Wednesday, January 9, 2008

January 9

Homicide #3: an unidentified man's body was found in an abandoned rowhouse in the 3000 block of W. North Ave. yesterday morning.

This week's Ink covers the last murder of '07 and the first two of a remarkably calm new year. (And for all you Anna Ditkoff fans, there's a staged reading of the 2007 Murder Ink columns by the Single Carrot Theatre. 7:00pm at 45 W. Preston St.)

A memorial service was held yesterday for the Parkville family that was killed by alleged drunk driver Michael Gagnon.

A 17-year-old was stabbed in a parking lot at the Columbia Mall, and is in critical condition at Shock Trauma.

The victim of yesterday's home invasion / robbery was a 62-year-old Owings Mills woman.

Down in PG, two teenage girls were shot in a driveby, and a 30-year-old man was accidentally hit as well.

In other DC news, crackhead Tonya Bell apologized for being such a crappy driver.

Kerri King was granted a postponement. HarCo prosecutor Dair Pillai described her as a "threat to the public and community."

The lawyer for Sean Nelson Smith said it wasn't murder, it was self-defense.

Joseph Ellis admitted he's a perv, but not that kind of perv.

Security guard Rodney Corban was acquitted, and the doctor who was allegedly attacked -- who has a $30M lawsuit pending against UMMC -- played the race card.

The 9-year-old girl who was attacked by a pit bull on Bonaparte Ave. is still in the hospital. The dog, whose body showed signs of potential dogfighting and whose owner cannot be identified, was euthanized and is being tested for rabies.

Parking agent H. West was suspended in November, and Inspector General Hilton Green is investigating the fake parking tickets.

City Paper has the first half of an interesting story about Baltimore dealer Fred Brooks.

2 comments:

Maurice Bradbury said...

Did you notice that those Westboro Baptists were out protesting the funeral of the Parkville family? Apparently they see it as revenge against "the community" for the lawsuit they lost... even though the suit was in the city so no one from Parkville would have been on the jury. (Cue cuckoo-clock sound effect)

ppatin said...

How appropriate that they find a body in an abandoned West Baltimore rowhouse just as the new season of The Wire comes out.