Monday, June 5, 2006

June 5

"I fired many shots." It's a WBAL exclusive interview with the "Cross Keys Shooter" Mark Beckwith, who describes the incident and blasts the Sun for publishing his identity and home address in the paper (!) following the St. Patrick's Day incident.

The May death of Anuradha Ramasamy, 25, of Remington, has been ruled a homicide. #= 115.

In Frederick, Ralph Brown Jr. got probation for the neglect/roasting of his 5-month-old son.

The trial of Myron Merrill Gladney, 20, is scheduled to begin 9 a.m. tomorrow before Judge Allen L. Schwait. On June 1, 2005 a Baltimore City grand jury indicted Gladney on charges of attempted first-degree murder and intimidating a witness. Court documents allege that on April 6, 2005 Gladney approached the victim, Brian Griffin, who was scheduled to testify in the homicide trial of his brother, at E. 25th Street and Harford Road and shot him in the stomach.

The murder trial of Teon Hall, 28, of Annapolis, is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow before Judge Paul E. Alpert. The Baltimore City Grand jury indicted Hall March 14, 2005 for first-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of Craig Morris, 32. Court documents allege Hall shot and killed Mr. Morris February 18, 2005 in front of the Ritz Cabaret on South Broadway. Hall was also indicted for the attempted first-degree murder of a second victim who survived the shooting. Police said at the time that they believe the murders were a case of mistaken identity.

Classes are going on as scheduled at Woodlawn High, though the body of a man was found on the school track early this morning.

A body was found near the train tracks in Perryman, Harford County, gender, age, race undetermined.

Yes indeed, they're even arresting the clergy now. Yet not the crackheads at 3508 Elm Avenue. Go figure.

If having a gun's a crime, then only criminals will have guns. Criminals and deer hunters. And deer-hunting criminals.

Unsolved Mysteries:
Did Friends of Martin off businessmanRobert Clay? Why are major parts of the police report blacked out?

Was Sister Catherine Ann Cesnik, teacher at Keough High School, murdered by a priest who wanted to keep her from telling what she knew about his sexual abuse of students?

What hit-and-run driver struck five gals sitting in a parked car in Reiserstown?.

8 comments:

InsiderOut said...

Hmmm. A man, whose critics call him a "constant political thorn in O'Malley's side," starts raising questions suggesting the City awards minorty business contracts to shell corporations that benefits O'Malley's political friends as opposed to hard working black business owners. Shortly thereafter, he received death threats. He speaks with the Examiner, a paper determined not to be O'Malley's lapdog like the Baltimore Sun. He agrees to give the paper an exclusive interview a few days later. Instead, on May 16th, he is found dead in his office with a gunshot wound to his head. The police say he shot himself with a stolen gun using his left hand. He was right handed. The man's friends say he was murdered. The police department, who is under pressure to reduce the homicide rate in this election year, rule that it was a suicide (after reqriting some early reports and blacking-out others). A man on a mission suddenly steals a gun and commits suicide with it without writing a suicide note and using his non-primary hand? Things that make you go Hmmmm.

Maurice Bradbury said...

One problem, he was killed in May of last year, before the Examiner existed.

InsiderOut said...

After a pastor was arrested driving to church on Sunday and sat in jail for 17 hours for a crime he did not commit, Councilman Ken Harris will introduce a resolution at tonight's City Council meeting calling for an investigatory hearing on arrest quotas.

InsiderOut said...

Hmmm. Who was the man identifying himself as Robert Clay that the Examiner was going to meet with to discuss the minority business contract system in the City?

InsiderOut said...

Well, I guess the Washington Examiner was going to meet with Clay. They were around then. That or they baldly lie.

InsiderOut said...

Here's an interesting article on combating the culture of violence.

Anonymous said...

I knew Bob Clay. He was a thorn in people's sides, but I would not have referred to him as clinically depressed at the time he died. Pissed. Not depressed. I think something is being concealed, or maybe just not examined.

This administration is big on allowing certain crimes, just so long as they don't freak out the important people in our downtown Disneyland.

Anonymous said...

Ummm,.. ok, taking Slutkin's violence-as-virus approach, one would clearly wish to ensure that people acclimated to violence not have any one on one contact with non-exposed or young members of society. So, lock 'em all in solitary.

Now, as a matter of behavioral economics, the returns to violence are greatest the less experience others around you have with it, while the incidence is greatest the more violent your neighbor.