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One person was found dead in the rubble of an East Baltimore rowhouse destroyed by fire and a possible explosion Wednesday afternoon. - The family of a Marine veteran killed outside a Baltimore nightclub by an off-duty police officer in June of 2010 will receive a $200,000 settlement from the city in a lawsuit claiming that the officer should have been removed previously from the force.
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- Police officers convicted of a crime and sentenced to state prison are typically housed in segregated areas. But those prosecuted in U.S. District Court and sentenced to federal prison — like the Baltimore officers convicted in a kickback scheme — will mostly be with other convicts.
- Laboard was charged with two counts of manslaughter — one involuntary — in the asphyxiation death of the Randallstown High School teen; either count could carry a 10-year sentence.
- With Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III planning to leave the city in August, after having served 31 years on the force, and five as chief, we put together a time line of his tenure:
- Baltimore Police name officer in shooting, a policy that was nearly eliminated
- The year 2011 as seen through the rear-view mirror, the high- and the low lights of the year in Baltimore and Maryland
- Officer Tshamba should have removed from the force for earlier gun incident
- Misguided chivalry leads two men to trigger incidents that end in three unnecessary deaths.
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- Tshamba sentencing shows police will be held accountable for serious criminal misconduct
- Baltimore Police Officer Gahiji Tshamba was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison, with an additional two years suspended, in the shooting death of a 32-year-old Marine veteran last year outside a city bar.
- The exoneration of four officers in the killing of Baltimore policeman William Torbit Jr. does not erase the stain of the incident; now the department needs to enact policies to make sure nothing like this happens again. The most obvious is to require virtually all patrol officers to wear uniforms.
- Sian James was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for hurling a chunk of concrete at an off-duty Baltimore police officer last year, killing Det. Brian Stevenson during a heated argument over a parking space.
- Personnel records of Baltimore Officer Gahiji Tshamba, who was convicted of manslaughter last month for killing a man outside a city bar, may be considered as part of a "pre-sentence investigation" if they show a history of prior problems, a judge said Wednesday.
- The city and Police Department, along with their top officials, can be sued under federal law for allegedly failing to control Officer Gahiji Tshamba, who was convicted of manslaughter last month in state court after repeated instances of prior professional misconduct, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled.
- Baltimore police officer Gahiji Tshamba unloaded his service weapon into an unarmed man last year after a night of off-duty club hopping, striking Tyrone Brown 12 times. Tshamba's attorneys claim Brown was the aggressor, but the first witness in Tshamba's murder trial said otherwise Wednesday.
