Juan Grant, friend of Freddie Gray who led protests after his death, killed in West Baltimore

Baltimore Sun ^ | 29 April 2019 | Colin Campbell

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Juan Grant, a close family friend of Freddie Gray’s who led protests in front of the Western District police station demanding answers after Gray’s death from injuries suffered in police custody in 2015, was shot to death in West Baltimore Saturday, his family said.

Grant, whose brother had a child with Gray’s twin sister, was best friends with Gray and considered the two brothers-in-law. As tensions rose in the days after the 25-year-old died of spinal cord injuries following his arrest four years ago near Gilmor Homes, Grant returned daily to the police station and met with then-Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and then-Deputy Commissioner Kevin Davis, desperate for information. “He was trying to make a difference in his own way,” said Frederina Grant, his grandmother. “He was determined that he was going to march and have people march with him to find out what happened.”

Detectives told Frederina the 33-year-old had been driving back to his grandmother’s Westwood Avenue home about 8 p.m. Saturday after dropping off a cousin who had done work on her house when his black Cadillac collided with a dirt bike in the 1800 block of N. Payson St., his grandmother said. He got out of the car, she said. “I don’t know whether it was to confront this person or to see if this person was OK. “Whoever it was just shot him,” Frederina Grant said. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead with gunshot wounds to the head.

[Bigg Red]

:)

[PLMerite]

I missed my turn for the B-W Parkway from the Convention Center and got lost in West Baltimore in 1995. Never again did I drive in Baltimore.

[the OlLine Rebel]

That deserves a very belated answer.

Baltimore was a GREAT city. That is not the legacy at least of Sr., although he definitely had his problems. Jr., though, allowed too much leeway in the rioting of ‘68, which is the DIRECT cause of the decline of Baltimore. One could argue that Jr. caused the downfall.