Wayne Smith, a 42-year-old Black male from Baltimore, was recorded as dying on December 3, 2009, after a long trail of violence that began years earlier. Records of Baltimore’s 2009 homicide tally list him as a shooting victim from 1998, suggesting his death in 2009 came after injuries that reached back more than a decade, ending at an address on the 2200 block of East Fayette Street.
The entry’s phrasing—shot in 1998, died in 2009—casts his final day in a grim, delayed aftermath
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