WASHINGTON - Baltimore City and Prince George's County accounted for over 75 percent of all Maryland murders in the past two decades, despite making up less than a third of the population, a Capital News Service analysis shows.
In total, 8,787 of the 11,375 murders from 1985-2006 in Maryland took place in one of the two areas, according to Maryland State Police uniform crime reports.
Rosie Gross lived in Baltimore during these years, 30 in total, and has seen a lot of changes in her southwest city neighborhood.
Walking home one night in early March, Gross' 18-year-old grandson, Deandre Davis, was shot. He's since...
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