A new wave of shootings in Baltimore left six dead and a dozen others wounded over the Memorial Day weekend.

Baltimore’s shooting fatality rate is now higher than in any other month since June 2007, and there have been 33 deaths so far in May. The violence underscores the city’s sharp racial tensions in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death last month, and the riots that followed his death.

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