Police at Greenmount Avenue and 32nd Street Sunday following Saturday afternoon shooting one block north.
By FERN SHEN and ELIZABETH SUMAN; Photos by FERN SHEN
Greenmount Avenue was bustling with shoppers, strollers, churchgoers — and conspicuous numbers of uniformed Baltimore City police Sunday, following a Saturday afternoon shooting there, the second homicide in 72 hours in the north Baltimore neighborhood.
“Everybody is talking about this, especially ’cause it happened in the daytime,” said Damita Johns, as she carried a bag of take-out food on 33rd Street, near the place where a 21-year-old man was shot Saturday. “You think a place like this is safe, but I’m actually looking over my shoulder.”
On Thursday, 72-year-old Afro-American Newspaper security guard Charles Bowman was shot and killed while he waited for his take out food at Yau Brothers on Greenmount Avenue and 29th Street in Better Waverly. Bowman, who ate from Yau’s almost every day, stopped at the restaurant around 12:00 a.m.. on his way to work the 1-9 a.m. shift at the AFRO security desk, when he was shot by two masked adult males robbing the restaurant.
A second man, Damon Anthony Minor, 21, was murdered around 2 p.m. on Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of the Osprey gas station on Greenmount Avenue and 33rd Street, after running from an altercation in the Friendly Fried Chicken restaurant nearby. The Brew was the first to learn Minor’s identity from Detective Nicole Monroe, who added that Minor was 21-year-old African-American male who was on parole at the time he was murdered. Minor’s asailants have not been identified.
Police do not believe there is a connection between the two shootings, which occured two days and four blocks apart. At least three homicides took place in Baltimore City over the weekend (two on Sunday) and the Baltimore City Police Department has reported eight shootings since Thursday on its Twitter feed.
The Waverly neighborhood where the Thursday and Saturday shootings occured is known for attracting a mix of visitors and businesses, ranging from weekend shoppers buying produce from the 32nd Street farmers’ market to longtime locals getting cuts at Blackwell’s Barbershop, across the street from Yau Brothers.
Visit AFRO’s website for funeral arrangements for Charles Bowman.
Baltimore Police were everywhere in Baltimore's Waverly Sunday following the latest daylight homicide.
Carryout where 72-year-old Charles Bowman was shot Thursday.
Street sculpture in Waverly. "We all swim in the same sea."
Gas station at Greenmount and 33rd Street where a man was shot and killed Saturday.
Darker than Blue Cafe, part of some recent revitalization in the neighborhood.
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