The Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement hosted a Brooklyn Healing Day event Saturday, three months after the July 2 shooting that left two dead and 28 others wounded.
Community volunteers gathered to create flower beds and plant flowers and two memorial trees for the victims of the shooting, likely the largest mass shooting in Baltimore’s history. The trees were planted in two locations for Aaliyah Gonzalez, 18, and Kylis Fagbemi, 20, who were killed in the shooting.
Volunteers made wooden boxes that were filled with dirt, daffodil bulbs, colorful pansies and resilient echinacea.
Let's Thrive Youth Director Tyric Byer helps fellow volunteers carry newly made flower beds to homes in Brooklyn's Healing Day event Saturday.
A volunteer builds a flower box.
A member of Baltimore Safe Streets carries a new flower bed to a home in Brooklyn.
Community volunteers fill wheelbarrows with soil destined for new flower beds.Youth volunteers deliver flowers for new beds.Friends and family members of Aaliyah Gonzalez, who was killed in the Brooklyn Homes shooting in July, embrace at a tree planting ceremony in her honor.Family members of Aaliyah Gonzalez, who was killed in the Brooklyn Homes shooting in July, plant a tree in her memory.Tameka Lynbrith, mother of Kylis Fagbemi, who was killed in the Brooklyn Homes shooting in July, is comforted by Janell Martin, director of Let's Thrive Baltimore, after the memorial tree planting for Fagbemi.Crystal Gonzalez, mother of Aaliyah Gonzalez, watches a tree being planted in Aaliyah's memory at the Healing Day event.
J.M. Giordano is a Baltimore-based photographer.
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