A pop-up market in Baltimore City is celebrating the best of Asian American talent and entrepreneurship this month as part of Asian American Pacific Islander Month.The event is also a cause for activism. Every weekend, a hub of business at Whitehall Market spotlight Asian American Pacific Islanders, or AAPI for short. I really want to express solidarity with the broader AAPI community, said vendor Priya Narasimhan. It s just nice to have some visibility for who we are that we re in the community, we re makers that you probably already know. The visibility comes at a critical time this year in celebration and in protest. It d be tone deaf not to recognize the disturbing and dramatic increase in anti-Asian hate, said organizer Denis Sgouros.An increase in hate, but also population. Asian Americans are now the fastest-growing demographic in the nation, according to Pew Research. This is not only our way of showing that and expressing it, but it s also just our way of coming toge
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. Officers with the Baltimore County Police Department on Saturday morning shot and killed an active shooter, allowing firefighters to contain a related two-alarm fire on the scene. In a press conference, police spokesperson Joy Stewart said that a total of three people had di
Baltimore County police identified the victims in Saturday morning s active shooting in Woodlawn.County police said they received numerous calls around 6:40 a.m. for a shooting and fire in the 7500 block of Maury Road.Police said officers found Everton Brown, 56, of Woodlawn, in the parking lot armed with a handgun. Police said the officer ordered Brown to drop the handgun numerous times. Police said Brown did not comply and the officer and other officers who arrived fired their service weapons at Brown. Four officers fired at Brown until they were able to take him into custody.Police said officers recovered a handgun next to Brown and a large knife on the hood of one of his vehicles. The handgun was registered to Brown.Brown was taken to a hospital, where he died.Officers then found three victims in the parking lot and another victim inside a house suffering from stab and gunshot wounds.Police said a preliminary investigation indicates Brown forced his way into a neighboring ho
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Four people were killed and at least one was injured in a shooting and fire early Saturday morning in Woodlawn, authorities said, adding the suspect was shot by police and was among the dead.
Authorities said it was not immediately clear what led to the violence on a residential street in suburban Baltimore. They identified the dead suspect in a later news release as Everton Brown, 56, and said he lived on the street.
The police statement added that four officers discharged their firearms and all had been placed on routine administrative duty per departmental policy. It added that police body worn cameras recorded footage of the scene officers encountered and it showed one home was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived.