Baltimore Sun coverage: Select Lounge shooting
Plan to regulate nightclub promoters draws mixed response
A proposal to regulate Baltimore night life has drawn a mixed reaction from area club promoters, who could be required to register events or get a license from the city. Read more ...
Commission: Lack of supervision, training led to police shooting
An independent commission reviewing January's fatal police shooting outside the Select Lounge found that supervisors failed to take control of a chaotic scene, with Officer William H. Torbit Jr. making a series of missteps that exacerbated the situation and contributed to his own death. Read more ...
City police failed to conduct training reviews of officer shootings
The Baltimore Police Department has for years failed to conduct "after-action" reviews of police-involved shootings that are used for training officers who may find themselves in similar, potentially violent situations. Read more ...
Video of police shooting of plainclothes officer is released
The Baltimore Police Department on Wednesday released surveillance camera footage of the January police shooting outside a downtown club that killed two people, including a plainclothes officer. Read more ...
Officers appear, decline to testify before Select Lounge panel
The police officers involved in a fatal shooting outside a downtown club appeared Monday before a panel charged with reviewing the incident, but refused to answer questions. Read more ...
Baltimore police release file in Select Lounge shooting
Harry Pawley didn't know he had shot a fellow police officer until a colleague screamed. Then he saw the handcuffs dangling from the wounded man's belt. Latora Craig discovered the mistake only after she saw the badge attached to a chain around his neck. Read more ...
No charges in fatal police shooting at city's Select Lounge
Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein said Thursday that no one will face criminal charges in the fatal shooting by police officers of a plainclothes colleague, whom they mistook for a gunman, moving authorities a step closer to closing one of the most painful chapters in the department's history. Read more ...
Pictures: Select Lounge shooting
See pictures of the investigation, press conference, vigils and Sean Gamble's memorial service after the Select Lounge shooting incident. Read more ...
Photos: Select Lounge shooting
The officers who fired their weapons in the police-involved shooting at the Select Lounge in January have been cleared of criminal wrongdoing by the city State's Attorney's Office, which closed a 7-month investigation. The Sun has obtained the Baltimore City Police Department's investigative file of the shooting, which killed two people, including a plainclothes officer, and injured others. Read more ...
Editorial: Officers need to testify in Select Lounge shooting inquiry
It's been more than nine months since the tragic death of city Police Officer William H. Torbit Jr., who was killed by friendly fire from fellow officers in January as he tried to disperse an unruly crowd outside a downtown night club, and the public is still waiting for answers. Read more ...
Editorial: Torbit killing: Never let it happen again
For a department that has seen more than its share of troubles, perhaps none could count as a more painful failure for the Baltimore Police Department than the January killing of plainclothes Officer William Torbit Jr. by friendly fire as he was trying to break up a fight outside a downtown club. The incident, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding it, cast a stain on Mr. Torbit, the other officers and the entire department's training, practice and procedures. The decision by City State's Attorney Gregg Bernstein not to charge anyone in connection with the incident, which also resulted in the death of a civilian, Sean Gamble, provides a degree of exoneration for the officers, but it doesn't erase what happened. Read more ...
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