26-year-old man on Friday, one of four shootings in Charm City Friday night that left two men dead and four injured.

    At least 52 homicides were been reported throughout the city as of March 2, according to a tally by The Baltimore Sun. The major northeastern city in Maryland of more than 600,000 people is one of the most dangerous in America, according to the FBI.

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    The city ended 2019 with 348 homicides, its fifth year in a row with more than 300 slayings and the second-deadliest year on record.

    Baltimore ended 2019 with at least 348 reported homicides, according to data compiled by The Baltimore Sun.
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    The city’s string of killings so far in 2020 has Baltimore already on track to surpass 300 homicides for yet another yet, according to FOX45.

    “This city was never like this, even when it was at its worst,” activist Tyree Moorehead told FOX45 on Sunday. “That’s scary because there’s people whose family members haven’t been shot yet that have a bullet with their name on it and don’t even know it.”

    Residents and community activists are hoping to bring back a community that’s disengaged. The Rev. Alvin Hathaway told FOX45 too many in the city are going around treating the violence “like this is average, like nothing is different,” and that community members need to step up and “be the change.”

    “You have a whole host of people who are feeling like they’re afraid,” Hathaway told FOX45. “This is red flag time. We’ve got to call all hands on deck and pull the city together.”

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    Last month, a former state corrections official who had been under investigation was killed and two fugitive task force officers were wounded in a shooting at a Baltimore apartment complex after trying to serve a warrant out of Pennsylvania for attempted murder.

    Law enforcement personnel work at the scene which appears to show a body covered under a white blanket outside of an apartment, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, in Baltimore.
    (Ulysses Muñoz/The Baltimore Sun via AP)

    The shootings happened as officials have increased the presence of federal law enforcement officers in the city to stymie gang-related activity and violent crime as a whole.

    In December, the Department of Justice announced a plan to increase the overall number of federal agents in Baltimore and add more officers to task forces. Months earlier, the department unveiled a task force focused on gun- and drug-related crime in the city.

    Task force members, including agents from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, work from a shared location to increase coordination. The task force to which the wounded officers belong also includes Secret Service agents.

    Baltimore has been in the throes of a steep rise in violent crime since 2015, when the homicide rate spiked amid the city’s worst rioting in decades following the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody.

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    Over the summer, Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young said local leadership isn’t to blame for the city’s increasing homicide rate.

    “I’m not committing the murders,” he said then. In June at an anti-gun violence rally, the mayor advocated organized fights as a means to solve disputes without using weapons.

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    Baltimore ex-mayor releases apology video ahead of Thursday sentencing: ‘I really messed up’

    Catherine Pugh, a former mayor of Baltimore who is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday following her conviction on federal tax evasion and conspiracy charges, apologizes for her crimes in a 13-minute video that went public Wednesday.

    “I accept responsibility,” Pugh says in the video, among the public materials being reviewed the judge who will determine her punishment, according to Baltimore’s FOX 45.

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    “I accept total responsibility. I pled guilty and I’m sorry. I don’t know any other words that could be strong. I am so sorry,” Pugh says.

    “I accept total responsibility. I pled guilty and I’m sorry. I don’t know any other words that could be strong. I am so sorry.” 

    — Catherine Pugh, former Baltimore mayor

    The former mayor, who will turn 70 on March 10, resigned last May after taking an indefinite leave of absence a month earlier, claiming health problems, as pressure mounted on her following allegations that she profited from questionable sales of large quantities of the “Healthy Holly” children’s books she authored.

    She was ultimately indicted last November on 11 counts of charges that included tax evasion, conspiracy and fraud, and pleaded guilty to four charges the following day.

    The collapse of Pugh’s mayoralty was another black eye for Baltimore, a crime- and poverty-plagued city that saw a previous mayor, Sheila Dixon, resign in 2010 after her conviction on embezzling gift cards intended for poor people.

    Dixon later tried to regain the mayor’s office after completing her probation but was defeated by Pugh in the city’s 2016 Democratic primary. The mayor who served between Dixon and Pugh – Stephanie Rawlings-Blake — decided not to seek re-election in 2016, following a tumultuous term that included criticism for her handling of riots in the city in reaction to the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died while in police custody.

