Disparate youth

19-year-old Charles Fuller was shot to death near Patterson Park* (#175). The Baltimore Guide reports 14 incidents of street robbery including seven gun robberies in the Southeast since 9/30

Justin Fenton ‏@justin_fenton

Crime Beat blog weekend recap: 8 shot in Baltimore over the weekend, incl 18-yr-old girl and 2 outside Club Mirage http://bsun.md/SY4JuP *

Justin Fenton ‏@justin_fenton

Police have released security footage of two ppl running from the area of Belair-Edison where Peter Marvit was killed pic.twitter.com/A3LUvNGz

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Police believe the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Tashawna Jones in Harwood was a domestic incident http:// bsun.md/SY4JuP *

Also Fenton revisits Oliver a decade after the Dawson family * was burned up in their home for "snitching" on neighborhood drug dealers. .. speaking of Moltov cocktails, I wonder what became of Edna McAbier, who went into witness protection after thugs threw some down her chimney in Harwood?

A police car responding to a shooting on Jack St. struck and killed a pedestrian,* Leondionas Dias Perez, on E. Patapsco Ave

Dayone Jackson, 20, was charged with shooting the Cherry Hill pizza deliveryman*

"For shooting at three Baltimore City police officers and striking one, Gerry Gough, 24, pled guilty on Friday to attempted first-degree murder, two counts of attempted second-degree murder, and a handgun violation. The plea agreement calls for a sentence of life in prison with all but 40 years suspended, followed by three years of probation."

Counties:

Two (black) 18-year-olds were arrested for the murder of (white) MMA fighter Matthew Morrow at a party in Pasadena

38 y/o Jermaine Dalton was murdered in Baltimore County

Civics: 
The Brew with the Ivy bookshop reviews three Baltimore-related social-history and urban planning tomes.

Did you know the Perkins and Latrobe projects used to be "white" public housing? Interesting presentation from the ACLU on the history of Baltimore's segregated public housing and the issues facing Cherry Hill and Westport.

Slew-foot Gary and the Roosting Chickens

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A man fatally shot at 4108 Harris Avenue, the Sun reports the victim, Nathaniel Augusto Santiago, beat murder charges twice

WTF? A Curtis Bay skateboarder arrested for fatally pushing a guy into the harbor in 2008.

Harris trial: So much for the mystery woman being called first.. but testimony from a security guard ID's two of the killers and explains the meaning of "slew footed" (... so if you are "slew-footed" you have a "slugh foot"?)

The gov wants to seize $10 million from Steven Blackwell

A Dawson relative makes a good point: "Even if the parents didn't want to budge, they should have snatched those kids up." Wonder if any threatened witnesses' kids have ever been taken by social services?

Evening

The 10-year-old boy shot yesterday was the cousin of the witness to a double murder, the case scheduled for trial today. BUT the latest news is it wasn't a case of witness itimidation at all... somebody was just trying to steal a jacket. Well, that's a relief!

Neil Rivers, 20, was killed trying to stop Deandre Lamont Williams, 18, from taking a dirtbike. His family is outraged that Williams was out of jail to commit the murder in the first place, and that he got only 50 years.

Shaidon "Papa Don" Blake was found guilty of second-degree murder and conspiracy in the death of Terrence Randolph, 19. Two other co-defendants, Janet Johnson and Jermile Harvey, were also found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy. "Prosecutors said Blake is a high-ranking member of the Bloods who came from California to get Terrence Randolph and other gang members in line."

Dawson sister: seven family members were killed because they "Believed," were not given promised protection.


Police have released a composite of the Fredneck hit-and-run killer, left.

City bank robber Terron Moore got 11 years 4 months. If only the teller had used a prophylactic excessive-customer-service-technique to disarm him from the gitgo ...

March 11

How Could Anyone Oppose This Bill?

Late Friday afternoon House Judiciary Chariman Joseph Vallario called for a vote on House Bill 320 that would strenghthen Witness Intimidation Reforms for the most vulnerable victims of crime, women and children victims of felony sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse.

The Committee (mostly defense attorneys) voted to kill the bill despite statewide support by family advocates and prosecutors.

Last year, State's Attorney Jessamy referred to the passage of the Witness Intimidation Bill (House Bill 188), as a "toothless tiger" noting that victims of first-degree child abuse, including instances of physical abuse such burning and starvation, were not included and had no better protections against intmidation. She cited many high-profile child abuse cases in Baltimore that would not be included in the new law. In addition she noted that intimidation, as against the Dawson family, was also not covered by the new law and therefore the law did not go far enought to protect all victims in cases of threats and intimidation.