In a matter of a few days, Richard Parker saw three people become victims of either assault or armed robbery right outside his front door on Beech Avenue in Hampden.
First, on Sunday night, around 11:
“I heard a guy yelling, somebody please help me,” Parker recalled to WMAR-2 News’ Elizabeth Worthington about the robbery. “He said they were all armed. They had ski masks on and they were dressed in black.”
Then, on Wednesday:
“It was about 11:30 in the afternoon. Again, I heard yelling,” Parker said.
Two men were punched and robbed by a group of teenagers.
“I yelled at them, get out of here. And the one yelled back at me, ‘well we’ll get you,’” before they sped off.
The two incidents were part of two larger crime sprees, committed in the same area by two separate groups of juveniles, according to Baltimore Police.
On Wednesday morning, it started near Johns Hopkins University with a stolen car. Then there was the robbery and assault on Beech Avenue. They moved on to Chestnut Avenue for another armed robbery, before an unsuccessful attempt on the Alameda, and wrapped it up with another robbery and assault on Marble Hall Avenue.