Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Three Bus Attacks in Three Weeks!

A teenage girl was stabbed in the arm today on the #51 bus near Mondawmin! Have city buses always been rolling hellholes, or are we in the throes of some widespread teenager freakout?

Remember Kenneth Barnes, whose visit to a Falls Road snowball stand got him arrested and triggered a panic a la "Little Children"? Now the victim of the original case says she lied. His mother is asking the public to call the governor to ask for his release for Christmas.

The Ink reports on the murders of Artavious Tubman, Richard Lawson and Jamal Rowlett.

The CP, and excellent reporter Van Smith, are being sued for $12 million by Nicholas Piscatelli, who claims that the paper accused him in two stories in 2006 of murdering Jason Convertino and Sean Wisniewski or arranging their murders.

8 comments:

mwilson said...

At least these attacks are on camera.

Bosque said...

To answer the question ... the children have all gone insane.

kris said...

Lord of the flies out there... :)

ppatin said...

Cases like Kenneth Barnes are why I made that anal-retentive comment a few weeks ago about labeling someone who hadn't been convicted as "perv du jour." It's so easy to get someone accused of being a sex offender, and a decent number of accusations end up being complete bullshit. Even if a case ends up being tossed out because it's completely baseless a person's reputation can be tarnished for the rest of his life.

ppatin said...

Murder victim number 275 is 3-year-old Jabari Stocks, who died June 8th after sustaining a head injury. The ME ruled it a homicide shortly afterwards, but for some reason it was just reported.

Caederus said...

So how many deaths have been rulled homicides but have not been reported?

But no one in the BCPD would cook the numbers...

John Galt said...

This is why cops hate domestic dispute calls.

Maurice Bradbury said...

You're very right, PP, point taken.