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Social fabric?

She said her family is still struggling after Elliott's death. The girl's eight-year-old cousin, Khadin, sees a therapist. He likes to watch videos he made of his cousin, which he keeps stored on a portable player. He insisted on helping carry Elliott's tiny coffin at her funeral.

In May, the city renamed the street where she died McKenzie Elliott Way. Her relatives are unimpressed. They just want her killer found.

A year after their loved ones died, all five families are still struggling. Brown and Tales both think Baltimore's social fabric is too severely frayed to repair.

Academics who have studied the area and its entrenched problems agree that change won't come easily. Lawrence Brown, a professor at Morgan State University, a historically black college in Baltimore, sees many of Baltimore's ills today as rooted in the city's legacy of strict segregation that began in the early 1900s.

“When you combine the psychological impact of racism, anti-blackness, economic conditions, red-lining, disinvestment,” he said, it's no wonder “we have a disproportionate rate of violence.”

- Three days, five killings and a year of pain in Baltimore, Reuters, July 30, 2017.

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