BREAKING NEWS: Baltimore Arabber Shot and Killed by Baltimore Police

The Baltimore Beat is reporting that Baltimore police shot and killed well-known Baltimore arabber, Bilal “BJ” Abdullah, on Tuesday evening. Abdullah was born into arabbing, which is the tradition of selling produce along city streets from brightly colorful horse-drawn wagons

“’On June 17, 2025, at approximately 7:17 p.m., officers were patrolling near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Laurens Street when they observed an adult male believed to be armed,’ BPD spokesperson Lindsey Eldridge wrote in a statement. They did not provide information on why the officers believed him to be armed.

Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters at a news briefing that the person began to run. According to police, the individual they were chasing fired a weapon, hitting a veteran officer in the foot as three officers opened fire on him.

The Office of the Attorney General will be investigating the shooting, as it has since October 2023, when a new law gave that office, instead of the State’s Attorney’s Office, the power to investigate police shootings.”