The complaint also found that Black decedents were found to be homicide victims 8% of the time, compared to white decedents being found to be homicide victims 21% of the time.
Gordon Staron Jr. is charged in the killings of 63-year-old Keith Bell at an East Baltimore bus stop and Javarick Gantt, 34, who was found ”unresponsive” at the jail on Oct. 9.
The Baltimore Police Department identified the officer who shot and killed Tyree Moorehead as Zachary Rutherford, who has been with the department since March of this year.
The shot was intended for someone in a vehicle in the parking lot of a liquor store, but instead hit a young person standing outside, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.
As footage of his death at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department circulates on social media, questions are intensifying about the final moments before Tyree Moorehead was shot.
As a cashier at the cut-rate liquor store for two decades, Bell knew everybody — relationships he later expanded by doing odd jobs and favors for people in the community, sometimes for just a few dollars.
A report by attorneys for the ACLU suing the state over jail conditions found major issues at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, including how the facility housed people with disabilities, just weeks before Javarick Gantt was murdered there.
An exchange between Councilman Mark Conway and Shantay Jackson, director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, escalated, and the hearing was recessed.
Javarick Gantt was “found unresponsive” at 6:30 a.m. on Oct. 9, then pronounced dead by medical staff 20 minutes later, according to Maryland corrections officials.
The incident comes two months after Judge James Bredar was discussing the city’s tactics when it comes to policing squeegee work at a federal consent decree hearing.
Washington, D.C., health officials have vaccinated people against monkeypox at a rate at least 56 times higher than Maryland, a Baltimore Banner data analysis of both jurisdictions’ data found.
Sgt. Mike Mancuso, president of the Baltimore City Lodge No. 3 Fraternal Order of Police, filed a complaint with the court on July 15, asserting that the Baltimore Police Department’s Public Integrity Bureau was on a “fishing expedition.”
Recent report shows the city’s Juvenile Justice Center has had more fighting among the youths who are housed there, and continuing problems with contraband.