Heath Street in The Examiner

[Donnie Fair]

Tuesday night's shooting on Heath Street has attracted the attention of the
media.  Reporter Luke Broadwater ran the below article in today's Baltimore
Examiner about the efforts and concerns of the community to clean up Heath
Street:  

 

 

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Residents call for help on South Baltimore's Heath Street

 
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Community activists Al Evans, left, and Donnie Fair point out locations in
an area they say is a haven for drug dealing and prostitution. - Kristine
Buls/Examiner 

Luke Broadwater, The Examiner
2008-03-06 08:00:00.0
Current rank: # 27 of 7,416 

BALTIMORE - 

On a South Baltimore <http://www.examiner.com/Subject-South_Baltimore.html>
corner near Thomas Johnson
<http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Thomas_Johnson.html>  Elementary School on
Wednesday, Al <http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Al_Evans.html>  Evans watches
the drug dealers. 

Evans walks with friend Donnie Fair
<http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Donnie_Fair.html>  in a part of the city
real estate agents bill as "Federal Hill" and attempt to sell row houses for
$600,000. 

He spots a dealer with a gray sweat shirt making a hand-to-hand transaction.
There's another, this one with a baseball cap pulled low. As school kids
leave class, a young woman in a pickup truck pulls up. The man in the
baseball cap approaches her window. They clasp hands. She drives away. 

It's 3 p.m. Broad daylight. There's not a cop in sight. 

"It's business as usual," Fair says. 

Evans has come out to the corner because he's mad. He's tired of drug
dealers reigning over what he calls the Heath Street Corridor. 

As Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld
<http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Frederick_Bealefeld.html>  - a man Evans
respects a great deal - implements a crime plan targeting the baddest of the
bad in Baltimore <http://www.examiner.com/Subject-Baltimore.html> 's worst
neighborhoods, Evans, 55, says there's an unintended consequence: The
"riffraff" comes to Heath Street. 

"The idiots come over here," he says. 

Evans and Fair, 31, a former City Council candidate, say they fear the
neighborhood is worsening. 

Tuesday night, bullets crashed through a neighbor's living room window. 

Evans says he suspects the bullets were intended for a drug dealer and fired
in a drive-by shooting. 

"It's becoming a war zone," he says. 

So Evans is turning to the City Council and state delegates with a cry for
help: Turn your attention to Heath Street. Help clean up our neighborhood.
We're sick and tired of the drug dealers. 

"I want my politicians to step up to the plate," he says.

So far, he says, help has been slow to come. 

lbroadwater at baltimoreexaminer.com 

Examiner 

 

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