Wouldn't that be wild: The Abell Foundation would like to buy the Sun from the Tribune. Says the foundation president: "it's important that the Sun aspire to its previous level of excellence." Word up there Bob.
Homicide #126 is a woman in an apartment east of Canton, dead from a gunshot wound to the head.
Today, a jury found Teon Hall guilty of the murder in the second degree of Craig Morris and first-degree assault of Stephen Kendall. Mr. Hall was convicted for shooting these two men outside of the Ritz Caberet in the early morning of February 18, 2005:
At a hearing today, Judge Roger Brown sentenced Tremaine Jenkins, 27, to 25 years. A Baltimore City jury convicted Gibson more than a year ago for attempted second-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon. On Christmas Eve 2004 at around 11:30 p.m. Jenkins stabbed a victim in the forehead with a knife. When the victim fell to the ground, Jenkins went through his pockets, taking $90. The man lost his right eye as a result of the stab wound; the knife severed his optic nerve.
On the night of February 18, 2005, [before] Teon Hall shot and killed Craig Morris and seriously wounded Stephen Kendall, [Morris and Kendall] along with one of their friends were accosted by two Asian men outside of the Ritz. As a fight broke out between the men, Mr. Hall grabbed a .40 caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic hand gun and ran up to the fight and fired 6 shots at the victims striking each one 3 times. Mr. Morris, who stumbled into the club after being shot twice in the chest, was rushed to the hospital but died there. Mr. Kendall was struck in both legs and survived.
Police were at the scene almost immediately after the shooting. A witness at the scene provided police with a description of Mr. Hall, including the car he drove away in and the direction in which he fled. Baltimore City Police apprehended Mr. Hall approximately 2 miles from the Ritz on Eastern Avenue with the murder weapon directly between his feet. Fingerprint analysis discovered his finger prints on the magazine of the murder weapon.
The case was tried over the past 6 days before the Honorable Paul Alpert and the jury began its deliberations yesterday afternoon at 2:15 p.m. After recessing for the evening, the jury returned this morning and delivered its verdict at approximately 10:45 a.m. Sentencing is set for Tuesday, August 18, 2006, 18 months to the day after the incident.
Two homicides this weekend , #s 124 and 125.
One of the less-pushy customers at the Charles Street Eddie's.
Taking Love to the Streets Dept:
This week the city will be beseiged by Baptists and other screaming elephant circuses.
Rumor around the courthouse is that Robert Clay was the "boyfriend" of Delegate Jill Carter {D-41} ... isn't that always the rumor about bossy girls?
Bruce Miller, left, reports on some local screenwriters who're peddling a pilot for a show about Baltimore that's all about the real: "The tagline is 'There is a lot of love to be had on the street,'" Mason said. "It's really dealing with people out in the night and what can happen and it also enlightens about AIDS, epidemiology and addiction. Baltimore has a lot to say in those areas."
Web finds: a site for Jewish child abuse and sexual assault survivors. Sorry to have missed yesterday's rally ... "Get" In On It, Efraim!
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So,... when are we gonna order them into Baltimore ? Please?
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/19/neworleans.shooting.ap/index.html
Sorry - the guard's only deployed when there's a faint hope that they'll ever get to actually leave...
what are you talking about? there a bunch of national guardsmen in iraq.
We aren't talking about international conflict - we're talking about national crises that warrant the guard. The fact is, if baltimore receives the guard to get rid of the criminal element in baltimore they'll be here for the rest of time.
that was a joke.
but also, new orleans typically has a pretty steadily high rate of crime comparable to that of baltimore, which only went down significantly when it lost half its population or whatever. why is there a faint hope that crime will go down there and not in baltimore? is the governor banking on much fewer of the poor people returning?
Sorry - it gets hard for me to pick up sarcasm on the computer nowadays (I blame freerepublic).
That's a very good question, by the way. My instinct leans towards two possible answers. The first is what you mentioned - many of those displaced don't have a financial reason to return to the state so why expect them to return? But also, there's more of a national interest in bringing new orleans to a golden era, in light of the mistakes that took place during the Hurricane Katrina debacle... Whereas here in baltimore we don't have that type of attention, the crisis that occurred there gives local, state, and federal authorities reasons for wanting the city to be restored - since all of them screwed up. If baltimore were in similar circumstances, I suspect you'd see the same thing.
If the crime statistic maps have taught us anything, it's that every city could cut its crime rate drastically by simply allowing certain neighborhoods to be utterly obliterated from the face of the earth. One is reminded of "it became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."
Thinking upon the effect of the flood in catalyzing the supply of National Guard troops in N.O., I'm opening the spigots on all my faucets. {hope it'll be enough.}
I always suspected you were a "destroy the village" sort, John.
In all seriousness, never have I seen a village with a greater imperative to its destruction.
Those sections of Baltimore which harbor and endorse crime are exceptionally evil, which is not a word I employ casually.
Perpetuating,... even tolerating this behavior and this lifestyle is immoral. Really.
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