In the early morning hours of August 30, 2019, Karen Lovings, 51, was fatally shot inside a home on the 1600 block of East 29th Street in Northeast Baltimore. Police were flagged down about 3:13 a.m.; officers entering the residence found Lovings dead from a gunshot wound and three other people with gunshot injuries. Two victims were treated at the scene and taken to a local hospital; a 22-year-old woman who lived at the home later sought treatment at a hospital.

Investigators noted officers had responded to the same address the night before for a reported dispute. Detectives identified 21-year-old Keith Wilkenson as a suspect and a warrant was issued naming him armed and dangerous. By August 2021 Wilkenson was in custody and charged with first-degree murder in Lovings’s death along with multiple firearms and related counts; a trial was set for December 13, 2021, after a plea offer was rejected by his defense.

What does anyone who lived in that neighborhood at the time remember about activity around the 1600 block of East 29th Street in late August 2019?