Shadowy figures

Police released a photo of suspects fleeing the scene of the shooting death of Dr. Peter Marvit* on Chesterfield Ave in Belair-Edison. Police theorize that Marvit was robbed because thieves mistook him for a food-delivery person.

Kevin Rector ‏@RectorSun

Boy, 15, shot in leg near Johns Hopkins Hospital: http://bsun.md/P5XyGi *

Life w/o parole for William Ward III and Frank Williams,* convicted of murdering Rodney Pridget outside the Nordstrom Rack.

The funeral of 16 y/o vicim Ahjee Harrod is today at the Southern Baptist church at 1701 N. Chester 

Pimp Marco Sanchez got five years for importing 100 hos

In the Northern district someone was robbed of something called a "Wussi scooter"*

Ah Baltimore, where the comptroller is suing the mayor. 

This just in (again): the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 2.2 million people currently @the belly of the beast. Prof. to Bloomberg: "The model is, if you built it, they will come."

Fenton profiles The Rev. CD Witherspoon,* local community activist/onetime city council candidate. Good for him, speaking up for change. But please, Rev, do not sully your rep by hanging out with J. Wyndal Gordon, the "Warrior Lawyer." You may recall Gordon was Frank Conaway's attorney who had some choice Jew-hating sentiments during the Adam Meister assalt/unlicensed concealed weapon kerfuffle*: "'When you have a situation where you have a Jewish victim and an African-American male, you have things happen differently than if it happened to be a regular case,' [Gordon] said. He suggested that 'perhaps because of their commonality in their religion ... ' " Cortly should find himself some nice liberal social-activist Jews to hang out with next, dontchathink?

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Dr. Peter Marvit, 51, left (via AP) was shot to death in the 2800 block of Chesterfield Avenue* near Belair Road and Herring Run Park last night. MG Hare reports that he was shot in the head and chest while parking his car; police think was an attempted robbery. According to the Internets, Marvit attended Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, Oberlin College and got his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a clinical trials researcher for the NIH at the University of Maryland.

A 21-year-old was shot last night on E. 21st St.* near Charles

"That's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talking guy." Bernstein's taking heat from Charles Villagers,* incensed that one Lonnie Butler of Worser Waverly was sentenced to time served for dealing heroin by Judge Barry Williams, in spite the fact that Butler was on probation when he got caught. (He does have quite the resume, that Lonnie P. Butler b. 1958, a veritable smorgasbord that includes calling in a fake bomb threat to breaking n' entering and assault.) (Bernstein correctly pointed out that he can't tell judges what to do, but don't prosecutors have to agree to deals?) Charles Village court-watcher Steve Gerwitz has another busy week ahead, with armed robbers/ burglars and carjackery on the docket.

Yay, a picture of the meshuggah Oldsmobile-driver in White Marsh who tried to run over a lady she thought had stolen hear parking place (and also the bystander writing down her info). Note the tear on her right cheek. She was ID'd as Brandy Tennille Ames, 35, of Harr Park Court in Edgewood, and she's being held on $1 million bail. She's being charged with first-degree assault, but not attempted murder.

Uhm, whut? A 40-year-old man in HoCo, Donnell Vannison, was sentenced to 60 days in the pen, relating to an incident in which he went to Long Reach High School in a ski mask to seek out the teenager who'd allegedly thrown a French fry at his sister two days before. Said teen responded by using the long reach he'd been studying to deck Vannison and knock him out cold, an indignity caught by some student's camera phone. Naturally, the video "went viral" on WorldStarHipHop.

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The body of a 26-year-old woman was found dumped in the parking lot next to Oldtown Mall. The mall, really just a shopping strip, is a notorious heck-hole; in 1999 it burned down, for years it's been a mostly-vacant eyesore, in 2009 it housed the China Garden restaurant from which the murderers of victim Tien Zin Wang ordered his last delivery.* The woman was shot in the torso.

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A Fenton article in the Sun and WaPo today gives more details on the life and death of scientist and dad Peter Marvit, shot to death in Belair-Edison. (thanks evaline)

David Simon and the City Paper are scandalized about what they say are "new rules" for charging homicides emanating from Gregg Berstein's office, which give the SAO "unilateral" authority to decide to charge suspects with murder. The alleged rules have allegedly tied the hands of detectives and resulted in half as many homi­cide cases being pros­e­cuted by his office than under Jessamy. Simon and Ericsson also accuse the SAO's office of doling out demotions or transfers to any detective who disagrees with the policy, and of providing misleading statistics to reporters, then, when called on it, claiming that the stats don't matter. Bernstein's office denies both that there's a new policy and that homicide prosecutions are down (no word on the retaliatory demotions). Hrm. (If the new policy exists, then surely it's for a reason-- why deny it?)

