Baltimore Crime

Sudhir Venkatesh watched the second episode of The Wire with his thug pals, and published their thoughts on the Freakonomics blog.

One of last night's murders happened on the same block where the city is razing abandoned houses ; the other happened just a few blocks...

Report of two murders last night : one man found shot in an alley at about 7 p.m. in the 3500 block of Cliftmont Ave., and an unidentified p...

There are several substantial stories on Mr. Hallback today, but nobody can agree on how to spell the guy's first name: The Sun writes ...

We mourn the loss of Zachariah Hallback, a wonderful young man who had participated in many Algebra Project events, and who was helping to o...

At a hearing yesterday, Earl Bazemore, 20, of the 2500 block of E. Fayette Street pled guilty to first degree murder and use of a handgun in...

Another shooting in Edgewood . WJZ has an interview with Diamonte Fairley, the boy scalded and scarred for life by Shamia Lawson. His grand...

"The 9-year-old boy went outside without his godmother's permission. His punishment was to sit in a bathtub as the woman filled it ...

At a hearing today Destiny D’Urso, 26, of Damascus, MD, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Under terms of the plea agreement, announced in open...

We listed Zachariah Hallback over on the right side of the site, but the Sun says he's still in critical condition . For Mr. Hallback...

An unidentified man was reportedly found dead of multiple stab wounds about 2 p.m. on the 400 block of E. 25th St. (literally on the street...

18-year-old Zachariah Hallback is the name of the man who was shot in the head on Wednesday while waiting for a safe and reliable bus at E....

From the SA's office: Just before his scheduled rape trial was scheduled to begin today, Baltimore Police Officer William Darrell Welch,...

The man found shot to death in a house on North Ave. was 30-year-old Jerrell Brown. Apparently, the house was not abandoned, as Brown was l...

A man was shot in the head at a bus stop tonight at the intersection of 33rd and the Alameda. He is reportedly still alive.

Sudhir Venkatesh (best known for his gang studies that were analyzed in Freakonomics ) evaluates the authenticity of "The Wire" w...

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

This site recorded 281 official murders in 2007, one less than "Murder Ink" has reported for the year. There are also 10 individu...

Vernice Harris, a 30-year-old "mother" has been charged in the murder of her two-year-old daughter, Bryanna Ashley . Along with th...

More than 2,000 mourners attended the funeral for Courtney Brooks. Three teenage boys and a woman were injured during a shooting at a carr...