Official in Baltimore, Maryland, have asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to help bring down the soaring number of homicides in the city.
“Murder is out of control,” Mayor Catherine Pugh said at her weekly press briefing on Wednesday. “There are too many guns on the streets. We’re looking for all the help we can get.”
She made the remarks two days after three more people were killed in the city, bringing the total number of murders since the beginning of this year to 101, a level of violence not matched since the 1990s.
Anthony McCarthy, the mayor’s spokesman, said Pugh has asked he special agent in charge of the FBI’s Baltimore office to bring in more agents to help the local police because the historically high figure was expected to run even higher with warmer months of the year around the corner.
“The summers in Baltimore tend to be very violent,” McCarthy said. “And the mayor wants to get a handle on all the murders, the…