‘This Loss Is Ours As A City’ Baltimore Hockey Team Mourns Two Young Members, Murdered In East Baltimore Shooting

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — In a question of caller unit involving young radical successful Baltimore, 22-year-old Abe Ludden and 20-year-old Davon ‘Peanut’ Barnes were changeable to decease connected East Monument Street Sunday, according to Mark Conner who coached some young men done The Tender Bridge, a non-profit, and the Baltimore Banners hockey team.

Mark Conner coached Davon ‘Peanut’ Barnes who died successful a triple shooting Sunday connected East Monument St. “So galore of the condolences commencement retired with, ‘We’re atrocious for your loss,’ but this nonaccomplishment belongs to the full city.’” @wjz pic.twitter.com/5FC4eLRm1s

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 16, 2021

Our Banners household mislaid 2 of our ain implicit the weekend. We convey the hockey assemblage for the outpouring of enactment this week. Please see helping with ceremonial funds successful this pugnacious clip https://t.co/Fs4kZu3ZXP

— Baltimore Banners Ice Hockey (@BMoreBanners) September 14, 2021

“Peanut implicit the past fewer months was showing up connected Monument, and we were concerned. We were concerned. The 1 happening that we can’t supply our kids is simply a sanctuary—a 24/7 protective bubble. It pains america each to person mislaid some of these boys,” Conner told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. He told Hellgren erstwhile helium thinks of Peanut, helium instantly remembers “a kid flying down the crystal with a large grin connected his face. He loved being portion of our family, and helium loved playing hockey.”

Tonight connected #WJZ astatine 6, we’ll speech to a manager who mislaid 2 of his hockey players to unit successful Baltimore this week. He’s raising wealth for their funerals and the non-profit that worked with them and different young people. https://t.co/WFj1i7qG5c @wjz

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 16, 2021

A 15-year-old was besides wounded successful the shooting, which remains unsolved. It was 1 of respective successful East Baltimore successful the past 5 days wherever bullets person struck victims arsenic young arsenic 12.

A idiosyncratic runs from the country moments aft 4 children were changeable past nighttime 1700 N. Milton successful East Baltimore. Commissioner says victims see 14yo duplicate sisters—one walked to the hospital. @wjz pic.twitter.com/L0Ky1pbRGh

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 15, 2021

Another teen changeable successful Baltimore…19yo struck aggregate times this morning. It follows the shooting of 4 young radical successful East Baltimore Tuesday—with a 12yo and 14yo duplicate sisters among the victims. https://t.co/7TZrrvC3oS pic.twitter.com/IYTysoPbFM

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 16, 2021

“For us, the ngo is springiness these kids an accidental to consciousness amended astir themselves. Take them disconnected the streets for a fewer hours each Saturday and each Sunday and effort to impart a amended knowing of the satellite and what the possibilities mightiness be,” Conner said. “A fig of kids would archer america they had friends who were changeable and killed, but this is the archetypal clip it has straight affected immoderate of our kids.”

Coach Conner worked with Peanut for a decennary and with Abe for 5 years. He acceptable up a GoFundMe that has raised much than $11,000 for the funerals. Any wealth near implicit volition spell to The Tender Bridge.

“We are surrogate parents successful immoderate respects truthful it is the aforesaid arsenic losing your ain child,” Conner said.

Several parents successful East Baltimore told WJZ this week that programs similar this are needed — that determination is small for kids to do. “We request radical to get progressive arsenic mentors,” Conner told Hellgren.

The Tender Bridge has seen an outpouring of enactment and wants to marque definite these young men are ne'er forgotten.

“So galore of the condolences commencement retired with, ‘We’re atrocious for your loss,’ but this nonaccomplishment belongs to the full city. This nonaccomplishment is ours arsenic a metropolis and each the radical and each who unrecorded successful it, and we request to statesman to deliberation astir each these unspeakable things successful conscionable that way. It’s affecting america arsenic a household and arsenic a community—the full of the citizenry successful Baltimore.”

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