Anna Ditkoff's Murder Ink recaps last week's seven homicides

Our own little Chris Brown, Aquille Carr, will have his babymom-kicking-and-punching-related charges dropped if he completes a domestic violence program.*

A burglar burgled the offices of 43rd District Reps Maggie McIntosh, Curt Anderson and Mary Washington, making off with a laptop. The Patch notes that 6th district City Council rep Sharon Green Middleton also was burglarized a month ago. And a few blocks away a JHU security officer caught a burglar breaking in to the Moxie Hair Studio.

Police warn Canton residents of (another) string of burglaries, from a brazen thief who likes to strike between 3-11 p.m. by coming right in the front door.

Matthew Long, grandson of the murdered Peppers who drove off in their car and was found in a coma in a Weatherford, Oklahoma Travel Inn, left a note saying "sorry for what I did."

Twenty big fat federal years for Rodney "Rocco" Peters of the Gettis drug organization from Judge Motz. Peters was the 28th member of the organization to plead guilty, others have included "Captain," "Cutty Rock," and "D-Squared."

A drive-by paintball-shooting in Old Goucher

Four bald pot dealers were arrested in Glen Burnie

Police in AAC are looking for a guy who robbed a bank in Annapolis wearing a ... what is that? Charlie Sheen? Matthew Broderick? Rod Blagojevich? ...  anyway some kind of creepy mask of a white guy with a cowlick.

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An unidentified woman killed on Fairlawn Ave is homicide #171*, and a man was shot in the leg near where Peter Marvit and Kwame Stern were killed a mere 2-3 weeks ago. There have been 19 women murdered so far this year.

Wasted tax dollars! Lives destroyed! With his Oct 17 City Council conformation hearing "looming," Fenton takes on the Oakland PD's unConstitutional policing problems under former chief Batts.* One probable reason why Oakland got oversight (and Baltimore never has): the sheer # of plaintiffs involved in the 2000 "Riders" lawsuit (aka Allen v. City of Oakland) -- 119 plaintiffs who wound up sharing an $11 million settlement. 

Disparate youth

19-year-old Charles Fuller was shot to death near Patterson Park* (#175). The Baltimore Guide reports 14 incidents of street robbery including seven gun robberies in the Southeast since 9/30

Justin Fenton ‏@justin_fenton

Crime Beat blog weekend recap: 8 shot in Baltimore over the weekend, incl 18-yr-old girl and 2 outside Club Mirage http://bsun.md/SY4JuP *

Justin Fenton ‏@justin_fenton

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Police believe the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Tashawna Jones in Harwood was a domestic incident http:// bsun.md/SY4JuP *

Also Fenton revisits Oliver a decade after the Dawson family * was burned up in their home for "snitching" on neighborhood drug dealers. .. speaking of Moltov cocktails, I wonder what became of Edna McAbier, who went into witness protection after thugs threw some down her chimney in Harwood?

A police car responding to a shooting on Jack St. struck and killed a pedestrian,* Leondionas Dias Perez, on E. Patapsco Ave

Dayone Jackson, 20, was charged with shooting the Cherry Hill pizza deliveryman*

"For shooting at three Baltimore City police officers and striking one, Gerry Gough, 24, pled guilty on Friday to attempted first-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder, and a handgun violation. The plea agreement calls for a sentence of life in prison with all but 40 years suspended, followed by three years of probation."

Counties:

Two (black) 18-year-olds were arrested for the murder of (white) MMA fighter Matthew Morrow at a party in Pasadena

38 y/o Jermaine Dalton was murdered in Baltimore County

Civics: 
The Brew with the Ivy bookshop reviews three Baltimore-related social-history and urban planning tomes.

Did you know the Perkins and Latrobe projects used to be "white" public housing? Interesting presentation from the ACLU on the history of Baltimore's segregated public housing and the issues facing Cherry Hill and Westport.

