Following a day in which 11 people were shot, three fatally, Mayor Catherine Pugh attributed a recent spike in violence to an ongoing war between drug dealers.
“There are at least seven different products being sold over in West Baltimore,” said Pugh, attributing this information to the fact that “the streets always talk.” “If you ride through, you can hear, ‘We got this, I got this, I got this,’ and everybody’s territorial.
“People are protecting their territory with guns.”
At a press conference called to address the violence, Acting Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle agreed.
“A lot of this stuff is connected,” he said. “The common denominator is the demand for drugs in this city.”
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