A fatal shooting in the 500 block of Coventry Road* in the SW, a fatal shooting on Buena Vista that was
determined to be a suicide, nonfatal shootings on the 4200 block of N. Charles (right between Guilford and Tuscany-Cantebury) and a shooting following a bar fight on 200 block of South Pulaski St.
Murder victim #151 Freddie King was
ID'd as the father* of Georgetown's Tyshell King, one of the country's top basketball recruits. "
King had done time in prison — court records show he received seven years in 1996 for a drug distribution conviction — and that he was focused on his [child] having a better life."
On Friday one Marcus Lynch was found
guilty of raping a 13-year-old in Frank Bocek Park. Lynch also tried to strangle her, but was run off when passers-by heard her screaming.
The city will pay $500,000 to an elderly couple, Aubrey and Lena Knox, who police accused of kidnapping their grandchild, and who were
kept at Central Booking even after the grandchild was found in another state.
The grandson of murdered octogenarians Vauhgn and Marjorie Pepper is now officially a suspect in their deaths; Matthew Long, 31, was found in Oklahoma but is
in a coma following a suicide attempt.
GOTTA GET TO YANKEE CANDLE!! -- out on the pale swamp, a Volkswagen-driving woman was punched in the face then squashed by the Oldsmobile of a woman who felt the victim had stolen her parking place. Also hit was a bystander who was writing down משוגע's information.
A man who was shot by police
when he tried to run over an officer with his car was ID'd as Steven Gary, 45, of Pikesville
There's an idea: a guy in Houston paid his speed camera ticket with
137 dollar bills folded into pigs.