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WEBVTT LENS.11 NEWS REPORTER OMAR JIMENEZGIVES US GLIMPSE AT WHAT SHESAW.>> THE KILLING CONTINUED WITHTWO HOMICIDES.>> THE MURDER RATE AT HISTORICLEVELS AND A CONTINUING SPIKE INVIOLENCE.OMAR: IF YOU'VE TURNED ON THENEWS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS THESEARE FAMILIAR SIGHTS AND SOUNDS.HOMICIDES DOMINATING THEHEADLINES WITH VICTIMS FROM ALLWALKS OF LIFE.BUT IN 2017 THEY'RE BEING VIEWEDTHROUGH A DIFFERENT LENSAMY BERBERT ISN'T JUST TAKINGPICTURES, SHE'S PRESERVINGMEMORIES.DOCUMENTING EVERY SINGLEHOMICIDE FROM 2016 IN A SERIESOF PHOTOS, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, STORIES.>> I HAVE FORCED MYSELF TOIMAGINE THAT A YEAR AGO AT THATTIME ON THAT DAY THERE WASSOMEONE DYING WHERE I AM.OMAR: AND THAT REALITY PLAYS OUTIN THE 22-YEAR-OLD'S PROJECT,STAINS ON THE SIDEWALK.SHE GOES OUT AT THE EXACT TIMEAND THE EXACT DAY OF THE MURDER,WHICH MEANT SHE WASN'TCELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR ONJANUARY 1, 2017.SHE WAS HERE, ON THE 2300 BLOCKOF EAST MADISON STREET FOR61-YEAR-OLD SHARON WILLIAMS. POLICE SAY A MAN BARRICADED HERINSIDE THIS HOME AND SET IT ONFIRE.THAT'S HOW THE YEAR BEGAN, BUTTHERE WERE PLENTY OF OTHERS.>> WE JUST WANT TO FIND OUT WHOMURDERED MY BROTHER FOR NOREASON.>> BUT I DON'T BELIEVE HE'SBROUGHT ME THIS FAOMAR: ONE DAY SPECIFICALLYBERBERT REMEMBERS THERE WERE 3IN A DAY.AT THE FIRST SCENE SHE WASHARDLY THE ONLY ONE THERE.>> THERE WAS MUSIC AND BALLOONSAND CANDLES AND EVERYONE WASLIKE OBVIOUSLY IT WAS A SADOCCASION BUT EVERYBODY SEEMED TOBE CELEBRATING THIS PERSON'SMEMORYOMAR: THEN SHE DROVE JUST A FEWMINUTES AWAY TO THE NEXTTHOUGHT.>> ALL OF THE HOUSES WEREBOARDED UP, THERE WERE SOMEPEOPLE SITTING ON STOOPS, BUTLIKE, THERE WAS NO ONE THERE TOREMEMBER THAT PERSON EXCEPT FORMEOMAR: SO SHE TAKES THATRESPONSIBILITY SERIOUSLY, WHICHIS WHY SHE'S OUT AT ALL HOURS OFTHE DAY AND NIGHT.MISSING WEDDINGS, VACATIONS, ANDMORE JUST TO DOCUMENT DEATH,DOING IT HERE FOR 59-YEAR-OLDMOLLY MACAULEY, THE ROLAND PARKWOMAN KILLED LATE AT NIGHT WHILEWALKING HER DOGS.SHE TRIES TO SEE SOMETHINGDIFFERENT IN EACH SCENE, BUTSOMETIMES SHE CAN'T HELP SEEINGSOMETHING IN HERSELF>> IF A 17-YEAR-OLD IS KILLED, ITRY TO THINK OF EVERYTHING I'VEDONE IN THE PAST 5 YEARS SINCE IWAS 17 AND IMAGINE NONE OF THATHAPPENING.BECAUSE THAT'S THE REALITY FORTHESE PEOPLE.OMAR: BUT NOW SHE HOPES THOSEMEMORIES NEVER FADE, EVEN IF THE STAINS ON THE

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In 2015 there were 344 homicides in Baltimore, which is the highest per capita rate in the city's recorded history. It caught the attention of one photographer who decided to show the next year's 318 killings through a different lens.If you've turned on the news in the past few years homicides dominate headlines with victims from all walks of life, but in 2017, they're being viewed through a different lens.Amy Berbert isn't just taking pictures, she's preserving memories. She documenting every single homicide from 2016 in a series of photos, but more importantly stories."I have forced myself to imagine that a year ago at that time on that day there was someone dying where I am," Berbert said.That reality plays out in the 22-year-old's project "Stains on the Sidewalk." She goes out at the exact time and the exact day of the murder, which meant she wasn't celebrating the New Year on Jan. 1, 2017.She was on the 2300 block of East Madison Street for 61-year-old Sharon Williams, where police said a man barricaded her inside this home and set it on fire. That's how the year began, but there have been plenty of others.One day specifically Berbert remembers there were three in a day. At the first scene, she was hardly the only one there."There was music and balloons and candles and everyone was, like obviously it was a sad occasion, but everybody seemed to be celebrating this person's memory," Berbert said.Then she drove just a few minutes away to the next scene."All of the houses were boarded up. There were some people sitting on stoops, but like, there was no one there to remember that person except for me," Berbert said.Berbert takes that responsibility seriously, which is why she's out at all hours of the day and night missing weddings, vacations and more just to document death, like that of 59-year-old Molly Macauley, the Roland Park woman killed late at night while walking her dogs.She tries to see something different in each scene, but sometimes she can't help seeing something in herself."If a 17-year-old is killed, I try to think of everything I've done in the past five years since I was 17, and imagine none of that happening because that's the reality for these people," Berbert said.But now she hopes those memories never fade, even if the stains on the sidewalk eventually do.