Richard Martin is formerly a senior editor for criminal justice at The Baltimore Sun. Before joining The Sun in 2014, he was an editor and reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, overseeing several areas of coverage including education, health and Hillsborough County. He has also worked as an editor and reporter at The Seattle Times, Florida Today, Salinas Californian and the Pacific Daily News in Guam. He holds degrees in mass communications and political science from the University of Guam.
A suspect is in serious condition Monday after jumping from a third-story apartment window in Dundalk following a four-hour standoff with officers, Baltimore County Police said.
The case of Adnan Syed, the subject of the wildly popular "Serial" podcast, heads to Maryland's highest court on Thursday, where judges will hear arguments on whether to reinstate his murder conviction, which was vacated in 2016.
A woman was shot Monday afternoon in West Baltimore, and homicide detectives were called to the scene because of the severity of her injuries, police said.