The Murphy Homes housing development was located in the heart of West Baltimore until the city demolished the homes in 1999. The four-building, fourteen stories high, was once notorious for crime, drugs, and murder. Most of the unemployed, crack-addicted residents that lived at Murphy Homes were trapped in a life of crime with nowhere to go, but the graveyard. Their children's lives were destroyed. Born to a crack-addicted mother, young Shaun Jones had to learn how to survive alone in Murphy Homes, or die
