As little Raven Wyatt (left) remains on life support at Johns Hopkins Hospital, clinging to life as her family and city prays for her to recover, community leaders in Southwest Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge plan for a community walk this evening.

The event had been long scheduled, but a 5-year-old getting shot in the head brings new urgency. The Baltimore branch of the NAACP plans to come and is pleading with men to make a stand. The mayor has put it on her weekly schedule, which will no doubt attract politicians, police commanders, housing officials and code enforcers -- all of whom should've been walking these streets long before Raven ended up in a hospital.

We need answers. We need to know why a 17-year-old with a long juvenile record was placed on home monitoring (he cut off his bracelet and joined a fight with another youth that ended in gunfire and a stray bullet in Raven's head. We know more about his record today and now hear from the governor's office demanding ansewrs from the Department of Juvenile Services.

But still, officials hide behind a cloak of secrecy. We know a bit about the suspect's record but not enough. His attorney tried to prevent his client from standing up in court (he was charged as an adult in Raven's shooting) and didn't bother to argue for bail, which meant no one read his juvenile history into the adult record. The juvenile court proceedings from the past are sealed and the state can't say much about why he was put on home monitoring in the first place.

Such secrecy should end once a juvenile graduates to the adult system. His background will come out eventually -- adult court shields little from public view -- but officials shouldn't be allowed to hide their actions in this case.

Raven deserves a full accounting. The walk kicks off at 6:30 tonight in Carrollton Ridge.