Criminal justice

The fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO has focused attention on the anger and frustrations of people around the country and in Maryland.

The man charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was not a client of the medical insurer and may have targeted it because of its size and influence, a senior police official said Thursday.

The apparent targeted killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the menacing threats that followed have sent a shudder through corporate America and the health care industry in particular, leading to increased security for executives and some workers.

Black Marylanders make up about 30% of the state’s population but more than 70% of the people incarcerated in state prisons, the most pronounced racial disparity of its kind in the country, and a dubious distinction that criminal justice reformers say exemplifies the state’s regressive policies around mass incarceration.

Department of Defense deputy chief Frederick Douglass Moorefield Jr., of Anne Arundel County, sentenced for dogfighting.

Mosby, 44, a Democrat, served two terms as the Baltimore City’s top prosecutor from 2015 to 2023.

Wesley Lyons Jr. was found guilty of a shooting at his child’s birthday party inside the Harford Mall last June, according to Harford County State’s Attorney Alison Healey.

The ghost gun in the Luigi Mangione case — a pistol with 3D-printed parts and a 3D-printed silencer — has highlighted the growing use of 3D-printed firearms.

The Gilman School, his alma mater, stayed mostly silent as national media descended.

At an event at the B&O Warehouse at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Moore was asked about his thoughts on a Maryland native being arrested in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A federal judge denied Stephen L. Snyder’s request to be represented by an attorney ahead of his federal extortion sentencing, saying it “rings hollow” and was designed to disrupt and delay the case.

The gun found on the suspect in the killing of United Healthcare’s CEO matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting, New York City’s police commissioner said Wednesday.

Mangione, 26, is fighting his extradition to New York to face charges including second-degree murder in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Brett Johnson filed the lawsuit on Nov. 27 in Baltimore Circuit Court against the Maryland Transit Administration Police Department and Officer Anthony Congress.

Police have arrested a man in connection to a fatal shooting on a bus downtown Baltimore in late November.

Luigi Mangione, a Maryland native, has been charged with murder in New York in the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

State lawmakers expressed deep frustration with Maryland correctional leaders on Tuesday, following a scathing audit that found the state gave little oversight to for-profit medical contractors in state-run prisons and jails.

A Pennsylvania attorney said Tuesday evening that he has been retained to represent Luis Mangione but declined to say who has done so. Mangione has refused to waive extradition to face charges of second-degree murder and other offenses in New York in the shooting death of healthcare executive Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.

Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with murder in health care CEO Brian Thompson's fatal shooting, has emerged as a cause célèbre for anti-capitalists and those frustrated by the U.S. health care system.

Baltimore Police have charged 61-year-old Bernard Stepney of West Baltimore with arson and other offenses arising from a series of fires in the Central District.