City council members held a second hearing Wednesday night to understand what led to the explosion at the CSX Transportation coal facility late last year.
Fresh data from the city's Open Baltimore website shows 179 homicides were recorded in the first six months of this year, putting the city on pace for one of the deadliest years in Baltimore's history.
Tyree Moorehead, a Baltimore ex-gang member who uses graffiti to designate no shoot zones to discourage gun violence around the city was shot in his back, neck and jaw on Wednesday.