Here's just a few paragraphs from Justin Fenton's and Jessica Anderson's story on the arrests in the killing of Charles Bowman, a 72-year-old Vietnam veteran and security guard at the Afro American newspaper. He was killed in a robbery at Yau Bros carryout on Greenmount Avenue as he bought dinner to start his night shift, a holdup that netted the attackers just $13:
I'll be researching their records a bit more today to determine how and why. But it's a familiar refrain -- people with records and pending cases seem to escape the full brunt of the laws and then get charged in far worse crimes.
Baltimore Sun photo: Jed Kirschbaum