4th Baltimore Ceasefire scheduled for this weekend

Organizers are urging a three-day period of peace during the fourth Baltimore Ceasefire event of the year this weekend. Branded with the slogan, “Nobody kill anybody,” the quarterly call for a weekendwithouthomicidesreturnsFridayandruns through Sunday. The city has endured 259 homicides in 2018, according to the Baltimore Police Department. The count was previously higher, but police reclassified two killings, and a third victim who was originally listed as dead was not actually killed. In the last three months, there have been 96 killings, according to data collected byTheBaltimore Sun. The grassroots movement celebrated its one-year anniversary in August, while the Ceasefire weekend in February was the first in which no one was killed over the designated 72-hour period. This weekend’s Ceasefire will include a series of events aimed at promoting peace, including a unity concert by Paul Laurence Dunbar High School students, a remembrance event in Brooklyn, chances for participants to make and share art related to peace, and a peace walk.