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Collage showing Western District of Baltimore map cut-out, layered with scribbles.
Nine charts that help explain last year’s sudden drop in shootings in West Baltimore
Chase M. Williams, 37, pictured shortly after his release from prison in December, was found dead at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center on January 10. His sister, Nya Williams, described the death as suspicious. (Photo courtesy of the Williams family).
Another death tied to Baltimore Central Booking as troubles mount at state-run jail
Family members of 37-year-old Chase Williams said he was found unresponsive somewhere in the facility on Tuesday, about two hours after he was booked into it.
John Huffington, left, and Ropes & Gray partner Chong S. Park speak at a news conference on Nov. 9, 2021.
He spent a decade on death row. Now John Huffington’s name is cleared, thanks to a pardon.
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan pardoned Huffington, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1981 double murder of Diana Becker and Joe Hudson in Harford County.
People around table with Mayor Brandon Scott and Senator Jill Carter
Complaints against Baltimore police officers grow as new accountability board takes shape
Baltimore will be one of the last police accountability boards in the state to get up and running.
Shooting at Benjamin Franklin High School is the second school shooting during the first week of 2023.
Two students shot near Benjamin Franklin High School
Two people were shot near Benjamin Franklin High School in Curtis Bay
Family and friends of 16-year-old Edmondson, Dennta Dorsey who was the student killed yesterday, and Attorney Thiur Vignarajah (left) during a press conference at the Edmondson Village, site of the shooting.
Changes needed at Edmondson Village shopping strip, says family of 16-year-old killed there
Baltimore Police on Thursday identified the teen who was fatally shot Wednesday as Deanta Dorsey.
“Below Deck” star Eddie Lucas stands along the Fells Point waterfront Sunday, Dec.24,2022 in Baltimore.
From ‘Below Deck’ to a Baltimore tugboat: How Eddie Lucas found his way home
Hampden resident talks about life on both the reality TV series and the city’s Inner Harbor.
One person has died and four others were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village shopping center Wednesday morning.
One teen dead, four others shot in mass shooting at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
A 16-year-old boy has died and four other teenage boys were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center.
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.
Police name 8-year-old victim shot dead in West Baltimore rowhouse last week
The boy shot dead in a West Baltimore rowhouse on Friday was 8-year-old Dylan King and his death is being treated as an “open active homicide investigation,” police said Wednesday morning.
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Boy, 7, fatally shot in West Baltimore rowhouse as gun violence surges to end year
Police officers discovered the boy’s body upstairs with a gunshot wound to the head.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, right, speaks during a press conference at Baltimore City Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 21. To his left is Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.
Driven by warrants, arrests are up in Baltimore for the first time in more than a decade
Police say the emphasis on warrant arrests came over the summer as part of the department’s deployment plan and initiatives with law enforcement partners.
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Maryland State Police are tracking 5 security guard-related shootings, records show
The records reveal for the first time the scope of a recent spate of shootings involving armed security guards and offer a window into how the state police monitor the incidents.
Photo collage of broken handshake between two women with map of Baltimore’s Western Police District in background.
Key partner could be left out of push to expand city’s flagship anti-gun-violence program
A rift has been growing between the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and Roca Maryland.
A photo collage of Jalil George, 24, is displayed at a vigil in his memory held at the Western School of Technology in Catonsville on December 10, 2022. George was fatally shot while visiting his investment property in Park Heights after he was apparently misidentified.
‘He always wanted more’: Real estate upstart killed in Park Heights wasn’t the intended target
Police believe Jalil George, 24, was driving a car that was similar to a car used in a different shooting that occurred earlier in the neighborhood.
A member of the Baltimore City Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services team loads up a stretcher into the back of an ambulance on August 17, 2022. The Black Community Development Coalition and homeless advocates set up an encampment Wednesday at the War Memorial Plaza to encourage Baltimore leaders to make the encampments around the city more of a priority.
Baltimore’s firefighting vehicle fleet is depleted; council members want a plan to fix it
Department leadership, which was just upended following a scathing report on a fatal fire on South Stricker Street in January, contend they are doing everything they can to address the issues.
Baltimore Police commissioner Michael Harrison speaks during a city announcement for plans tp expand the Group Violence Reduction Strategy from the west policing districts into one or more additional policing precinct by early next year.
Baltimore outlines plan to take flagship anti-violence strategy citywide within two years
Some, however, express skepticism that the Baltimore Police Department has the manpower to support the expansion.
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.
Lawmakers mull giving Maryland AG power to prosecute officers in police-related deaths
A year after state lawmakers gave the Maryland attorney general greater investigatory authority in police-involved deaths, local prosecutors have so far declined to charge any officers.
Ray Kelly, CEO of Citizens Policing Project, in church after receiving the Msgr. Arthur F. Valenzano Joyful Servant Award from the Catholic Charities of Baltimore.
Q&A: Ray Kelly, West Baltimore native, police reform activist and lifetime award recipient
"In Baltimore City, things are so deeply rooted, that it’s not about a crime problem, it’s not about a violence problem — it’s always been a pain problem.'
A still from surveillance camera footage shows the moment Carlos Ortega, left, shot Rafael Jeffers, right, while David Burch, an off-duty Baltimore Police Department sergeant, sat in Jeffers' barber's chair.
State clears off-duty BPD sergeant in East Baltimore barber shop shooting
The decisions will allow Burch, who joined the Baltimore Police Department in April 2014, to return from desk duty.
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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