Daughters of a 62-year-old rape victim have taken it upon themselves to
publish a sketch of the suspect (left) who attacked their mother in the driveway of her Northwest home with a barbecue fork. They claim police have "discouraged" them from publicizing the sketch.
Officer Rodney Price, who pled guilty in 2002 to the first-degree murder of Tristan Little (who was having an affair with Price's wife),
asked the court to reduce his 50-year sentence.
The murder and child abuse trial of
Nathaniel Broadway, 26, of E. 31st Street, is scheduled to begin at 9 tomorrow morning before Judge Allen L. Schwait. On June 7, 2004 Broadway and Sierra Swann, the parents of infant twin girls, were indicted for first-degree murder and child abuse in connection with the death of their one-month-old twins. The indictment charges them with the murders of Emmoney Broadway and Emmonea Broadway on May 11, 2004 at their residence. On February 13 Sierra Swann pled guilty to two counts of child abuse resulting in death and she is scheduled to be sentenced on May 30. Nathaniel Broadway and Sierra Swann are being held without bail at the Baltimore City Detention Center.
The judge in the case of Terry Jones, a 24-year-old man accused of beating his 15-year-old girlfriend to death
has reversed her decision and now
will allow DNA evidence (warning: story rife with typos). Meanwhile, during jury selection this afternoon, defendant Jones became ill and was transported to the hospital for medical care. The matter has been continued until tomorrow and will be heard in Administrative Court.
The Police Blotter has been suspiciously absent this week. Maybe Richard Irwin is on vacation, which would explain why three of the five deaths in "
Murder Ink" -- including that of an 18-month-old child -- weren't covered in the
Sun.
I think I'm getting this one right, but it seems too absurd to be true: David Allen Cullum was charged with first degree murder for
shooting his stepsister's boyfriend yesterday. The boyfriend, Billy Wayne Corbitt, had beaten her, threatened to kill her, come to Cullum's house with a gun, and continued to advance on Cullum even after he had fired a warning shot. I guess Cullum was supposed to stand there and watch his sister get murdered by Corbitt.
An 18-year-old was injured and a 25-year-old man was
shot to death in Northwest Baltimore.
A
military hearing began yesterday in Iceland for the accused murderer of Airman 1st Class Ashley Turner, a resident of Frederick.
A
Carroll County pervert has been offering middle school girls rides to school.
Dusty Shuck
may have been killed by a trucker.
A 69-year-old woman who owned an assisted-living facility was sentenced to
18 months house arrest for patient neglect. One patient died after being found with bedsores on 40% of her body, gangrene in one foot, and maggots in the other.
Robert Nicholas Pyle will do three years for
stealing a truckload of plasma TVs.
A man who
cheated the Social Security Administration for over $20,000 was sentenced to 366 days in prison.
Utech, the employer of City Council President Sheila Dixon's sister,
cannot contract with the city for at least two years.
Now that's a story: Dorothy Parker's ashes belong to the NAACP, and have been sitting in their Northwest Baltimore headquarters for years ! Parker reportedly willed her estate to MLK Jr. and the NAACP after she heard snarky Sun reporter H.L. Mencken tell racist jokes.
Somebody went to Calvert Hall: The Examiner has a 
Because he hasn't spent enough of your tax dollars yet, at Hargrove District Court this morning, Kenneth "O?r$a(i?)cl$" Ellis, 25, decided he wanted a jury trial for his "malicious destruction of property" charges. An instant jury trial for the artless ass will be scheduled or heard tomorrow in room 406 Mitchell Courthouse. 
The trial of Kenneth Ellis, 35, left, 