"Bloody Pi"

Four murdered this weekend, including a man killed at 3008 Chesterfield Ave. in what the commander of the NE called a "drug deal gone bad" two blocks from where Dr. Peter Marvit was killed six days ago; Antoine Sellers was found shot to death in the 600 block of Dumbarton Ave; Nabil Epps was stabbed to death on W. North Ave Friday, a man was found shot to death in the basement of a house in the 2700 block of Mura St. on the East side near Kennedy Krieger. And a man shot Thurs was ID'd as Audie Mickens*

City police shot a robbery suspect this morning; county police shot and killed a guy in Dundalk yesterday

Fenton reTweeted a pic of twentysomethings swarming the Recher Saturday night; "que" = Omega Psi Chi (ΩΨΦ) which has chapters at both Towson ("Iota Epsilon") and Morgan ("Bloody Pi") -- though of course note that it's unknown if any of the frat boys had anything to do with the rioting or shooting

Police say a man died after swallowing a bunch of drugs to avoid arrest, Fenton added via Twitter "Clarification/correction on last tweet: they initially believed he choked on drugs,but say its not clear whether he OD'd or died another way"

A couple of bank robbers got Rosensteined

A JZ story on the Aug 6 murder of Anthony Cureton in front of his mom's house in Cherry Hill makes it sound like a murder w/no arrests and no clues from a nearby crime camera is some kind of exception

Security upgrades to social services offices* five months after Pretty Diamond was stabbed by her mother and saved by a social worker who whacked Pretty's mom in the head with a chair; Kenisha Thomas goes on trial next month.

Meister finds a Zen koan of a 'No on 6' flier on Eutaw while out for a run: “My Mommy is my Daddy & my Daddy is my Mommy. So, who is my Aunt?” Urhm, Maggie Gallagher? ... Word on the street is the "Jumping the Broom" group was also out canvassing in Charles Village this weekend, which I'm sure went over like poop in a shoe. Here's their hideously offensive page, or if you have outrage fatigue, the concise summary from the "Holy Bullies" blog: "Maryland online store exploits African-Americans, babies, and slavery to promote homophobia." And is peddling some surprisingly expensive items, like $46 meals for poll workers ... and surprise, surprise, can't find a single "Dr. Sharon Jones" from Maryland on the Internets. 

2012's 217 murders

217. Unidentified man, 24, Bryant Avenue (12/31)

216. Monday Griffin, 18, 2500 block of Woodbrook Avenue (12/31)

215. Thomas Cunion, 27, 1100 block of Webb Court, Latrobe Homes (12/24)

214. Rebecca A. Coughenour, 200 block of Atholgate Lane (12/20)

213. Unidentified man, 1700 block of Gwynns Falls Pkwy. 12/18

212. Michael Randolph Robinson Jr., 26, 2800 block of Winwood Court (12/15)

211. Avon Ball, 26, 5200 block of Reistertown Road (12/14)

210. Todd Duffie, 36, 3200 block of Lyndhurst Ave (12/13)

209. Terrell Logan, 24, 1500 block of Shields Place (12/10)

208. Delma Barnes, 35, 5200 block of Frankford Ave (12/7)

207. Angelo Ward, 25, 800 block of Brooks Lane (12/8)

206. Brent Nickens, 22, 2300 block of Westwood Ave. (12/7)

205. Thomas Rawlings, 24, 1800 block of N. Fulton St. (12/7)

204. James Vincent, 55, 400 N. Duncan St (12/2)

203. Paris Russell, 2, 1400 block of Broening Hwy (12/2)

202. Kearrie Dion Ware, one month, 300 block of East 22nd Street (11/25)

201. Tremaine Johnson, 34, 500 block of N. Calhoun St. (11/25)

200. Daqwon Artis, 16, 2200 block of Barclay Ave. (11/25)

199. James Johnson, 22, 1300 block of Laurens St. (11/24)

198. Adonay Garcia-Wilson, 22, 2800 block of Boarman Ave (11/21)

197. Daniel Pearson, 16, block of 2600 Greenmount Ave. (11/20)

196. Richard Erdeck, 3900 block of Woodhaven Avenue (11/18)

195. Richard Redd, 66, 3000 block of Elgin Avenue (11/16)

194. Christopher Briggs, 18, 28th and Fenwick (11/14)

192, 193. Darian Horton, 19, and Allen Horton, 23, 2500 block of W. Lafayette Ave. (11/13)

