On a summer evening in Baltimore, the life of a promising young man was violently cut short. Marcus Tafari Samuel Downer, a 23-year-old Black male, was shot and killed on Sunday, July 26, 2015. The fatal incident occurred around 7:43 p.m. in the 5500 block of Rubin Avenue, a location tragically close to his grandmother's home. Downer, a graduate of the Baltimore School for the Arts with dreams of becoming an actor, suffered multiple gunshot wounds in what his mother described as a barrage of bul
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