Saturday, September 20, 2008

WTF?!?! Kenneth N. Harris Sr. Killed!

... reportedly by three gunmen robbing the New Haven Lounge in the Northwood Plaza mall, who shot him as he was running away to his car!
And the killers are still on the loose.
Unfuckingbelieveable!
JZ has video of the police press conference. Bealefeld reveals that police found a mask similar to the "Scream" mask and Harris' wallet nearby.
More on Harris from a vintage CP article and a Wikipedia bio.

8 comments:

The Baltimore Cynic said...

That's a true shame. I had the opportunity to speak to him on more than one occasion, and he was very nice and reasonably minded.

The city lost someone who at least seemed to care about Baltimore.

Stewie del Gato said...

I agree. I was in his district and had a friend who worked on his campaign. Baltimore lost big today.

Maurice Bradbury said...

interesting how some news outlets chose to report that Harris was with a "female friend," others don't.

heather said...

i wish i were confident that this was an actual robbery. maybe i've just watched too many episodes of the wire, but this seems like a hit - and they were told to make it seem like a robbery. but he's the only one shot (the examiner called it 'execution style' and mentioned the female companion)? seems suspicious to me.

Maurice Bradbury said...

I agree. There's a lot odd about the whole thing. If it was a simple robbery and the robbers were masked, why would they pursue him and kill him?

Going out for a corkscrew at 1:30 a.m. is pretty odd too.

I'm sure there's a whole lot more to this story.

ppatin said...

That is one creepy looking mask. I'm very curious to see what the investigation into this crime ends up revealing. SJ

ppatin said...

Shooting on N. Howard Street around 1 AM this morning. The victim appears to be alive (at least for now.)

Anonymous said...

Ken was a very speacial person, he really wanted to see a change in the city of baltimore its sad to see him die from the very thing he was fighting to see change! (crime)