John Jay Christen, a 20-year-old Black man from Baltimore, was killed in the early hours of September 15, 2007, in a burst of gunfire that tore through the Top Shelf Lounge on Fredhilton Pass. It was the kind of night when the city feels half-awake�music, dim lights, people packed into a room to forget the week�and then, suddenly, everything turns sharp and frantic.
According to a contemporaneous report compiling that night�s violence, Christen was shot multiple times inside the lounge a
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