This is the beautiful city of Elijah Cummings. Don't they have gun control?- Baltimore's violent weekend sees 7 shot -- 2 fatally -- in 16 hours as homicide count reaches 240 Trump is going to Baltimore - this will be great. Voters of Baltimore remember: what do you have to lose. walk away. Blexit. Baltimore is in the midst of yet another violent year, with the homicide count now up to at least 240 reported homicides in 2019, according to statistics compiled by the Baltimore Sun. The city is on pace to have more than 300 murders for a fifth straight year. Baltimore has been in the throes of a steep rise in violent crime since 2015, when the homicide rate spiked amid the city’s worst rioting in decades following the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died in police custody. In 2017, the FBI placed the city on its "Crime in the U.S." list. Baltimore was listed well above that of any other large American metropolis, with the 342 homicides notched that year, yielding a stunning homicide rate of 56 per 100,000 people. President Trump is scheduled to visit Baltimore on Thursday to deliver remarks at the 2019 House Republican Conference Member Retreat Dinner. President Trump hammers Rep. Elijah Cummings, equates living in Baltimore with living in hell Trump uses Jamestown anniversary to praise the contribution of African-Americans to American democracy while launching a broadside at House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings and his district's mismanagement; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports. The visit will come after Trump's attacks on Democratic U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings and his Baltimore-area district earlier this summer. Trump called Cummings'  7th Congressional District a "disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess" where "no human being would want to live." https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-weekend-homicide-count-240-shooting