Dominic M. Leone, a 50-year-old Baltimore City Councilman with 15 years on the council, was fatally shot inside Baltimore City Hall on April 13, 1976. The shooting occurred around midday when a 35-year-old man, Charles Hopkins, entered the municipal building reportedly distraught over financial troubles and an impending eviction. Hopkins had been ejected from a Board of Estimate meeting the day before after demanding help.

Hopkins first shot a mayoral secretary, Kathleen Nolan, then went to the council area asking for Councilman Leone. Leone was struck by two bullets in the mid-section and was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after being taken from the scene. Hopkins then took Councilman Carroll J. Fitzgerald hostage; Fitzgerald and a police officer, Thomas Gaither, were also wounded. Officers cornered Hopkins on a seventh-floor office and shot him multiple times; he was taken to a hospital in critical condition. The attack appears to have been driven by Hopkins’s grievances with the city over his personal circumstances, though no clear targeted motive for Leone was stated.

Does anyone have additional details about Leone’s work on the council or witnesses to the April 13 incident?