A Night of Carnage Tragedy Strikes in New Market

Belinda Ward
5 min read4 days ago
Crimea Baker
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Only the gunfire was audible nobody heard the screams

Among charming houses and ancient streets in the center of the quiet suburban town of New Market, Maryland, an unimaginable tragedy occurred one warm August evening. The kind of crime that shatter the false sense of security and leave a community perpetually perplexed as to how anything like this could occur here.

The most horrifying collision between violence and love ever happened inside a modest two-story house on Manda long Court. Four scared kids hid in the dark, waiting for the horror to end as two people — a young mother and her new partner — were killed in their bed.

A calm family evening turned violent as bullets tore through the stillness and everyone associated with the victims’ lives.

David Phillip Turner
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A Fatal Drive Driven by Rage

Miami-born David Turner, 33, was an IT specialist. He was married to Crimea Baker, who was the mother of three of his children. Over time, their once-love full marriage had become worse. Turner was left to harbor bitterness as Crimea’s enthusiasm for him waned…

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