BALTIMORE — A narrow East Baltimore street of marble stoops and boarded up rowhomes, known for drug dealing, is among the latest scenes punctuating the city’s unrelenting gun violence.
Police say a gunman opened fire in the 700 block of Rose Street at midday Tuesday, spraying more than 60 bullets onto the street with an assault rifle, killing 25-year-old Chrone Cummings and injuring three other people.
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