Artesha Moses died waiting. The 19-year-old woman reported to police on March 3 that her boyfriend, James Summerville, 18, assaulted her. The police obtained an arrest warrant for Summerville, but it ? like many others ? was never served. Exactly 24 days later, Summerville stabbed Moses to death.

A backlog of 44,000 unserved warrants, like Summerville?s, is one of the foremost problems contributing to domestic violence in Baltimore, according to a report released by the Baltimore City Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team on Wednesday.