The latest Baltimore slaying occurred Thursday night when a 25-year-old man was gunned down while walking along Belair Road near Clifton Park. Cops tell me he was with two other men when one of them took out a gun and shot him in the head and body. For a comprehensive look at city slayings, go to our homicide map.
Other than that, it's been a slow Friday, and let's hope it stays that way.
In some other crime news, we report on discipline at Cheltenham Youth Center in Prince George's County, where last month a teacher from Belair was found dead and cops are investigating a 13-year-old detainee in her murder.
State officials were quiet on details of the discipline -- refusing to say whether the two staffers fired, two other suspended and one top administrator demoted -- were directly responsible in any way for the teacher's death. I did reach the superintendent, who we learned was the "top administrator demoted -- and found her in New Orleans. She told me she was "clueless" about the investigation.
And one more bit of good news on the crime front:
Our education writer Liz Bowie reports: