Wednesday, October 25, 2006

October 25

The City Grand Jury indicted Marvin Ferguson, 40, of Lyndale Avenue for first-degree murder today.Court documents allege on October 1 while Billy J. Horne, 47, was cleaning his vehicle in front of his home in the 3800 block of Lyndale Avenue, Marvin Ferguson approached and shot him numerous times with a shotgun for no apparent reason. Mr. Horne's son and another man were also fired upon, but were not harmed. Ferguson then returned to his home at 3867 Lyndale Avenue, Baltimore Police Department SWAT team extracted him several hours later. An arraignment is scheduled for November 22.

The murder trial of Clifton Gee, 46, of the 6700 block of Shaken Wood Road, continues today with closing arguments before Judge John Carroll Byrnes. The Baltimore City Grand jury indicted Gee September 8, 2005 for first-degree murder in connection with a homicide that occurred more than 11 years ago. Court documents allege Gee stabbed to death Queen Esther Watson, 29, on May 14, 1994 in her home in the 200 block of South Bethel Street. The Baltimore City Police Lab and the Maryland State Police Lab linked Gee to this murder with DNA testing conducted in February 2005. Gee is currently being held by the Division of Correction where he is serving a five-year sentence in an unrelated case.

East side.
Murder victim #223-ish (some of the people shot last week must have passed...) was 19-year old Glenard Byrd Jr. of Middle River found shot to death Monday in the 1000 block of N. Bond St.
Wonder what a teenager from Middle River would be doing in that part of town .... ?

Central, Western, Northwestern, County.
"Listen kid, I need to CHILL OUT NOW!!"
Oh wait, there's murder victim #222-ish.
Thirty-nine year-old Joel Bradley was beaten to death by a bus stop on the fringe of Bolton Hill.
An attmpted kidnapping in Reisterstown... isn't that at least the second one lately?
And then there's still "Nancy" in HarfCo... sigh. Wait, now, is that "bodies" plural? Two bodies? What other bodies are they talking about?
The one the kids found in Owings Mills?
Roxanne Amick, whose 40-year-old body was found wrapped in a blanket on the side of Bel Air Road? (Guess the husband didn't do it after all.)
Are they counting Nina Tarkovskaya (the Russian lady who went missing from Reisterstown in May)?
Can someone just total for me how many female bodies and attempted kidnappings up there this year?!

.... Wait a minute, sounds like the "unreported women/prostitutes found dead/with their throats cut in the Northwest" rumor, doesn't it?
Gee, I wonder where crazy rumors come from!

CSA: Baltimore City Court, We Rebuke You!

Greg Kane connects Pat Jessamy, Busta Rhymes, Lil' Wayne and the money fracas in the yard.

PCG, population=@850k):
PG is Much less murderous than Baltimore.

Carjacking's easy... babysitting is hard!
Keep your eyes peeled for a 1997 four-door gray Chevrolet Blazer, MD 664M308.

Politics Corner
The City Council is holding a hearing today about banning smoking in all public places.

Digging in deep dirt: O'M was charged with DUI... 20 years ago! Meanwhile, the Post has endorsed Ehrlich.

Doug Gansler's got to go to court to prove he can run for Attorney General.
What happens if he can't-- is Stu Simms the Dem. candidate?

Finally, something about the other person who'ld like to be our comptroller, Dean Anne McCarthy! I hope she and Franchot debate some big-word stuff, live and somewhere close, comfy (and early) so I can go ... how about the MICA Brown Center? ... the chances of MD electing a Republican comptroller are about the same as someone who can add going to MICA!!

Etc.
If you don't have the best CD of the year, Night Ripper, get it before some lawyer notices the whole thing is illegal! It. Is. So. Good.!!

Don't forget to read your International tabloids today!
Kate Moss is pregnant, and the British Press is covering the Macca/Mucca divorce with the gloves off ... Madonna's Keeping Her lil' Black Baby! Let's all get Baltimore City foster kids! Black babies for everyone!

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

the bodies they are talking about are:

-Shiela Ann Turner, 42, of Aberdeen, found on June 2nd in Perryman
-Lillian Abramowicz Phelps, 43, of Elkton, MD, found on June 14th near Havre de Grace
-two unidentified corpses, found Sept. 15th in Perryman

the "person of interest" in these murders, Charles Eugene Burns, 35, of Kingsville, has been held for months on attempted murder charges after choking out prostitutes (a mother and daughter at separate times, coincidentally!) in the same general area.

come on, don't you read the news?

Maurice Bradbury said...

Ok, so the Examiner's bodies are the Charles Burns bodies. We know nothing about Roxanne Amick, but she died after Burns was in jail, right?

So no bodie sin the Northwest at all?
So confused!

Anonymous said...

yeah i think burnsie was in custody before roxanne disappeared, even though it happened sort of close to his house. as far as the northwest goes, there was that big article in the sun a week or two ago dismissing all the rumors:

According to Dr. David Fowler, the state's chief medical examiner, not one female homicide has been recorded in the Northwestern District since Aug. 1, and only one woman's death was listed as "undetermined."

[...] Reports range from four to a dozen bodies found. But the only victim's name that has surfaced is Tyra McClary, who was found to have died of a drug overdose, according to the state medical examiner's office.

McClary, 36, was found Aug. 30 in a rear lot behind the 5100 block of Beaufort Ave. The cause of her death was officially listed as "undetermined," but such a ruling is common in drug overdose cases where investigators can't conclude if the death was an accident or a suicide, Fowler said.

Fowler said of the more than a dozen female fatalities that remain under investigation across the city, none sustained any traumatic injuries from violence, meaning they likely died of other causes.


speaking of the northwest, is the park heights war over or something? nobody's been murdered in that district in over two weeks!

Anonymous said...

"High and County Executive Jack B. Johnson (D) said increased money for the department, which translated into better technology, equipment and more officers on the street, contributed to the drop in all levels of crime."

So! A jurisdiction with a larger population was still able scrape together money for officers and equipment? Wow - perhaps O'Moron could have learned something about that back in 99. Or perhaps he was too busy fighting Neo-Libertarians through concensus and coming together?



....Idiot.

John Galt said...

FYI, there's never been a problem with money appropriated for officers.

The City's police department has never fully spent its appropriation for regular officers' salaries in recent years. Now, that's not to say that the salary levels offered are acceptable to job candidates of quality. But that's a management issue. Fire Lenny Hamm.

Anonymous said...

where the hell is shaken wood road?

Anonymous said...

The deal with the Park Heights War from a coworker who lives up that way:

"They" say that Zachary James was the one doing all of the shootings/killings and that when they locked him up 3 or so weeks ago, the shootings/killings stopped. "They" also say that Zachary was affiliated with either the Crips or the Bloods (my source wasn't sure who).

I guess the BCPD finally locked up the right 15 year-old.

Anonymous said...

wow, what a little monster. it's like the second coming of tyrone beane. any idea how many people exactly zach was supposed to have killed? last article i read said the cops liked him for 4 total but only charged him with 2. did the leader of his set actually instruct him to go out and kill as many people as possible or was he just showing initiative? what was he doing? robbing people? consolidating territory? chasing off rival gangsters?

Anonymous said...

From what I've heard, it's six, and probably a couple who haven't/didn't died (yet). As for the why's, apparently he was driving around shooting folks. I imagine that he was taking orders from someone, but I doubt we'll ever really know who or why.