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The 19-year-old victim was sent to a nearby hospital for treatment by medics.
- A man shot several times in southeast Baltimore’s Franklin Square community has died, police said Friday night.
- Broadly, the plan seeks to reduce violence by treating crime as a public health issue, better coordinating law enforcement, community groups and the business community and creating systems to measure progress.
- The judge overseeing the federal consent decree governing the Baltimore Police Department’s practices and policies raised concerns that State Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s decision not to prosecute some lower-level crimes could interfere with some of the stated goals of the decree.
- A group of at least five self-proclaimed sovereign citizens moved into an empty Baltimore County mansion and sued the owner, attempting what they described as a “sovereign acquisition."
- FBI officials announced Thursday that they’ve identified a woman whose dismembered body was found last month at a park near the Camp David presidential retreat.
- A male was shot and killed in Owings Mills on Thursday, police said.
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A young West Baltimore man is shot and killed, dealing another blow to a family struggling with loss
Jayvon Ghim was the cousin of Milton Carrington, who was killed at 16 in 2019. Ghim was fatally shot just two years later.
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A young West Baltimore man is shot and killed, dealing another blow to a family struggling with loss
Jayvon Ghim was the cousin of Milton Carrington, who was killed at 16 in 2019. Ghim was fatally shot just two years later. - The backlog of Baltimore-area criminal cases includes those of a police sergeant accused of assault, an alleged drug conspiracy involving a prominent defense attorney, and a husband accused of murdering his wife and blaming a panhandler.
- A Columbia man who livestreamed himself at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for entering the building.
- Funeral arrangements have been made for Jayden Baldree, a Dundalk teen who died Monday in a hit-and-run crash.
- Activist DeRay Mckesson says his team has uncovered nearly 200 inconsistencies from the five trials of Keith Davis Jr. and they published the instances in a website. It's part of a new campaign to pressure Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to drop the case.
- A Maryland police department is settling a workplace discrimination lawsuit that alleged white officers used racist slurs, circulated text messages expressing a desire to “reinstitute lynching” and put a black face and Afro wig on a training dummy.
- A Baltimore man was arrested and charged with murder and child abuse as police say he fatally beat 1-year-old Zariea Dixon when he was babysitting her in October 2020.
- A former Maryland Transit Administration Police officer is charged with misconduct in office and assault as prosecutors say he repeatedly punched a man and slammed him to the ground during an incident at a Baltimore metro station last year.
- As Maryland continues to outpace much of the country in incarcerating alleged juvenile offenders in adult prisons and jails, a number of advocates pushed legislators to end a statewide policy mandating that minors accused of committing certain crimes be automatically charged as adults.
- Baltimore has seen a rise this year in the number of young people either killed or shot, according to Baltimore Police data.
- A 24-year-old man was shot and killed on a front porch in East Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon, police said.
- A gang member was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for his role in the killing of a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed and cut more than 100 times at a Maryland home before his body was set on fire.
- A Baltimore Police lieutenant was paid for three days when she did not work a full shift, according to court documents charging her with theft and misconduct.
- A 16-year-old girl was killed after being hit by a car in Dundalk early Monday morning, police said.
- A 35-year-old Baltimore man was found guilty by a Howard County jury of attempted second-degree murder after fleeing from Baltimore County police officers and firing shots at them in Elkridge last year.
- Baltimore police released surveillance photos of two men they want to identify in the killing of Vaseles Nettles, a 64-year-old shot as he was trying to retrieve his stolen scooter Monday night, police said.
- Howard County police have arrested a 34-year-old man in the May 30 shooting of Jaden Ealey, who died nearly two weeks later as a result of his injuries, the department said Tuesday.
- Three days after a 21-year-old man was fatally shot by police officers outside a McDonald’s restaurant, a Maryland police chief provided details Monday about the “armed standoff,” but did not say what prompted officers to kill the suspect.
- Karon Foster, 27, pleaded guilty to three counts of racketeering and as part of his plea is expected to receive between 30 and 40 years in federal prison for a 2019 crime spree that left three dead and a Baltimore police sergeant gravely wounded.
- A 45-year-old man is dead after a shooting close to Poe Homes in Baltimore.
- Nicholas Lee, 24, was fatally shot at a grocery store Tuesday. The abrupt end to Lee’s life makes little sense to his family who remember him as a “peaceful person,” a devoted dad and an active member of his community.
