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Baltimore Algebra Project Organizer Zachariah Hallback shot and killed on Jan 9th



Dear supporters of the Algebra Project:

We mourn the loss of Zachariah Hallback, a wonderful young man who had participated in many Algebra Project events, and who was helping to organize for the action below. Zach was shot Wednesday, Jan. 9 during a robbery while he waited with other Algebra Project youth for a bus across the street from City College High School. He was pronounced dead on Friday, Jan. 11. The students have decided to continue with this action in his memory.

STUDENT ACTION –CSI ANNAPOLIS– NOW SCHEDULED FOR FEB. 6
Please join them, Silent March to the State House begins at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, Feb 6, from Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West Street, Annapolis.
RIDES NEEDED FOR PARENTS–PLEASE CALL 410-338-0679 TO HELP.

DEMANDS INCLUDE:

Reverse cuts to Thornton Funding — school system must currently cut $50 million to balance 2009 budget

Jobs in the knowledge-based economy for all youth
$800 million for Baltimore schools as ordered by court
Arts for all students; Buildings repaired, not closed; Class sizes capped at 20.

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right.

Some students will perform a die-in to dramatize the cost of inadequate education, and the Governor’s Mansion will be wrapped in crime-scene tape.

For more information, Call 410-338-0679

Jay
 
 

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Wow

Is this article saying he was shot and killed on 33rd street right outside of Baltimore City College while waiting with a crowd for a bus? Wow.
 

Re: Baltimore Algebra Project Organizer Zachariah Hallback shot and killed on Jan 9th

Here's a story with a bit more info on what exactly happened: www.examiner.com/a-1163277~Bus_stop_murder_brings__outrage___tears_in_Baltimore.html

from that article:
At about 8 p.m., Hallback had just left a meeting of the Algebra Project, a national mathematics literacy campaign aimed at helping poor students, and was standing at the bus stop with two friends. A man at the bus stop pulled out a gun and demanded their money and cell phones, police said.

The robber ordered them into a back alley and told them to lie face-down on the ground. Then, police said, he shot Hallback in the head.
 

Re: This Crime is Nuts

Bus-stop murder brings ‘outrage,’ tears
The Examiner
Baltimore, MD
by Chris Ammann

BALTIMORE -- They gathered at the site of their friend’s slaying to cry out for answers. “Why did it have to be him?” asked eighth-grader Maryum Shadeed, a friend of Zecariah Hallback, 18, who was shot to death during a robbery on Jan. 9 while waiting for a bus at East 33rd Street and The Alameda.

At about 8 p.m., Hallback had just left a meeting of the Algebra Project, a national mathematics literacy campaign aimed at helping poor students, and was standing at the bus stop with two friends. A man at the bus stop pulled out a gun and demanded their money and cell phones, police said.

The robber ordered them into a back alley and told them to lie face-down on the ground. Then, police said, he shot Hallback in the head.

“He was a soft-spoken, nice kid,” said Baltimore NAACP President Marvin “Doc” Cheatham, who organized the rally Wednesday to ask citizens to come forward with information about the teen’s death. “He was very respectful, like all of the Algebra Project kids. This is a real tragedy. We shouldn’t lose any of these kids to homicide. It’s unimaginable. We have no other course of action but to take some sort of leadership role.”

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Baltimore City Public Schools employee Jay Gillen, who knew Hallbeck well, said he couldn’t believe the teen is gone. “Why can’t someone just wait at a bus stop?” Gillen asked.

Baltimore police Col. Rick Hite said he felt “outrage” at the killing.

“When the community grieves, the police department grieves,” he said. “We can’t let anyone victimize our kids.”

Cheatham said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is asking citizens to render financial contributions to help cover the cost of burial expenses for Hallbeck’s family, which can’t afford the funeral.

“When you stand on a bus stop, you shouldn’t get robbed and get shot,” said Algebra Project member Unique McNeal, an eighth-grader at the Stadium School. “You should be able to stand on a bus stop and be safe without people hurting you. There’s too many people getting robbed, hurt and killed.”

Standing on the corner near the bus stop, the Rev. Heber Brown III prayed with about two dozen of Hallbeck’s friends.

“Lord, we are tired of seeing, year after year, how high our murder rate will go,” he said.

Baltimore City tracked 282 slayings last year. There have been six so far in 2008.
 

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