191. Donnell Bishop, 1800 block of N. Rutland Ave (11/12)

190. Joshua Boone, 26, 5100 block of Goodnow Rd (11/9)

189. Joshua Noble, 25, 500 block of S Lomgwood St (11/6)

188. Deborah Simon, 55, 1200 block of Washington Blvd (11/5)

187. Anthony Diggs, 29, 2600 block of E. Monument St. (shot 3/17/01, d. 11/2012)

186. Lawrence M. Thomas, Jr., 26, 3125 Artaban Place

185. Terrence Seale, 29, 1200 Linworth Ave (11/4)

184. Dewey Hampton, 47, 6000 Marjorie Lane (10/31)

183. Erwin Daniels, 30, 600 block of N. Lakewood Avenue

182. William Simmons, 32, 5318 Carriage Court (11/2)

181. Michael Allen, 40, 1100 block of Homewood Ave (10/30 or 31)

180. Shawn A. Brown, 40, 700 block of N Rose St (10/26)

179. James "Eddy Kane" Utley, 26, 1400 block of E. Preston (10/24)

178. Alonzo Gladden, 24, 3700 block of Victor St. (10/24)

177. Unidentified 60-year-old man, 3100 block of E. Garrison Blvd.

176. Darius Taybron, E. Hoffman and N. Milton

175. Charles Fuller, 19, 3000 block of E Baltimore St (10/14)

174. Tashawna Jones, 18, 300 block E 26th St (10/12)

173. Merv Douglas, 51, 2300 block of N Charles (10/11)

172. Curtis Jones, 28, 600 block of Dumbarton Avenue (10/8)

171. Ahjee Harrod, 16, 6300 block of Fairlawn Avenue (10/7)

170. Dimitri Staten, 37, 1800 block ofW Lanvale St (10/3)

169. Randy Owens, 19, 200 block of N. Fulton Ave (10/3)

168. Sean Melton Sr., 43, 2800 Quantico Avenue (10/3)

167. Elliot Lee, 28, 600 block of Belnord Avenue (9/30)

166. Queren Thomas, 35, 200 block of Reedbird Avenue (9/29)

165. Nana Mensah, 19, 400 block of South Augusta Avenue (9/28)

164. David Ervin, 41, 3623 Old York Road (9/26)

163. Anthony Kasier, 45, Linwood Avenue (9/24)

162. Will Edmondson, 35, 1800 block of Mosher St. (9/25)

161. Johnny Smith, 74, 2100 Cliftwood Ave. (7/5/1997)

160. Antoine Sellers, 600 Dumbarton Ave

159. Nabil Epps, 34, 2700 W. North Avenue (9/21)

158. Tony Reese, 2700 block of Mura St.(9/23)

157. Kwame Stern, 22, 3008 Chesterfield Avenue (9/24)

156. Audie Mickens, 24, 1700 Presbury St. (9/23)

155. Clarence Ross, 200 South Pulaski St.

154. Rasheedah Shenae Muhammad, 26, 500 Old Town Mall (9/18)

153. Peter Marvit, 51, 2800 block of Chesterfield Ave (9/17)

152. Miguel Crosby, 500 block of Coventry Rd. (9/15)

Suspicious Death, Unidentified, 900 block of St. Dunstans Rd. (9/13)

151. Freddie King, 38, 2600 Kent St. (9/8)

150. Donte Harris Sr. 21, 2900 block of Rockrose Ave. (8/30)

149. Maurice McCoy, 28, 300 block of Gold St. (9/8)

148. Rudolph Horton, 36, 1400 block of E. Holbrook (9/6)

147. Sherron Small, 42, 5400 block of Seward Avenue (9/4)

146. Unidentified man, 40, 500 block of West Hoffman St. (9/4)

145. Rashawn Muhammad, 20, 2700 Beryl Ave. (9/3)

144. Damon Vaughn, 21, 2600 block of Boone St. (9/3)

143. Jose Carranza, 32, 200 block of South Eaton St. (9/3)

142. Andre Scott, 25, 5600 block of Frankford Avenue (9/3)

141. LaRelle Ashlyn Amos, 22, 4800 block of the Alameda (9/3)

140. Darrien Jackson, 1300 block of Lakewood Avenue (9/1)

139. Joseph Alexander "Alex" Ulrich, 40, 9 E. Chase St. (8/10)

138. Lindale Carrington, 33, 600 block of Brisbane Road 8/24)

137. Kristie Hufnagel, 41, (unknown date prior to 7/21)

136. Terrance Gough, 26, Mountview Road (8/23)

135. Charles Canty, 65, 1700 block of North Carey Street (8/22)

134. Lovell Spencer, 19, 1700 block of Cole Street (8/21)

133. Sterling Parker, 61, 1900 block of Wallbrook Avenue (8/20)

132. Anthony Diaz , 3200 block of Walbrook Ave. (8/20)

131. Robert Hardy Jr., 33, 4200 block of Hamilton Ave. (8/16)

130. Diane Edwards, 53 or 54, 4200 block of Hamilton Ave. (8/16)

128. and 129. Euclides and Troy Manly, 600 block of Linnard St. (8/15)

