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Sun coverage: Girl stabbed leaving light rail

Sun coverage of the fatal stabbing of Nicole Edmonds, 17, who was attacked after leaving a Baltimore light rail station.

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Lataye S. King

Lataye S. King, now 17, was sentenced to life in prison with all but 25 years suspended for fatally stabbing a 17-year-old girl after a fight over a cell phone aboard a light rail train in November of last year.

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Kendrick McCain

Kendrick McCain was charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old Nicole "Nikki" Edmonds after a fight over a cell phone aboard a light rail train in November of last year.

May 8, 2008

Dispensing justice in light rail case

Pastor Wayne Edmonds stood in the courtroom baffled. The Baltimore judge had earlier sentenced the girl who fatally stabbed his daughter at a light rail station to 25 years in adult prison. But because of a rarely employed law, the girl's accomplice - who also was charged and convicted as an adult - was about to be sent to a juvenile jail, meaning he will be freed by the time he is 21, at the latest.

December 7, 2007

Teenage killer sentenced

A teenage girl was sentenced yesterday to life in prison with all but 25 years suspended for chasing down and fatally stabbing another girl whose cell phone she tried to steal after they left a light rail train last year in Baltimore.

November 18, 2006

8th-grader charged in girl's killing

An eighth-grade boy was in jail yesterday and other youths were being sought in the death of a teenage girl who was chased down and stabbed after getting off a light rail train in Baltimore.

November 8, 2006

Girl, 17, is slain leaving light rail

The doors of the light rail train opened, and Nicole Edmonds and her younger brother stepped out into the chilly West Baltimore night, headed for a nearby bus stop. Four other passengers got off and followed.

November 14, 2006

Jean Marbella: Nikki's death stands out amid blur of statistics

The tributes flowed, from intimates and strangers alike, and some were read at Nicole Edmonds' funeral this weekend. Appreciative murmurs rippled through the mourners at the east-side church when a particularly famous name followed the "sincerely," like Martin O'Malley, the newly elected governor, or Ben Cardin, the just-minted U.S. senator.


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