In the summer of 2015, a wave of violence gripped the city of Baltimore, a tragic period marked by a significant increase in homicides. It was during this tumultuous time that the life of Ivan Jerome Cox Jr., a 21-year-old African-American man, was cut short. On June 29, 2015, in the 3000 block of Elizabeth Avenue, a neighborhood already scarred by a series of violent crimes, Cox was fatally shot. His death added to a grim statistic, becoming one of 344 homicides in what would be one of the dead
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