article_snippet.sent: (CNN)In the hours after the funeral of Freddie Gray, a community center and apartment complex that local leaders expected to serve as a catalyst for the rebuilding of a long blighted East Baltimore neighborhood went up in flames.
article_snippet.sent: The cause of the blaze was still under investigation.
article_snippet.sent: The brick building burned to the ground in the riots that followed Monday's funeral for Gray, who died mysteriously on April 19, a week after East Baltimore's police arrested him.
article_snippet.sent: Anger over Gray's death may have spurred Monday's violence -- including buildings and cars set ablaze by rioters, looting and clashes with the  police -- but members of East Baltimore's's clergy said it was also spurred by lasting issues with young African-Americans in the city.
article_snippet.sent: The Rev. Reginald Thomas, pastor of Greater Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church and member of the coalition, said parts of East Baltimore's have not recovered from the 1968 riots that followed the assassination of
article_snippet.sent: the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Those riots sped up the flight of city residents to the suburbs.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mary Harvin Transformation Center burned down during Baltimore riots .