127. Joseph Alexander "Alex" Ulrich, Jr., 40, 9 E. Chase St. (8/10)

126. Anthony Cureton, 28, 2700 Giles Rd. (8/06)

125. Jeffery Thomas, 24, 3000 W Garrison Ave. (8/04)

124. Ezra Bunch, 27, 5100 Reisterstown Rd. Stabbed: (7/23/12) Added: (8/4/12)

123. Marvin Jones, 30, 3003 Rosedale Ct. (8/03)

122. Janerio Keys, 26, 4400 Parkton St. (8/02)

121. Javon Blackwell, 20, 1200 Poplar Grove St. (8/01)

120. Antwan Bryant, 20, 2400 Frederick Ave. (7/31)

119. Charles Johnson, 50, 1800 W North Ave. (7/30)

118. Jermaine Blue, 30, 1400 block of Poplar Grove St. (7/28)

117. Derian Hampton, 21, 1200 block of North Caroline St (7/27)

116. Herman Regis , 67, 5900 block of Eurith Ave. (7/27)

115. Hamin Bridges, 34, 1000 block of Evesham Ave. (7/26)

114. Franklin Morris, Jr., 34, 1500 block of Smallwood Street (7 /26)

113. Brandon Spruill, 23, 1500 block of McKean Ave (7/23)

112. Darryl Thomas, 32, 4300 block of 6th St (07/17)

111. Quintin Winder, 35, 5500 block of Lothian Rd. (07/16)

110. Vernonda Fenner, 43, 4100 W. Forest Park Ave. Shot:(01/18/01) Died:(05/04)

109. Eric Brown, 43, 3200 Spaulding Ave. (7/08)

108. Lee Lumpkin, 35, 1000 block of Leadenhall St. (7/06)

107. Andrew Davis, 27, 3400 block of Ravenwood Ave. (7/05)

106. Kenneth Williams, 35, 400 block of Laurens St. (7/05)

105. Lance Johnson, 40, 2300 block of Eutaw Place (7/05)

104. Yarndragus Stanton, 26, 1400 block of East Preston St. (7/03)

103. Neal Gaines, 41, 2100 Denison St. (6/29)

102. Lloyd Grant, 600 block of Norfolk Ave. (6/26)

101. Deangelo Bess, 25, 1000 N. Central Ave. (6/24)

100. Lewis Womack, 36, 4000 block of Boarman Ave. (6/20)

99. Tavon Whelchel, 18, 2100 block of W. Pratt St. (6/19)

98. Desmare Braxton, 1, 800 block of North Stricker St. (6/13)

97. Ronald Dawson, 28, 2600 block of W. Patapsco Ave. (6/11)

96. Vernon Williams Jr, 19, 400 block of E. 21st St. (6/08)

95. Donnie Robinson, 23, 3600 block of Beehler Ave. (6/05)

94. Thomas Mattox, 26, 4400 block of Pall Mall Rd. (6/05)

93. Leon Thornton, 22, 4400 block of Pall Mall Rd. (6/05)

92. Charles Goodman, 23, 3400 block of East Lombard St. (6/04)

91. Michael Sullivan, 55, 5514 Belair Rd. (6/04)

90. Edmond Dabney, 64, 4600 block of Pimlico Ave. (6/03)

89. Antonio Mattison, 42, 1200 block of E. Lafayette Ave. (6/02)

88. Desean Bowman, 18, 1400 E. Fayette St. (6/02)

87. Calvin Matthews, 25, 3000 block of E. Preston St. (5/31)

86. Quintin Butler, 30, 1100 Myrtle Ave. (5/29)

85. Ettice Jones, 47, 1200 block of Woodbourne Ave. (5/28)

84. Amber Brown, 24, 3100 block of Hamilton Ave. OD'd: (4/18) Added: (05/28)

83. Olivia Palmer, 6 Months,1600 block of E. Coldspring Lane (5/27)

82. Dawan Evans, 25, 600 block of Pitcher St. (5/26)

81. Lanell Ausby, 22, 2500 block of Edgecombe Circle (5/26)

80. Andre Curry, 28, 2600 block of East Preston St. (5/24)

79. James Shird, 18, 4600 block of York Rd. (5/24)

78. Jacqueline Laster, 47, 2500 block of West Fayette St.. (5/24)

77. Tavon Frederick, 35, 3300 block of Westerwald Ave. (5/23)

76. Sylvester Rodgers, 58, 600 block of N. Carey St. (5/22)

75. George Stevenson, 43, 2600 block of Matthews St. Stabbed: (04/24) Died:(5/18)

74. Dominique Barnes, 20, 2600 block of Matthews St. (5/20)

73. Jeffrey McFadden, 35, 2000 block of Frederick Ave (5/14)

72. Travis Miller, 27, 1100 block of N. Milton Ave. (5/14)

71. Lacy Lamb, 19, 1600 block of East 32nd St. (5/13)

70. Dominick Brown, 24, 200 block of Herring Ct. (5/13)

69. Derrick Lawson, 33, 4000 block of West Franklin St. (5/13)

Thomas Weddington, 34, 2600 block of Park Heights Terrace (5/13)

68. Christopher Mobley, 28, 3400 block of Piedmont Ave. (5/08)

67. Cornell Booker, 46, 300 block of Whitridge Ave. (5/08)

66. Terrence Anderson, 19, 600 block of North Eutaw St. (5/08)

65. Shavar Little, 28, 1900 block of Aisquith St. (5/08)

64. Robert Bond, 21, 3000 Oakley Ave. (5/06)

63. Quintin Poindexter, 18, 4100 Alto Rd. (5/05)

62. Cheryl Thomas, 44, 400 Cummings Ct. (5/03)

Suspicious Death, Unidentified Male, 5500 block of Belleville Ave. (4/29)

Suspicious Death, Karen Huskey, 25, 600 block of West Ostend St. (4/29)

61. Rayner Veney, 51, 3400 Ravenwood Ave. Shot: (6/20/11) Died: (04/27/12)

60. Cortez Lemon, 23, 400 W. Saratoga St. (4/27)

Michael Williams, 45, 2500 Harlem Ave. (4/25)

