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On April 10, 2019, 21-year-old Diarah Lashay Baxter was fatally shot during a triple shooting in the 1800 block of North Chester Street in East Baltimore at about 10:41 p.m. The same incident killed 20-year-old Marcus Alston and wounded a 19-year-old man with a gunshot to his leg. Baxter, known to family and friends as Ma Ma, was a Digital Harbor High School graduate who loved family, basketball, and her job.

Investigators concluded the shooting that killed Baxter was an act of retribution and linked it to a retaliatory quadruple shooting the next day in the Mondawmin area. Evidence showed the vehicle of Donte Patterson was at both scenes; Patterson was later arrested and charged in connection with the April 11 shooting. The chain of violence left two families grieving and a neighborhood shaken.

Did anyone in the area that week see or hear anything that could help explain how the chain of events began?