A Baltimore family that lost a son to a double-shooting said the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement stepped in when help was hard to find.

“I was worried. I was anxious. I was not sleeping. I was scared, to say the least.”

Destiny W. survived a double-shooting in October that killed her 35-year-old brother, Stephen Phillips, when someone fired into their car on Cameron Road in Northeast Baltimore. Bullets struck her leg and stomach while, miraculously, missing her unborn son, who was delivered just over two months early.

“I’m doing OK, considering how I was on that day a month and a half ago. It’s nothing short of a miracle as to how I have recovered, nothing short of a miracle,” Destiny W. told WBAL-TV 11 News. “It was God’s grace, and my brother giving his strength t

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