Sun coverage: Ex-city councilman killed
Baltimore police detectives stand outside New Haven Lounge, a bar in Northwood Plaza, where former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. was shot and killed. (Baltimore Sun photo by Jerry Jackson / September 20, 2008)
Coverage of the fatal shooting of former Baltimore City councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr., 45, outside the New Haven Lounge during an apparent robbery.
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Talk about it: Ex-city councilman fatally shot
Share your thoughts and remembrances of former city councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr., who was fatally shot on Sept. 20, 2008, outside the New Haven Lounge jazz club during an apparent robbery.
August 25, 2009
Trial in councilman's killing postponed
The trial for three men accused of killing former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. has been postponed after one of the defense attorneys requested more time to sift through forensic evidence. Harris, 45, was fatally shot Sept. 20 during a robbery attempt at the Northwood Plaza shopping center in Northeast Baltimore. Police charged Charles Y. McGaney, 20, and Gary Collins, 20, with murder in November, and 16-year-old Jerome Williams was charged in January. Williams' attorney, Jerome Bivens, said Monday morning that there is a large amount of DNA evidence that defense experts still need to pore over. He said he is also seeking additional forensics and access to the Baltimore police crime lab. The defendants are set to be jointly tried, with a new trial date set for Jan. 12, 2010.
April 20, 2009
Key evidence in Harris killing might be excluded
DNA evidence that gave Baltimore police a key break in the investigation of the killing of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. was obtained under questionable circumstances and might never be heard at the trial, according to court documents and attorneys.
January 16, 2009
Mask in Harris killing does not contain DNA of either suspect
The skull mask left at the Northeast Baltimore scene of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr.'s killing does not contain the DNA of either suspect charged in the homicide, according to a crime lab report reviewed yesterday by The Baltimore Sun.
7:26 AM EST, December 9, 2008
2 indicted in slaying of ex-councilman Harris
Baltimore State's Attorney Patricia Jessamy said a grand jury has indicted the two men arrested in the fatal shooting of former city councilman Kenneth Harris.
November 18, 2008
Gag order sought in Harris killing case
Attorneys representing two men accused of killing former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. are seeking a gag order in the case, arguing that publicity would make it difficult for their clients to get a fair trial.
November 15, 2008
Two men held in Harris' death
Two men were arrested yesterday in the killing of Kenneth N. Harris Sr., the former city councilman who was fatally shot in a robbery outside a Northeast Baltimore jazz club in September. The arrests brought relief to his family and to community members, some of whom had grown increasingly impatient with the police investigation.
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November 6, 2008
Key DNA evidence found in the killing of Harris
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said detectives have recovered key DNA evidence in the killing of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. but need help from the public in determining the suspects' identity.
October 28, 2008
Councilwoman wants accounting from city police
Saying that Baltimore is becoming "numb and complacent" to murder, City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton demanded an update last night on the Police Department's homicide clearance rate and a briefing on the homicide investigation into the death of former Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr.
October 21, 2008
Income up, study says
A city-sponsored economic study shows Baltimore has about $1.2 billion more in aggregate neighborhood income than traditional markets have estimated, and city leaders say they plan to highlight these findings to developers in an attempt to revitalize four floundering shopping centers.
October 8, 2008
Gun that killed Harris tied to Jan. case
The gun used to kill former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. had been fired in another crime in the same Northeast Baltimore shopping center months before, but police classified the earlier incident as a property crime instead of an attempted armed robbery, limiting the resources they devoted to investigating it.
October 7, 2008
Police say video images might show Harris' killers
Police released surveillance camera footage yesterday that they believe may show one or more of the suspects in the killing of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris Sr. The images were captured at the shopping center minutes before he was killed last month.
6:45 PM EDT, September 21, 2008
Harris' killing stuns residents, colleagues
In his eight years on the City Council, Kenneth N. Harris Sr. worked diligently to make parts of North and Northeast Baltimore safer from crime, including the Northwood Plaza, an aging strip mall that some say had its heyday in the 1960s.
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who was the woman in the car. was it his wife?
j b @ 1:55 AM EST, Dec 10, 2008
400 years of exile, you should leave the spelling to a professional just as you should leave genetic science to a scientist. I work in a genetics lab for a well known Baltimore research hospital and all of our samples are of a much lower quantity than what would have been found in that mask.
Joe @ 12:28 PM EST, Dec 9, 2008
Leroy, gentlemen do not spit at reporters, nor do they possess the rap sheet those two knuckleheads have.
Joe @ 12:19 PM EST, Dec 9, 2008
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