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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…
Source: HighBeam Research, 15-year-old girl falls victim to surge of deadly violence in city.