-
Dr. Gregory Saathoff is the psychiatrist prosecutors hired to investigate the insanity defense of the man who killed Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters during an attack on June 28, 2018, which left two more employees more injured and an Annapolis community distraught. Here's what we know about his career.
- Zayde Boyd, 19, was arrested on armed robbery, robbery and kidnapping charges, Baltimore Police said Wednesday.
- Crime in Ocean City, Maryland, spiked in 2020 for the first time in five years, according to police statistics.
- In all, federal prosecutors say Gregory Blosser, 39, who ran an Annapolis business, scammed 44 people out of more than $1.1 million, operating what essentially became a Ponzi scheme as the business spiraled out of control.
- After Kodi Shaw was injured in a non-fatal shooting, his family questions the safety of their neighborhood.
- Local officials and residents lauded the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for killing George Floyd, while saying much more needs to be done.
- The family of a 28-year-old man killed by a woman fleeing police in a stolen car has sued the Baltimore Police Department, alleging the agency’s policy on pursuits gives officers too much discretion that supervisors fail to rein in.
- Lt. Col. Ernest Leatherbury Jr., 55, a retired Maryland State Police commander, was second in command at the agency responsible for enforcing conservation and boating safety laws.
Investigate homicide data, from 2007 to the most-recent incidents, in The Sun’s interactive map.
-
More crime news
The family of a 28-year-old man killed by a woman fleeing police in a stolen car has sued the Baltimore Police Department, alleging the agency’s policy on pursuits gives officers too much discretion that supervisors fail to rein in. - A 15-year-old girl was charged with carjacking after knocking a woman down and taking the keys to her 2020 Buick Encore and drove away Monday night, Anne Arundel County police said.
- Lt. Col. Ernest Leatherbury Jr., 55, a retired Maryland State Police commander, was second in command at the agency responsible for enforcing conservation and boating safety laws.
- Annapolis police responded to a crime scene Monday night after hearing gun shots but couldn’t find a victim or suspect.
- Three months after the murder of Ken Gerstley, his widow and police are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of his killer.
- Baltimore police are investigating an early Monday morning shooting that led to the death of a 27-year-old woman following a violent weekend in the city, officials said. Later in the day, two people including a 17-year-old were injured in a separate shooting.
- Maryland State Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle believed to be involved in a fatal hit and run crash in Wicomico County
- Baltimore police are engaged in training to help them intervene when fellow officers cross the line into dangerous behavior when dealing with the public. It is in response to a federal consent decree and comes amid growing anger over deaths of George Floyd and other unarmed people, mostly minorities, at the hands of police.
- A man was stabbed to death late Sunday night, continuing a weekend of violence in Baltimore during which two other men died and seven more people were injured, police said.
- Anne Arundel County police arrested a 16-year-old after responding to one of two shootings reported in the area of Polk Drive and Freedom Drive in Glen Burnie early Saturday morning.
-
Baltimore Police charge Lansdowne man with firing errant shot in gunbattle that hit 10-year-old girl
Baltimore Police arrested and charged another man in the brazen, west-side gunbattle last February, this person alleged to have fired the reckless shot that hit the 10-year-old girl down the block. - Kyree Davis, 21, was arrested in the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Shamyar Austin, Baltimore police said.
- Authorities say Maurice Terrell Bellinger, 31, of Riverdale has been charged in a road-rage incident April 2 that killed Keya Beale, 50, of Hyattsville.
- Three men were shot late Thursday afternoon in the Baltimore Highlands neighborhood of Southeast Baltimore, according to the police.
- The city of Baltimore’s private security costs have ballooned over the last five years and will increase again this week with another $4.5 million approved by the Board of Estimates.
- Peyton Ham was killed Tuesday in a shooting by a Maryland State Police trooper, and neighbors are wondering why police shot so much that bullets wound up on their property.
- Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby defended her decision not to prosecute certain lower-level crimes in front of the city's Public Safety and Governmental Operations committee Wednesday.
- Baltimore Police say two more teenagers have been charged with murder in the fatal carjacking of a 41-year-old man earlier this month in the Highlandtown area.
- George Floyd died of a sudden heart rhythm problem due to his heart disease while being restrained by police, retired forensic pathologist Dr. David Fowler testified for the defense Wednesday at former Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder trial, contradicting several experts who said Floyd succumbed to a lack of oxygen.
- A homeless couple digging through a trash container in West Baltimore on Tuesday morning discovered “parts of a human foot,” police said.
- A lawsuit filed in federal court alleges that Baltimore police unconstitutionally seize and hold the car keys, money and clothes of shooting victims for months without establishing their worth as evidence in their investigations.
