In the autumn of 2008, a young man's life was cut short on a street in Baltimore, a city grappling with a high rate of violent crime. On the evening of October 2nd, 21-year-old Modesto Smith was in the 700 block of Allegany Place when he was fatally shot. The incident marked another grim statistic in a month that saw 20 homicides in the city, with the vast majority, including Smith's, remaining unsolved by the month's end.
The death of Modesto Smith, a male, became emblematic of the chall
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