Until she graduated from high school in June, Aaliyah Gonzalez had a strict 11 p.m. curfew. But her parents decided to loosen the rules after proudly watching her walk across the graduation stage to collect her diploma.
With college on the horizon, she took advantage of her newfound freedom and stayed out late to celebrate the start of summer with friends. That’s how Aaliyah ended up at Baltimore’s Brooklyn Day celebration, now best known as the site of a mass shooting that turned an annual block party into a scene of terror and bloodshed.