    According to authorities, Pugh received $500,000 from the University of Maryland Medical System, where she was a board member, for 100,000 copies of her books, but there was no contract, and the system described some of the purchases as “grants” in federal filings. She returned her most recent $100,000 payment and described the deal as a “regrettable mistake.”

    Health care provider Kaiser Permanente also disclosed that it had paid Pugh’s Healthy Holly LLC about $114,000 between 2015 and 2018 for about 20,000 copies of her books. Pugh oversaw Baltimore’s spending board in 2017, when the city awarded a $48 million contract to the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan for the Mid-Atlantic States Inc.

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    “I messed up. I really messed up,” Pugh says in the video, according to The Baltimore Sun.

    “I messed up. I really messed up.”

    — Catherine Pugh, former Baltimore mayor

    The video also includes biographical details about Pugh, as well as statements from others who defend Pugh’s character. Among them are the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, who made his remarks at Pugh’s mayoral inauguration. (Cummings died last October at age 68.)

    Prosecutors have recommended a sentence of five years in prison for Pugh, according to FOX 45.

    Fox News’ Barnini Chakraborty contributed to this story.

    America’s top 5 deadliest cities

    America suffered an estimated 16,214 murders in 2018, according to the most recent FBI crime statistics. So what are the top five deadliest major cities in the U.S.?

    5. Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Aerial drone photo State Capitol Park Baton Rouge Louisiana

    Aerial drone photo State Capitol Park Baton Rouge Louisiana

    Baton Rouge, Louisiana’s state capital, is the nation’s fifth deadliest city. It saw 35.1 homicide deaths per 100,000 residents in 2018, which is 10 places higher than Chicago’s murder rate. In total, 87 people were murdered in Baton Rouge in 2018, according to The Advocate, which was a decrease from 2017’s 106 murders.

    4. New Orleans, Louisiana

    The downtown and surrounding areas of New Orleans, Louisiana shot from an altitude of about 1000 feet during a helicopter photo flight.

    The downtown and surrounding areas of New Orleans, Louisiana shot from an altitude of about 1000 feet during a helicopter photo flight.

    Louisiana is the only state to have two cities in the top five deadliest U.S. cities list. New Orleans saw a murder rate of 37.1 per 100,000 in 2018. That year, New Orleans saw 146 murders and the lowest homicide rate since 1971, according to NOLA.com. In 2016, New Orleans Saints star Will Smith was shot in this city and killed.

    3. Detroit, Michigan

    A man from the United Kingdom who was previously deported from the U.S. was arrested last month after swimming in a wetsuit from across the Detroit River into Michigan, according to federal prosecutors.

    A man from the United Kingdom who was previously deported from the U.S. was arrested last month after swimming in a wetsuit from across the Detroit River into Michigan, according to federal prosecutors.
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    Detroit, in 2018, saw 38.9 murders per 100,000 people. The number of murders was down to 261 over 267 the previous year. However, the city saw 2,008 violent crimes (murder, rape, assault and robbery) per 100,000 people, giving it the highest violent crime rate among cities with a population greater than 100,000, according to The Detroit News.

    2. Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore ended 2019 with at least 348 reported homicides, according to data compiled by The Baltimore Sun.

    Baltimore ended 2019 with at least 348 reported homicides, according to data compiled by The Baltimore Sun.
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    Baltimore saw 51 homicides per 100,000 people in 2018, more than five times the national average, for a grand total of 309 homicide victims. For perspective that’s 20 more than were murdered in New York City the same year, despite having less than 10 percent of New York City’s population. Though Baltimore’s murder rate remained high, its overall crime rate dropped by nearly 60% between the mid 1990s and the mid 2010s.

    1. St. Louis, Missouri

    St. Louis downtown city skyline at twilight.

    St. Louis downtown city skyline at twilight.

    St. Louis earned the title of deadliest city in America with a murder rate of 60.9 per 100,000 in 2018. In that year, 186 were slaughtered in the city of a population of about 318,000.