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.
The Maryland Court of Special Appeals is allowing an appeal to continue from the family of Hae Min Lee on grounds that they did not receive sufficient notice before prosecutors dismissed the murder case against Adnan Syed.
A Virginia man pleaded guilty Thursday before his retrial to fatally shooting the popular South Baltimore bartender Alex Wroblewski in Locust Point five years ago.
Attorneys for the family of Hae Min Lee have 15 days to submit arguments for why the courts should not dismiss their appeal of an order last month that released Adnan Syed from prison.
Baltimore prosecutors said newly performed DNA tests on the shoes of the murdered Hae Min Lee found a mixture of DNA from multiple people — none of them Adnan Syed.
The attorney for the family of Hae Min Lee had notified the courts of their plan to appeal the judge’s order to throw out the murder conviction against Syed.
Howard County police found no evidence of danger to students at Howard County's River Hill High School after a threat was called in shortly before 2 p.m.
Syed remains charged with murder, kidnapping, robbery and false imprisonment in the death of Lee, and prosecutors have 30 days to decide whether to try him again or dismiss the charges.
Baltimore Judge Melissa Phinn throws out Syed’s conviction in light of new evidence that someone else could have strangled Hae Min Lee, as well as the fact that exculpatory information was not disclosed.
That police have reopened the investigation further validates the work by defense attorneys, activists and fans who have claimed over the years that Adnan Syed is innocent.
Syed was found guilty of first-degree murder, robbery, kidnapping and false imprisonment in the killing of his ex-girlfriend and classmate at Woodlawn High School, Hae Min Lee.
It was in Baltimore that a Johns Hopkins-trained sanitary engineer developed the methods to disinfect municipal water systems and pipe clean, safe drinking water across a city.