Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said Friday that the city’s law enforcement’s top priority is to make an arrest in connection with the shooting death of a local anti-violence outreach.
Kenyell Wilson, 44, died Thursday after driving himself to a hospital with gunshot wounds.
The man was a worker at Safe Streets Cherry Hill, a program that operates to stop violence and favor peaceful outcomes for every day’s disputes.
“Safe Streets has a special place in my heart and I consider the Violence Interrupters to bravely serve this program as a part of my family,” the mayor said.
“Tonight, our brother Kenyell Wilson became a victim of the gun violence he worked every day to prevent.”
“I am deeply saddened and angered that ‘Benny’s life was taken in a weak cowardly act.”
The Cherry Hill program had just celebrated a year with no homicides last week.
