Increasing number of Baltimore shootings becoming fatal years later
By: Phil Davis & Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — Quinton Rodgers’ death Saturday from injuries he suffered during a 2004 shooting is one of a growing number of homicide cases in Baltimore in which nonfatal shootings turn into murder investigations a year or more after the initial incident.
In 2018, 13 people died from injuries they’d suffered in shootings in the city the previous years, increasing the overall homicide rate.
As the number of fatalities in the city continues to rise — there were 309 last year — why do some who survived being shot sometimes die years later from related injuries?
