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In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, Jennell Black, mother of Anton Black, looks at a collection of her son's belongings at her home in Greensboro, Md. Relatives of Anton Black, a 19-year-old Black man who died during a struggle with police officers on Maryland's Eastern Shore, have reached a $5 million partial settlement of their wrongful death lawsuit, an agreement that also requires improvements in police training and policies, family attorneys announced Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.
Medical examiners cooperated with police in alleged cover-up of Anton Black’s death, family says
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.
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When a security guard opens fire, what happens next? Spate of Baltimore cases tests system
Three people have been shot — two fatally — at the hands of private, armed security guards in Baltimore in the last month.
Gordon Staron, middle, is under investigation for the killing in Baltimore's Central Booking of Javarick Gantt, left. Staron was already being detained for the fatal stabbing of Keith Bell, right.
Cellmate charged in killing of deaf detainee at Baltimore city jail
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.
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A man died in Central Booking on Monday. The next morning, four detainees suffered ‘possible overdoses’
Cortez Johnson, 21, was found unresponsive in his cell on Monday with “no obvious signs of trauma or foul play,” officials said.
A photo of Kevin Torres hangs on a fence at a makeshift memorial at the ChrisT bar on the northern edge of Highlandtown. Torres was fatally shot by a security guard at the bar early Monday morning.
Highlandtown community demands ‘justice’ for soccer coach shot dead by security guard at bar
Shooting of Kevin Torres centers on an accusation by the security guard, who told police Torres threw a brick at him, causing him to fire his weapon.
On Tuesday afternoon, Baltimore Police Commissioner Harrison released the body-worn footage from this past Sunday’s fatal shooting of Tyree Moorehead. He and Deputy Commissioner Brian Nadeau walked through the footage with members of the press and answered a few questions Tuesday afternoon.
Baltimore Police release body camera footage of officer shooting ‘No Shoot Zone’ activist
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.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison leads a press conference about a 13-year-old girl shot in the head while standing outside a liquor store on . She was not believed to be the intended target.
13-year-old girl in ‘grave condition’ after being shot in the head in East Baltimore, police say
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.
A memorial is set up honoring Tyree Moorehead near where he was shot at the intersection of N. Fulton and W. Lafayette Avenues. Moorehead was the founder of the "No Shoot Zone" activist group that called for an end to violence in Baltimore. He was shot and killed by police after a confrontation on Sunday afternoon.
Questions follow after anguished, anti-violence activist in Baltimore shot and killed by police
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.
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Security guard shoots man dead in Baltimore Highlands area
This marks at least the third shooting by an armed private security guard in the city in the last 17 days. Two of the victims have died.
Keith Bell
‘His community loved him:’ A random act took his life, but Keith Bell’s legacy lives on
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.
Gordon Staron, middle, is under investigation for the killing in Baltimore's Central Booking of Javarick Gantt, left. Staron was already being detained for the fatal stabbing of Keith Bell, right.
Man charged in random bus stop killing is suspect in Baltimore jail killing of deaf man
The attorney for Gordon Staron said he was told by prosecutors that his client is under investigation for the Oct. 9 killing of Javarick Gantt.
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Security guard charged with attempted murder in Royal Farms shooting
Marquise Powell, 26, was transported to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center by medics and remains in “grave condition.”
Photographs taken during an August tour of the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center and its medical infirmary show men in a temporary dorm sleeping on plastic "boats" in a gymnasium.
ACLU report finds ‘alarming’ treatment of disabled people at Baltimore jail where deaf man was killed
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.
A man wearing a Safe Streets shirt stands to the side as officials speak at a press conference outside Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle School on 8/24/22.
City Council says it was blindsided by overhaul of Baltimore’s Safe Streets anti-violence program
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, 34, sits on a stoop and poses for a photograph at an unknown location in Baltimore. Gantt was murdered by an unknown assailant at a state-run jail in the city earlier this month.
‘He didn’t have a fighting chance’: Questions surround killing of deaf man in Baltimore jail
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.
7/8/22—A Baltimore Police officer’s car is parked on the corner of E Lombard St. & President St.
Judge overseeing Baltimore’s consent decree called police over squeegee incident
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.
Black boy looks at phone, vacant houses and gun in background
Baltimore teenagers are being shot at an alarming rate this year
Most of the 71 shooting victims are 16- and 17-year-old males. And nearly all of the victims are Black.
A healthcare worker prepares to administer a vaccine to Michael Nicot for the prevention of monkeypox the Pride Center on July 12, 2022 in Wilton Manors, Florida. The center is offering the free smallpox/monkeypox vaccinations from the Florida Department of Health in Broward County as South Florida leads the state in the number of people infected.
Why has D.C. administered more monkeypox vaccines than Maryland? Here’s what we found.
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.
A patch on the uniform of Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison as he speaks at a press conference outside Tench Tilghman Elementary/Middle School on 8/24/22.
Baltimore judge denies bid by police union president to halt investigation into media leak
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.”
Baltimore Juvenile Justice Center at 300 N. Gay St. opened it’s doors in October 2003
‘Dangerous and often chaotic’: More fights, less staff at Baltimore youth detention center
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.
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