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15-year-old girl falls victim to surge of deadly violence in city.

The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)

| July 11, 2007 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Baltimore Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Gus G. Sentementes and Nicole Fuller

Jul. 11--After a long night of cleaning motel rooms, Ginger Brown unlocked the front door, walked into her Southwest Baltimore rowhouse early yesterday and instantly knew something was wrong. Lights were on throughout the first floor, though it was just after 2 a.m. Her 15-year-old daughter, Christine Richardson, was neither seen nor heard.

Brown went upstairs to the second floor, where she found her only child lying on Brown's bed with stab wounds to the chest and her throat slit, she said. Her daughter's blood stained the mattress. The family dog, Snowball, lay waiting at her side.

In the hours before daybreak, paramedics and crime lab technicians arrived and started gathering evidence, while homicide detectives began their investigation into the death of Richardson -- the second, and youngest, girl killed in the city this year.

"I can't go into the home by myself because I'm afraid I might flip out," a distraught Brown, 44, said about 8 a.m. yesterday on the sidewalk in front of her house.

The pace of city homicides has quickened this year, and…

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