‘This Loss Is Ours As A City’ Baltimore Hockey Team Mourns Two Young Members, Murdered In East Baltimore Shooting – CBS Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — In a wave of current violence involving younger folks in Baltimore, 22-year-old Abe Ludden and 20-year-old Davon ‘Peanut’ Barnes had been shot to demise on East Monument Road Sunday, in response to Mark Conner who coached each younger males by The Tender Bridge, a non-profit, and the Baltimore Banners hockey workforce.
Mark Conner coached Davon ‘Peanut’ Barnes who died in a triple capturing Sunday on East Monument St. “So lots of the condolences begin out with, ‘We’re sorry on your loss,’ however this loss belongs to the entire metropolis.’” @wjz pic.twitter.com/5FC4eLRm1s
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— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 16, 2021
Our Banners household misplaced two of our personal over the weekend. We thank the hockey neighborhood for the outpouring of help this week. Please contemplate serving to with funeral funds on this robust time https://t.co/Fs4kZu3ZXP
— Baltimore Banners Ice Hockey (@BMoreBanners) September 14, 2021
“Peanut over the previous few months was exhibiting up on Monument, and we had been involved. We had been involved. The one factor that we are able to’t present our children is a sanctuary—a 24/7 protecting bubble. It pains us all to have misplaced each of those boys,” Conner advised WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. He advised Hellgren when he thinks of Peanut, he instantly remembers “a child flying down the ice with an enormous smile on his face. He cherished being a part of our household, and he cherished enjoying hockey.”
Tonight on #WJZ at 6, we’ll speak to a coach who misplaced two of his hockey gamers to violence in Baltimore this week. He’s elevating cash for his or her funerals and the non-profit that labored with them and different younger folks. https://t.co/WFj1i7qG5c @wjz
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 16, 2021
A 15-year-old was additionally wounded within the capturing, which stays unsolved. It was one in all a number of in East Baltimore up to now 5 days the place bullets have struck victims as younger as 12.
An individual runs from the scene moments after 4 youngsters had been shot final evening 1700 N. Milton in East Baltimore. Commissioner says victims embrace 14yo twin sisters—one walked to the hospital. @wjz pic.twitter.com/L0Ky1pbRGh
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— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 15, 2021
One other teenager shot in Baltimore…19yo struck a number of instances this morning. It follows the capturing of 4 younger folks in East Baltimore Tuesday—with a 12yo and 14yo twin sisters among the many victims. https://t.co/7TZrrvC3oS pic.twitter.com/IYTysoPbFM
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 16, 2021
“For us, the mission is give these youngsters a chance to really feel higher about themselves. Take them off the streets for a number of hours each Saturday and each Sunday and attempt to impart a greater understanding of the world and what the probabilities may be,” Conner stated. “Various youngsters would inform us they’d pals who had been shot and killed, however that is the primary time it has instantly affected any of our children.”
Coach Conner labored with Peanut for a decade and with Abe for 5 years. He arrange a GoFundMe that has raised greater than $11,000 for the funerals. Any cash left over will go to The Tender Bridge.
“We’re surrogate dad and mom in some respects so it’s the similar as dropping your individual little one,” Conner stated.
A number of dad and mom in East Baltimore advised WJZ this week that applications like this are wanted — that there’s little for teenagers to do. “We’d like folks to get entangled as mentors,” Conner advised Hellgren.
The Tender Bridge has seen an outpouring of help and needs to verify these younger males are by no means forgotten.
“So lots of the condolences begin out with, ‘We’re sorry on your loss,’ however this loss belongs to the entire metropolis. This loss is ours as a metropolis and all of the folks and all who dwell in it, and we have to start to consider all these horrible issues in simply that approach. It’s affecting us as a household and as a neighborhood—the entire of the citizenry in Baltimore.”
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You’ll be able to donate to The Tender Bridge and skim extra in regards to the group right here: http://thetenderbridge.org.
