A 63-year-old BWI cabbie, Aston Beadle, was shot on his Windsor Mill doorstep after finishing a shift last week. Police and Beadle's fellow drivers are hoping a witness will come forward with some useful information. Beadle is in stable condition at Shock Trauma. (Thanks for the correction, ppatin.)
A Fredneck is dead after shooting at(?) a woman and her two kids who were in his house, barricading himself indoors, then threatening police with a knife.
Two shootings: an 18-year-old was shot just after midnight on S. Addison St., and a 28-year-old was shot at 1:00 a.m. while he was sitting with friends on a porch in the 3000 block of Spaulding Ave. "Sitting with friends on a porch" sounds like such a peaceful and positive activity, doesn't it?
Do we have a dropping murder rate because of a national trend, or because Bealefeld kicks ass, or just because we all love each other a little bit more? Regardless, the FBI says we dropped to #3 in 2007. Take that, Memphis!
My God! An armed robbery on an MTA bus! Who'd'a thunk it?
Convicted icky schoolteacher Alan Beier got four years, and said, "I will never, ever again repeat any of those actions." Good to know, Alan, good to know.
More on Judge Plitt's ruling in the Kevin Johns case.
So if these two pharmacists are found guilty for illegal Vicodin sales, will each of their customers have to pay the city a grand?
Paris George spent six years cheating people out of money for medical equipment.
8 comments:
"a 28-year-old was shot at 1:00 a.m. while he was sitting with friends on a porch in the 3000 block of Spaulding Ave. "Sitting with friends on a porch" sounds like such a peaceful and positive activity, doesn't it?"
Ask any doctor or nurse who works in an inner city ER, and they'll tell you that the typical violent crime victim will claim "I was standing on the corner, minding my own business, then some dude came up to me..." The exception to this is if the person was beaten, in which case it becomes "these dudes came up to me." It wouldn't do to admit that you got your ass kicked by one guy on his own.
Oh, I have one correction. You said that Aston Beadle was murdered, but the Examiner says that he's in stable condition at Shock Trauma. Also, did anyone find it weird that the victim was Jamaican? It seemed to be that Russians had a monopoly on the airport cab business at BWI.
Thanks. I read "critically shot" and my brain jumped to murder. The post is fixed.
our total violent crime rate dropping to third in the nation last year does not translate to a dropping murder rate. as the article says, of the top three in that list, we were the only city to see a RISE in murders last year. yes, this year so far our murder rate is down substantially, but that's not what that article is about.
Itchy Man's murder conviction has been upheld on appeal.
Bear in mind that we have some 4,000 robberies and 6,000 agg. assaults annually. So, the violent crime figures are driven by those results disproportionately to either murder (300-odd) or shootings (900-odd).
So, the question is: are robberies/agg. assaults really down a few percent or are we just reclassifying that many into UCR Part II reporting, which is to say, off the radar screen ?
Further, to what degree has the Baltimore City Police Department 'successfully' persuaded victims to just not bother reporting these incidents?
That's a real issue. That could account for well over 5-7%, which could well mean that nongun violence has actually increased.
Fellow Bmore Crime Readers:
I recommend a movie to all of you..It's actually a documentary, called "Mario's Story"..Its a story of a Hispanic male in California that was wrongfully sentenced at the age of 16 to a double life sentence in one of California's most dangerous prisons. The film shows the long process that is involved in trying to prove ones innocence after already being sentenced..The chances of proving innocence after being convicted is about less then 1%..The documentary is shot over a 7 year period, its truley moving. It shows Mario as an individual with an unbreakable will! Its truly an inspiration, I strongly recommend it to all my fellow Bmore Crime readers..I located the movie on Netflix.
If I had a porch, I would have been sitting on it at 1 this morning...my a/c is broken. :(
Post a Comment