59. Floyd Dorsey, 59, 4100 Norfolk Ave. (4/24)

58. Mark Day, 43, 1500 W. North Ave. Shot: (08/23/10) Died: (3/14)

57. Willie Battle, 19, 2700 block of Boarman Ave. (4/23)

56. Somchanh Sipayboun, 37, 5400 block of Hillburn Ave. (4/23)

55. Derrick Smith, 33, 3200 Belair Rd. (4/18)

54. Marvin Buckson, 29, 1700 N Spring St. (4/17)

53. Torey Garrison, 34, 4700 Liberty Heights Ave. (4/16)

52. Ricardo Mabray, 27, 1300 Aisquith St. (4/16)

51. Clarence Nicholson, 31, 2000 block of Rayner Ave. (4/15)

50. Phillip Scott, 34, 1900 block of Etting St. (4/15)

49. Brandon Simms, 23, 400 block of Watty Ct. (4/13)

48. Leslie Johnson, 30, 800 Jack St. Shot:(1997) Died: (01/30)

47. Justin Marasa, 22, 1400 block of Holbrook St. (4/08)

46. Robert Laney, 33, Kirk Ave. & Fillmore St. (4/08)

45. Jermaine Shuron, 37, 1700 block of North Calhoun St. (4/07)

44. Dion Brandon, 30, 900 Belgian Ave. Shot:(2005) Died: (04/02)

43. Javell Heath, 19, 1100 E Belvedere Ave. Shot:(3/27) Died: (03/29)

42. Marcus Williams, 29, 1000 block of E. 22nd St. (4/01)

41. Chauncey Hardy, 59, 900 block of Valley St. (3/30)

40. Tyree Cypress, 19, 6200 block of Pioneer Dr. (3/27)

39. Aaron Evans, 5 Months, 3000 block of Baker St. Died:(1/30) Added: (03/27)

38. Adam Robinson, 26, 4000 block of Idaho Ave. (3/25)

37. Rodrick Burden, 18, 800 block of West Fayette St. (3/24)

36. Ronnell Chaney, 20, 500 block of E. 21st St. (3/20)

35. Jonathan Hutchinson, 24, 1600 block of Traction St. (3/21)

34. Dexter Jones Jr., 23, 2600 W North Ave. (3/20)

33. Dominic Thornton, 37, 6400 E Pratt St. (3/19)

32. Gregory Parker, 54, 2300 E Chase St. (3/16)

31. Fareed Caldwell, 25, 3500 W Belvedere Ave. (3/16)

30. Timothy Harris, 47, 900 block of N. Port St. (3/13)

29. Sherard Houston, 38, 1000 E Hoffman St. (3/10)

28. Javon Johnson, 21, 2200 W. North Ave. (3/07)

27. Steven Fields, 19, 3500 W. Mulberry St. (03/05)

26. John Edwards, 17, 3500 W. Mulberry St. (03/05)

25. Tyrice Forney, 21, 400 block of Oxford Ct. (03/04)

24. Monae Turnage, 13, 1600 block of Cliftview Ave. (03/04)

23. Terrence Joyner, 42, 4500 block of Marble Hall Rd. (03/04)

22. Oswaldo Santana, 21, 4700 Blk Windsor Mill Rd. (02/29)

21. Mya Carr, 5, 3400 block of Callaway Ave. (02/28)

20. Guy Randall, 46, 400 block of North Kenwood Ave. (02/25)

19. Thomas Atkins Jr., 32, 2200 block of North Fulton Ave. (02/23)

18. Orville Chamblee, 47, 2700 block of E. Chase St. (02/19)

Brandon Washington, 26, 1600 block of North Bond St. (02/17)

17. Jerry Isaac, 22, 2800 block of Greenmount Ave. (02/13)

16. Kyndal Staten, 27, 5200 block of Darien Rd. (02/12)

15. Johnny McFadden, 62, 2900 block of Haverford Rd. (02/09)

14. Gregory Kearney, 28, 900 E. Preston St. (02/06)

13. Corey Alexander, 31, 5700 block of Nasco Pl. (02/01)

12. Norris Conley, 26, 4300 block of Greenhill Ave. (02/01)

11. Shayvon Booker, 19, 200 block of S. Loudon Ave. (01/29)

10. Travis Spencer, 24, 4400 Park Heights Ave. (01/27)

9. Audrey Collins, 68, 3600 Cottage Ave. Died:(09/01/11)Added:(01/20)

