BALTIMORE — Early Monday, police returned to the scene of the mass shooting, which left a 36-year-old man dead and seven others injured, and if they spoke with Oliver resident Chereese Massey, they’d learn how a simple dispute erupted in violence.
“It only started over a parking spot,” said Massey, “That’s how the altercation started. Two individuals got into it, because I guess the wife or girlfriend wanted to park there. They moved the cone, which I guess this in residential. Everybody’s homeowners here.”
Massey says a group of bikers have long used a building bordering the public park near Dr. Bernard Harris Elementary School as a club house, and she showed us a picture where they had blocked off an area near the basketball courts for a cookout.
When things grew heated over the parking space, she dialed 911.
“We called 911 twice and we were ignored and this …