Charles Rammelkamp

WHEELIE QUEEN

First homicide of the year in Baltimore?
Lakeyria Doughty, star dirt bike rider,
featured in Charm City Kings,
the movie produced by Hollywood
power couple, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett,
alleged to have stabbed her ex,
a chef named Tiffany Wilson,
who’d tried breaking up with her,
asking Doughty to return the keys to her apartment,
pleading with Doughty to leave her alone.

In the early hours on New Year’s Day,
Doughty called 911, frantic, claiming Wilson
had stabbed herself with a kitchen knife,
that she, Doughty, had tried saving her with CPR.

But the cops said Wilson
couldn’t possibly have stabbed herself,
the wound in her chest
not possibly self-inflicted,
not to mention signs of a fight
in Wilson’s Sandtown apartment,
charging Doughty with murder,
holding her without bail.


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Charles confesses: "For several years Baltimore has struggled with crime and an alarming murder rate. It didn’t help that Donald Trump smeared the city as a 'shithole' without offering any help or consolation. When I read about the first homicide of 2021, I thought, uh-oh, the new year hasn’t changed a lot."

CHARLES RAMMELKAMP is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. Two full-length collections were published in 2020, Catastroika, from Apprentice House, and Ugler Lee from Kelsay Books. A poetry chapbook, Mortal Coil, has just been published by Clare Songbirds Publishing.