8. Dominic Hope, 32, 1600 block of West Baltimore St. (01/20)

7. James Rice, 18, 4300 block of Cedargarden Rd. (01/18)

6. James Hunter, 30, 500 block of Edgewood St. (01/12)

5. Joseph Curtis, 65, Southwest Baltimore Alley. Died:(05/28/11)Added:(01/09)

4. Raymon Parrott, 35, 4100 block of Mariban Ct. (01/08)

3. Doral Hinton, 27, 2400 block of Ashland Ave. (01/06)

2. Mary Hines, 84, 2600 block of E. Biddle St. (01/05)

1. Bruce Royster, 62, 4000 block of Edgewood Rd. (01/03)

2012: the Year that Was

361 posts we did this year. Cray cray!

So, here's a quick recap of the year's most interesting nuggets. The 197th homicide file for 2011 was Phylicia Barnes. Her accused killer, Michael Johnson, was set to go on trial August 13 of 2012, but various postponements and motions have us started 2013 with no jury seated yet.

About this time last year, the cover was closed on the slim novella that was Adam Meister n' Frank Conaway keruffle, but not before Team Conaway brought toilets and megaphones to Meister's house, distasteful anti-Semetic sentiments were bandied about and Meister posted a classic AfrAm article that noted Frank Conaway's arrest for wife-beating 40 years ago.

DNA evidence helped bring about the conclusion of the Skateworks gang-rape trial, the leader of the crew that victimized a 12-year-old girl got 10 years.

February brought reports of drones crisscrossing the Baltimore skies, 1999 Owings Mills High grad Majid Khan pleading guilty at Gitmo and promising to snitch on other detainees (so will he be going to the 15th reunion, or what?) and the (presumably) accidental death of 13-year-old Monae Turnage, who was shot to death by a 13-year-old boy playing with a gun he found under his mom's bed. The boy, his 12-year-old friend and their mom* Vernoica Alford (like the plea!) buried Turnage's body under trash bags, and for reasons unknown city officer John Ward put the murder weapon in his car. The 13-year-old was sent to a juvie facility for >3 years.

In March, SRB told BHO that she's not going to enforce the country's immigration laws. City police officer Daniel Redd pleaded guilty to dealing heroin from the NW district police-station parking lot, in September he got 20 years. The second trial for the brothers Travers and Tremayne Johnson kicked off. The boys were accused of setting a pit bull on fire, in April a jury took an hour to find them not guilty. Travers has also faced burglary, 2nd-degree attempted murder and handgun charges, he's on probation. In August Tremayne was arrested and charged with drug possession. Saint Patrick's Day revelry lead to a caught-on-video beatdown that made national news. And charges were dropped in the case anti-abortion activists hate to love, that of two eeeeeeee NJ doctors who started late-term abortions in the Guido state and ended them in Cecil County. Where they kept a freezerful of fetuses. And three nine-year-old girls and an 8-year-old boy were removed from school in handcuffs after they tried to drown a kid.

