Michael S. Clinkscale, {the teenager}’s lawyer, stated his shopper informed him that he didn’t have a weapon on the social gathering. He emphasised that {the teenager} had not been charged with murder or tried murder.
“He’s an excellent younger man and he’s saying he was afraid like everybody else” on the block social gathering, Mr. Clinkscale stated in an interview on Friday. “He was operating away from the taking pictures. He was truly shot within the decrease left leg.”
The taking pictures raised questions on why there have been no cops on the block social gathering across the Brooklyn Houses, the general public housing advanced that was on the middle of the occasion. Though it doesn’t have a set date, the social gathering has been held each summer season for 27 years, and officers have been current final 12 months.
Baltimore’s performing police commissioner, Richard Worley, stated at a information convention on Monday that the division discovered of the social gathering’s existence solely “a number of hours” earlier than the taking pictures, which befell simply after 12:30 a.m. on Sunday. He stated that a number of weapons had been used.
Commissioner Worley stated that, in previous years, the division had discovered ads or social media mentions of the social gathering and had despatched officers to observe it. However this 12 months, he stated, analysts and one of many division’s prime intelligence officers had not discovered any of the posts. He additionally famous that nobody had utilized for a allow for the occasion, although he acknowledged that had additionally been the case in earlier years.