David Elijah Washington was fatally shot early Saturday morning in an alley near his home on Violet Ave.
A man was critically injured in a triple shooting in the 2100 block of Sherwood Ave. in the Northeast on Friday afternoon. Homicide detectives are investigating.
Jada Gordon, 1, and Jerrell Wise, 3, who'd been missing from Cherry Hill since Wednesday have been found, but police are still looking for Tyronda Smith-Carroll, the 14-year-old girl who was taking care of them when they were reported missing.
Crime scene video from the stabbing of 57-year-old Karen Harris, who was stabbed in the back last Sunday afternoon during a robbery in the 2600 block of St. Paul St. in Charles Village. George T. Dyson was charged in the attack; he was charged with a similar attack in 2004, but did not serve time because of a mental disorder that prevented him from being found criminally responsible.
Gary Singley, age 40, of Baltimore was sentenced Friday to 167 months (almost 14 years) in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. "A cooperator in the case purchased more than 50 grams of crack cocaine from Singley through Keith Richardson ... Richardson pleaded guilty to drug charges and was sentenced to over 10 years in prison [in] 2005."
PGC MS-13 member Edgar Alberto Ayala got 35 years for racketeering.
The fight at the Metropolitan Transition Center was apparently between two rival gangs. Fortunately, the situation was not a riot, because a "riot is when you lose control of a prison."
Completely unrelated to the story above, two Jessup inmates attacked each other with homemade knives on Saturday. Meanwhile, all prison classes on making homemade knives have been temporarily suspended.
Related to the above story, there's a neat timeline detailing the history of violence at the Maryland Pen.
Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge Patrick Cavanaugh, as quoted during the double murder trial of "Six" Sowers: "With all due respect, ma'am, a mistake is when you miscount your change, not when you murder two people." Sowers got 100 years.
Two students -- one of them a 16-year-old freshman -- at Milford Mill Academy beat and tried to rob a 15-year-old student.
Racist arsonists (or maybe arsonist racists?) destroyed a portable classroom at Perryville High School on Friday morning.
Murderous perv du jour: Frank Portanova allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the 11-year-old boy he allegedly molested. The boy's mother was targeted also.
James Abu Bangura and Dartanion Antwon Wallace got a bunch of prison time for robbing a bunch of banks.
A panel has found that two fire department officials should be canned for mistakes that contributed to the February death of trainee Rachael Wilson.
Gregory Kane seems to think wannabe HoCo escapee Brandon T. Morris is a bit short-sighted.
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Another one that flies in the face of the Hamm-Dixon insistence that it's only the young thugs that are getting killed.
How is the woman doing that was stabbed on St Paul St in Charles Village a few days ago while carrying groceries home in broad daylight in the afternoon? I'm sure Hamm and Jablow will say she shouldn't have fought with the scumbag, etc, implying that it's somehow her fault...
....so they'd always say, oh, that murder's over in Remington, or Barclay...or Waverly...well hello idiots, I've been saying forever there's no friggin difference. Charles Village is as rotten as the rest of this hellhole. I just pray that poor woman will be ok.
Only one murder in the past couple of days? That's a pretty quiet weekend for Baltimore.
I have an honest question. I am new to the area, and maybe I am a bit naive. It seems that all of this crime is blamed, in some way, on the mayor and the police commissioner. Why? Sure. They are easy to point the finger at, but were they there in that poor old lady's apartment when that rotten p.o.s. stabbed her? A person who is capable of stabbing an old woman to death isn't going to be reached by some community program put in to action by the administration, so why is it their fault?
It's a good question, Anon, and to be fair, I think the mayor and commissioner are often used as convenient scapegoats.
As with any business, however, the leaders must be accountable when the business fails. If a project at work fails, the leader of the project is responsible because it was his/her job to hire the right people, establish the right tasks, and ensure things were being done properly.
By that logic, doesn't it make sense to hold the city's leaders accountable when the project of life fails in the city?
The commissioner and mayor are responsible for the general disrespect for the law in certain segments in Baltimore and the tolerance of violent behavior.
Some idiotic judge released the scumbag back into the community after he committed exactly the same crime in 2002 (stabbing a store clerk). He was supposed to be "under close supervision". I guess it wasn't close enough, your honor. It's funny that the "community" these creeps are released back into are always far, far away from where these judges or their families will ever have to live.
speaking of the poor lady stabbed by the psycho in Charles Village... (not to be confused with the 72-year-old stabbed near Druid Hill park)
I do believe this is the first time the Sun site has published a video clip!
Is that the actual voice of Gus G. Sentementes?
ne time, years ago, the veteran Baltimore newspaperman, H.L. Mencken, was checking copy coming in from the night editor and sighing at the rising number of errors he was noticing, errors of fact but also of syntax, and even some idioms that didn't sound quite right. He shook his head and said, as much to himself as to the editor at his side: “The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.''
— Alistair Cooke, “Memories of the Great and the Good'
I can totally agree.
2600 block of east madison street, not madison avenue. east baltimore, not near druid hill park.
wait, now i'm confused. wjz says madison avenue and even has a picture of that apartment building up there, but both of the sun's articles (yesterday and this morning) say east madison street. *sigh*
Sigh, who are we supposed to believe?
JZ shows and says Reservoir Hill (and also describes her as BOTH 78 and 72)!
The Sun says she's 72 and it was E. Madison STREET.
Fucking bozos!
One of the reasons I read the comments here is to get the correct facts to go with the story. Now if only the news outlets could do the same they would have a loyal viewer/reader in me.
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