In April, life in prison for Malcolm Pulliam, who shot the owner of the Blessed Productions hair salon in the head four times, the blessed woman's life was saved by her blessed hairdo.  ... and I wonder what happened to the blogging crackhead at The Relapse Diary, who posted for three months then stopped? Speaking of relapses, boozy-cruisy Carl Snowden was arrested -- on 4/20, no less-- puffing on a blunt in a car parked by Druid Hill Park with the windows down (and in the company of a sex offender). He was convicted on charges and got 60 days in jail (suspended, of course), and retired (meaning, departed with pension, I assume) his job as head of Gansler's Civil Rights division in the Attorney General's office last week (a no-show job if I ever heard of one). He is/was also the chairman of the Annapolis Housing Authority.

In May, TAB blogged about Towson's hipster bandit, who turned out to be one Jason Lee Hadelman, a bohunk yokel career stick-up guy from York, PA in "disguise," likely busted by his FB self-portraits. More static between certain members of the local African_american activist community and certain chosen people as the Shomrim case wrapped up, with Hebrew hammer Eliyahu Werdesheim found guilty of second-degree assault and false imprisonment * and given no jail time for hopping out of his Miata to break a suspicious-looking teenager's arm. The 15-year-old victim, Corey Ausby, refused to testify against him. Jeff Barnd was revealed as the voice behind right-wing push-poll robocalls*.

June brought the hundredth homicide of the year, and a photographer punched at HonFest by a large bald man with a pink pimp chalice (wonder if they ever found that guy?) Hampton Mansion's for a "Slave for a Day" event  was renamed after the Park Service got angry phone calls. TAB and I went and shot some guns. And Joan Pratt took the mayor to task for the purchase of $659,000 worth of video phones.

In July, a circumcised man flashed a Roland Park housewife. Gregg Bernstein's son Owen was arrested for hijinks and brawling. The 104th homicide victim was named Yarndragus. Murder charges were dropped* against the alleged co-founder of the Dead Man Inc. prison gang, Perry "Saho the Ghost" Roark, but he pleaded guilty to racketeering and other charges in exchange for life in prison. A 36-year-old HIV-positive man, Steven Podles, used the app Grindr to find and have condomless sex with a 13-year-old boy.

August brought the boozy wreck of Don Dwyer's pleasure boat, The Legislator. Pimp Daniel O'Brien kept his dirty money in a Hennessy box. Sterling Parker, 61, was killed in a dispute over some small children he was babysitting,* wonder whatever happened in that case? Trikki Rikki Spector's illegal billing of the city for her commuting costs to her own district came to light, and nobody cared. Patterson high basketball phenom, 5'7" 147 pound Aquille Carr was arrested for beating on his baby's mom. He was sentenced to some classes at the House of Ruth. Carr finished out the school year at the Princeton Day Academy in Lanham, MD, apparently didn't lose his scholarship and is settling into his dorm at Seton Hall right now.

Hood draping! Napkins as toilet paper! In September a CP cover story schooled us all on the ways of Charles Village's shady ladies. Handlebar moustaches! Pot planes! Stash houses! Scores of conspirators faced charges in the massive Nicka conspiracy. The murder of scientist Peter Marvit (still unsolved) terrified the Herring Run Park area. The police-involved killing of drug addict Anthony Anderson inflamed tensions on the East side. 

The fall seemed to bring on an uptick in crimes against women. There was the murders of Ahjee Herrod, 18-year-old Tashawna Jones and 57-year-old sedan driver Queren Thomas. In October a jogger was raped in Fell's Point. In spite of old allegations that he threw a mug at a lover, Anthony Batts was confirmed as commissioner. Tyrone Alson shot his girlfriend in the head. And 51-year-old Deborah Simon was stabbed to death in her home on Washington Blvd.

November was the election, same-sex marriage, slots and BHO, oh my! Accused child-killers Policarpio Espinoza and Adnan Canela's third trial began. Elmo's creator, Kevin Clash, faced the first of what would eventually be four underage-sex accusers. And the imprisoning of Saho the Ghost in July didn't stop some Dead Mans from harboring drugs and an alligator.

Finally, December. Congratulations for reading up to this point. The Spectator Standoff, the manhunt for the woman who drove over Delma Barnes, a "not criminally responsible" for skitzoid cannabal Alexander Kinuya... and if you want any more you'll have to read the archives yourself.