In the cold of a Baltimore winter, the life of 21-year-old Thomas Joseph Mackenney was cut short. On January 5, 2007, he was found fatally shot in the 5900 block of Northwood Drive, a quiet street near Chinquapin Run. An African-American male, Mackenney became one of the early victims in a year that would see a surge of violence grip the city, with his death marking another grim statistic in the growing homicide count.
The investigation into his killing was immediately hampered by the per
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