Chase Love, U.S. Marine, Fatally Shot in Hookah Lounge in Baltimore Ahead of Redeployment of Afghanistan

U.S. Marine Chase Love fatally shot at hookah lounge in Baltimore as he celebrated with other Marines ahead of redeployment to Afghanistan.

Chase Love, a Marine who was about to be redeployed to Afghanistan, was shot and killed in and killed at a downtown Baltimore bar early Friday morning. According to the Baltimore Sun, Love was shot once in the chest after an altercation in the Queen's Hookah lounge between 3:15 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.

Love. who reportedly lived with his wife and two stepchildren in North Carolina, was celebrating with other Marines ahead of their redeployment to Afghanistan. He also served in Iraq and was a radio operator, according to his Facebook page.

Baltimore is fast catching up to Chicago in the level of gun violence. My thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Chase Love. He survived being in Iraq and Afghanistan, only to die in his country.