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Cops say it’s unusual that three women are slain in separate ‘targeted killings’, within 13-hour span, in Baltimore

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><header id&equals;"top" class&equals;"top full-columns">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"fbqJ6K1GMqhUUq" class&equals;"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-header" data-pb-name&equals;"Article Header" data-pb-curated&equals;"curated">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card-content align-left">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050505&semi;"><strong>Authorities note that three women found killed in less than 13 hours in Baltimore this week&comma; is out of the norm<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050505&semi;"><strong>Allison Henn&comma; 29&comma; was fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore on Monday night<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050505&semi;"><strong>40 minutes later Kataya Nelson cops found unresponsive&comma; she&&num;8217&semi;d been shot in the head<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050505&semi;"><strong>Hours later&comma; Jasmine Morris&comma; 20&comma; was found killed on the bleachers at a high school football field&comma; on Tuesday morning <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050505&semi;"><strong> Christopher Rather&comma; 22&comma; has been charged with two counts murder&comma; two counts assault and reckless endangerment in connection with the death of Morris<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;050505&semi;"><strong>Women are rarely victims of the more than 300 homicides that the city has recorded in each of the last three years &&num;8211&semi; cop<&sol;strong>s<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;header>&NewLine;<section id&equals;"left" class&equals;"left guttered width-100">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"fQkJnM1GMqhUUq" class&equals;"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-article-body" data-pb-name&equals;"Article Body &lpar;Elements&rpar;" data-pb-curated&equals;"curated">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"collection collection-cards">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-294714" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Jasmin-Morris-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Jasmin Morris 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1150" height&equals;"647" &sol;><strong>Jasmine Morris&comma; was found killed on the bleachers at a high school football field on Tuesday morning&comma; one of three women homicide victims found in a 13-hour span&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p data-page&equals;"1">Authorities are puzzling over the highly unusual incidence of three women were found killed in less than 13 hours in Baltimore this week&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The spate of killings swept Allison Henn&comma; 29&comma; Kataya Nelson&comma; 29&comma; and 20-year-old Jasmine Morris&period; Since at least 2004&comma; there have never been three women killed in the city in unconnected murders over such a short span&comma; Baltimore police said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police are investigating all three deaths as homicides and have charged one man with the most recent killing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The first shooting was in the 4800 block of Pimlico Road around 10&colon;07 pm on Monday night&period; Cops got to the scene to find 29-year-old Allison Henn lying in the grass with a gunshot to the head&period; She was taken to the hospital where she was pronounced dead&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;40 minutes later in the 200 block of North Fremont Ave&period; Officers found a 29-year-old Kataya Nelson lying on the ground unresponsive&period; She was also taken to a hospital where medics pronounced her dead&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Speaking on the death of their daughter&comma; Allison Henn’s parents said for years&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;d lived in fear that their daughter’s heroin habit would kill her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We would not have been surprised by an overdose&comma;” her mother Linda said as she sat at the family’s dinner table on Wednesday morning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But the violence&comma;” her father Norman said&comma; his voice trailing off&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Henn&comma; 29&comma; was fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore on Monday night&comma; the first of three women who were found killed in the city in a 13-hour span&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Police do not believe the three killings are connected&comma; spokesman T&period;J&period; Smith said&period; All three were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;targeted” killings&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;em&lowbar;r&lowbar;ca">&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-294716" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;06&sol;Allison-Henn-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Allison Henn 1&period;jpg" width&equals;"1150" height&equals;"647" &sol;><strong>Allison Henn&comma; was the first of three women fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore on Monday night <&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"trb&lowbar;sc" data-role&equals;"sc&lowbar;information sc&lowbar;container" data-sc-c&equals;"page" data-sc-url&equals;"&sol;bal-bs0073634244-20180615-photo&period;html" data-sc-ti&equals;"Allison Henn" data-sc-th&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;trbimg&period;com&sol;img-5b240b99&sol;turbine&sol;bal-bs0073634244-20180615" data-sc-desc&equals;"Allison Henn&comma; 29&comma; was fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore on Monday night&period; " data-sc-sl&equals;"bal-bs0073634244-20180615" data-sc-cont&equals;"photogallery" data-sc-nn&equals;"The Baltimore Sun" data-sc-contid&equals;"99518201">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Kataya Nelson&comma; 29&comma; was found unresponsive in West Baltimore on Monday night less than 45 minutes after Henn was discovered&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Police had responded to a report of a shooting in the 100 block of North Fremont Avenue in Poppleton and found Nelson on the next block down&period; She was taken to a hospital&comma; where she was pronounced dead&period; Police have not released any motive or suspect information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>A relative said Nelson was a mother and that her funeral would be on Wednesday&comma; but declined to comment further&period;<&sol;p><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Residents of the block where she was killed and where a family member used to live said they were shocked that two young women had been killed in one night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>At 11&colon;15 on Tuesday morning&comma; police discovered the body of Jasmine Morris&comma; 20&comma; in the bleachers of a high school football field in the 2400 block of Westfield Ave&period; in Northeast Baltimore&period; Police said she was not breathing and had signs of trauma to her body&period; She was pronounced dead a short time later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Police arrested 22 year-old Christopher Rather&comma;in the death of Morris&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He has been charged with first- and second-degree murder&comma; first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment in connection with Morris’s death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item card-border-bottom card-border-bottom-thick card-border-bottom-dark" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Women are rarely victims of the more than 300 homicides that the city has recorded in each of the last three years&period; Since at least 2004&comma; there have never been three women killed in the city in unconnected murders over such a short span&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"card collection-item" data-type&equals;"text">&NewLine;<div class&equals;" card-content ">&NewLine;<p>Of more than 2&comma;500 homicides in Baltimore over the past 10 years&comma; 9&percnt; of the victims were women&period; Sixteen women have been killed so far this year&comma; making up 13&percnt; of the city’s homicide total as of Friday morning&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;section>&NewLine;

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