Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon said she’s outraged that several city residents were caught on tape laughing at a teenager while he was shot inside a Baltimore carry-out.
Dixon said the video was shown during a recent closed GunStat meeting and has caused the mayor to ask for a study concerning teens being tried as juveniles, not adults.
The video shows a teenager waiting in line at an unidentified carry-out, the mayor said.
“There were two young ladies leaning up against the wall at a carry-out,” she said at Wednesday’s meeting of the Baltimore City Criminal Justice Coordinating Council.
“A guy came in … and held a gun to the head of the individual putting the order in. In the meanwhile, the two young ladies were standing back laughing.”
The mayor said the video showed the scene turning violent and bloody as a 17-year-old shot the victim.
“Then another guy came in, another juvenile, and they began to rob him and shot him in the knee,” the mayor said.
“Right there. Girls standing there. They continued to laugh. Blood’s all over him. People come back in and get their orders. It’s like business as usual. Clearly … we have some very mentally disturbed individuals in the city.”
Neither Dixon’s office nor the state’s attorney’s office would release basic information about the shooting, such as date or location, because they said the case was pending. Both offices also refused to release a copy of the video to the media.
Dixon said she wanted studies done on reverse waivers and the recommendations made to judges about whether suspects should be tried as adults or as juveniles.
