A Baltimore-based outreach worker with the Catholic anti-violence group Safe Streets Cherry Hill was shot and killed in the city on Thursday.
“Safe Streets has a special place in my heart, and I consider the Violence Interrupters who bravely serve this program as a part of my family,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said in a Thursday statement posted to Twitter. “Tonight, our brother Kenyell Wilson became a victim of the gun violence he worked every day to prevent. I am deeply saddened and angered that ‘Benny’s’ life was taken in a weak cowardly act.”
Officers on Thursday responded to reports that Kenyell “Benny” Wilson, father to 11 children, had walked into Harbor Hospital on Thursday seeking treatment for gunshot wounds, The Baltimore Police Department confirmed to Fox News.
Wilson, 44, drove himself to the hospital after being shot but ultimately succumbed to his wounds, police said.
Wilson’s friends told Paul Gessler, a reporter for WJZ, a Baltimore CBS station, that Wilson had been “grabbing food” when he was shot.
Why am I not surprised?
father to 11 kids? yeah right! to be a father you have to be there to raise teach and provide for your children. More like sperm donor to several ghetto mamas!