From the MICA Campus Safety Log :

On 15 May 2009 at 1045hrs. Campus Safety responded to the Main Bldg. and spoke with a MICA staff member who stated on 14 May 2009 at 1900hrs. during the Art Walk event she was approached by a women and her boyfriend while looking at a former MICA student’s honorary display. The man began to video tape the MICA Employee as he began to make statement’s about how MICA does not care about the safety of it’s student’s and not of his dead daughter (a student who died after being struck by a vehicle at Dolphin and Howard Street).  The man also began to make statments about how unsafe Baltimore is. He also approached a MICA student who was also struck by the same vehicle and told him he had the blood of his dead daughter on his hands. The women will be meeting with VP of Student Affairs to discuss her boyfriend’s actions.

Since after the incident, very little information about how the students were struck was disclosed, it is hard to understand why the other student who was hit (Kent Miller) has blood on his hands. It’s unfair to speculate at this point, but based on this report, disturbing.

Update (May 19th, 2009) : Gabriella Camejo’s dad is reported harassing a MICA staff member at ArtWalk, accuses Kent Miller of “.. blood on his hands”. Update here.

Update (May 7th, 2009) :

The Baltimore Sun has a good piece on the state of this intersection, it’s upsetting and disturbing how long this dangerous intersection has gone without being remarked for pedestrians crossing : Worn Away Crosswalk — Baltimore Sun

An excerpt from the Sun Post :

She called 311 to place a service request last year – and again in February and March. The February call is still listed as open in the system, but no work has been completed. When Heningburg called to follow up, she was told such work gets postponed in poor weather.

Even after a student was hit and killed here, and another seriously injured, as of today NOTHING has been done to make this crosswalk safer. Not even remarking the nearly invisible crosswalk. This is a shame on the part of everyone in Baltimore City gov’t who has any control over this intersection.

Original Post :

A Maryland Institute College of Art student was struck and killed by a vehicle at the intersection of Howard Street and Dolphin street on late sunday evening. Another student was badly injured by the vehicle. Here’s some of MICA president Fred Lazarus’s letter to students on the incident :

It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that the MICA community has lost one of our own, senior Gabriella Camejo, a general fine arts major from California, who died after being hit by a car late Sunday evening. Gabriella was walking with another student, senior Kent Miller, a drawing major from Pennsylvania, who was also struck by the vehicle at the intersection of Howard and Dolphin streets. I visited with Kent this morning, and he is in stable condition. His mother, who traveled to Baltimore from Philadelphia early this morning, is at his side.

At this time we do not have any other details about the accident, which is being investigated by the Baltimore City Police Department …