In a very unfortunate-yet-fitting metaphor for our city, 16-year-old
Bruce Benn was shot to death next to a bench proclaiming Baltimore to be the "Greatest City in America."
A 2006 shooting victim, who subsequently died in 2009, has been added to the homicide tally.
Gerrod Davis, who was 22 at the time of his death, will become 2011's 147th victim.
Details are sparse at the moment, but a
Bowie State student was stabbed to death on campus earlier today.
Duane "Shorty" Davis, the creator of the "Towson toilet bomb" and friend of the blog,
has been acquitted of any charges related to his leaving a toilet covered in various articles and writings outside the Towson courthouse back in February.
A 7th Baltimore cop has plead guilty to his part in the major towing scandal that has plagued Baltimore police.
Jhonn Corona, 33, plead guilty to sending accident victims to Majestic Auto Repair as well as crashing his own car in order to send false reports to his insurance company.
Arrest is made in the slaying of a Baltimore bondswoman Nichole McNair.
21-year-old Dominique Davon McDonald has been charged with first and second degree murder for the cold-blooded killing.
Dante Jeter, 24, who is still awaiting trial for the 2006 slaying of Arundel dentist Albert Ro, has been sentenced to
60 years in the 2008 City shooting of Tyrone Freeman.
There really are evil twins in the world, except this time it's not on board the Enterprise, it's over in Howard County, where 23-year-old Wael Ali is accused
of killing his twin brother Wasel Ali back in 2007. The real kicker is that after the murder Wael made several statements to the press and even created a Facebook page in remembrance for the killing. (The Ali brothers pictured right.)
A 21-year-old was
shot in the 1000 block of North Arlington Ave at late last night.
Do you recognize
this man? He's wanted by the BPD as a person of interest in the 2010 killing of Durell Cartwright.
The trial of Michael Hunter, 20 and one of two men accused of killing 72-year-old Afro paper security guard Charles Bowman, will
finally commence soon after being delayed 5 times. Hunter's co-defendent, Troy Taylor, 19, has already been sentenced to 35 years for his role in the killing.
A man has turned himself in for the second slaying in Howard County
Anthony Patrick Parker, 53, has turned himself in after a warrant was issued for his part in a fight turned stabbing that left 46-year-old Phillip Wise dead.
ATF and state police arrest over 50 suspects, including
15 who were charged federally, as part of a large scale drug sweep. Among the names that pop out to me is that of Howard Drummond, 24. Drummond, as you may remember was charged alongside Joel Ugah, 25 back in 2008 for the murder of
Sandy Howard and non-fatal shooting of two others. Both were acquitted of a all charges. Howard was sentenced to 10 years in state prison for various drug dealing charges, and Ugah, who was again charged with attempted murder for a 2010 incident, is currently facing drug and gun charges in the city and county.
This may be a hard sell to some... but a Baltimore methadone clinic
wants to pay addicts in order to get them to come in at night and use methadone.
More trouble at Maryland colleges. This time it's at UMD, where police are releasing a video of a
person of interest in the on-campus sexual assault of a female student.
A 14-year-old Anne Arundel girl was sexually assaulted, and police are ISO two suspects, including one who
sort of looks like John Lennon.
A man in Trappe, MD has been arrested for possession of a handgun when
his gun fell out of his jacket after he ran into a police officer.
Severn resident
Peter Dembrowicz, 30, was found dead in a stream earlier, foul play is not suspected.
State police officially conclude that teacher Alice Davis was in fact murdered by her husband Jess Davis, 57.
New Jersey's Uzodimma Nnamdi Oguh, age 32, has been charged with
human trafficking for running a prostitution ring throughout the east coast.
Two years in Federal prison for creeper attorney
Patrick Joseph Redd, 33.
Finally, 10 years for
9-time convict Skky Townsend, 29. Townsend got his decade behind bars after being caught with crack and weapons in his Pocomoke home.