On August 9, 2007 McGee shot to death Troy Richardson, 30. Richardson, using a realistic toy gun, robbed a drug dealer of narcotics in an alley off of the 3400 block of Dupont Avenue at about 1:35 p.m. McGee, informed by another drug dealer of the robbery in progress, retrieved a weapon and approached Richardson, who was still brandishing the toy gun. McGee fired three shots at Richardson, hitting him twice in the leg and once in the face. The toy gun was next to the victim when paramedics and police arrived.Assistant State’s Attorney Robin Wherley of the Homicide Division prosecuted this case.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Eight years for Killer of Toy Gun Stickup Man
At a hearing yesterday, Omar McGee, 18, of the 3400 block of Dupont Avenue pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Judge Timothy J. Doory sentenced McGee to eight years in prison. Details:
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A stickup man killed by someone named Omar. Slightly ironic.
BTW, I saw the final episode of The Wire last night. It's on bittorent for those of you who are very impatient.
Well? Did it rock your world?
If a cop asks you "What's up?" be careful how you answer.
"Well? Did it rock your world?"
I wouldn't say it did that. Parts of it were great, other parts were unsatisfying. I'm hesitant to say much more for fear of spoiling it.
Oh, here's a bit of trivia that I learned. Supposedly the character of Bill Rawls was based on a former BPD deputy ops named Ron Mullen. David Simon fans may remember him being mentioned in "Homicide" (the book, not the TV show). He became head of security at Hopkins after retiring from the BPD, but lost his job there after Linda Trinh was murdered.
That sucks, it's not like he could have prevented it.
Yeah. I don't think anyone in the school administration blamed him for the killing, but they needed to make a big show out of implementing changes. They probably figured that putting in a new head of security would look good to nervous parents. I'm sure that Buzoncrime could offer a lot more insight into this, but he may not want to discuss specific people.
Of course there's little doubt that Simon used retired Deputy Commissioner Mullen as his model for Deputy Rawls. I remember reading Homicide and Simon's description--which wasn't far off. (Of course in The Wire, there is a thin line between art and real sometimes. Nevertheless, it was hard not to make a connection for us BPD veterans.) On one hand he ruled the department's day-to-day operations with a much-feared iron fist. On the other hand, he tried to hold a standard of professionalism to a troubled and often poorly-led agency.
And he did get to retire ("lose his job") after Hopkins had two students murdered within a year or so. After the JHU President announced that they would do all it takes to secure the campus, and spend big bucks, he learned that the girls knew this guy and had often allowed him in their apartments to "hang out". Word was the prez was outraged to have committed huge bucks to security when the suspect was well known to the victim and her friends. He may have blamed Mullen for not sharing that insight with him immediately and directly. And of course they felt that they needed to make some changes to security to allay the fears of students, parents and alumni.
So, they brought in Ed Skrodzki, former Secret Service SAC for Baltimore, and upgraded security a lot. That included Hopkins buying the building where Linda was killed and having full card access and 24/7 security presence there.
Sources say that Hopkins folks are now wondering why they spend so much money on security when "nothing happens". Like, why don't we use that money to build a building or something.
Buz insight: the purpose of security is to ensure that: nothing happens.
By the way, Hopkins was just rated #1 in the country in campus safety in a survey done by Readers' Digest. (Loyola College in Maryland came in #14).
One thing that I think JHU security could be faulted for were the many non-functioning lights & emergency phones on campus. Obviously those wouldn't have saved either Chris Elser or Linda Trinh, however it's still pretty sloppy to have poorly maintained emergency phones on a campus that's located in a city like Baltimore.
skyWhen I worked at Johns Hopkins Medical campus on the 4-12 shift and I reported any emergency light or campus light out, there were fixed the next day. All emergency phones were inspected and tested regularly.
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