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From ‘Below Deck’ to a Baltimore tugboat: How Eddie Lucas found his way home
Hampden resident talks about life on both the reality TV series and the city’s Inner Harbor.
“Below Deck” star Eddie Lucas stands along the Fells Point waterfront Sunday, Dec.24,2022 in Baltimore.
One teen dead, four others shot in mass shooting at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
A 16-year-old boy has died and four other teenage boys were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village Shopping Center.
One person has died and four others were injured in a mass shooting at the Edmondson Village shopping center Wednesday morning.
Police name 8-year-old victim shot dead in West Baltimore rowhouse last week
The boy shot dead in a West Baltimore rowhouse on Friday was 8-year-old Dylan King and his death is being treated as an “open active homicide investigation,” police said Wednesday morning.
Baltimore Police crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Boy, 7, fatally shot in West Baltimore rowhouse as gun violence surges to end year
Police officers discovered the boy’s body upstairs with a gunshot wound to the head.
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Driven by warrants, arrests are up in Baltimore for the first time in more than a decade
Police say the emphasis on warrant arrests came over the summer as part of the department’s deployment plan and initiatives with law enforcement partners.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, right, speaks during a press conference at Baltimore City Hall on Wednesday, Dec. 21. To his left is Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.
Maryland State Police are tracking 5 security guard-related shootings, records show
The records reveal for the first time the scope of a recent spate of shootings involving armed security guards and offer a window into how the state police monitor the incidents.
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Key partner could be left out of push to expand city’s flagship anti-gun-violence program
A rift has been growing between the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement and Roca Maryland.
Photo collage of broken handshake between two women with map of Baltimore’s Western Police District in background.
‘He always wanted more’: Real estate upstart killed in Park Heights wasn’t the intended target
Police believe Jalil George, 24, was driving a car that was similar to a car used in a different shooting that occurred earlier in the neighborhood.
A photo collage of Jalil George, 24, is displayed at a vigil in his memory held at the Western School of Technology in Catonsville on December 10, 2022. George was fatally shot while visiting his investment property in Park Heights after he was apparently misidentified.
Baltimore’s firefighting vehicle fleet is depleted; council members want a plan to fix it
Department leadership, which was just upended following a scathing report on a fatal fire on South Stricker Street in January, contend they are doing everything they can to address the issues.
A member of the Baltimore City Fire Department’s Emergency Medical Services team loads up a stretcher into the back of an ambulance on August 17, 2022. The Black Community Development Coalition and homeless advocates set up an encampment Wednesday at the War Memorial Plaza to encourage Baltimore leaders to make the encampments around the city more of a priority.
Baltimore outlines plan to take flagship anti-violence strategy citywide within two years
Some, however, express skepticism that the Baltimore Police Department has the manpower to support the expansion.
Baltimore Police commissioner Michael Harrison speaks during a city announcement for plans tp expand the Group Violence Reduction Strategy from the west policing districts into one or more additional policing precinct by early next year.
Lawmakers mull giving Maryland AG power to prosecute officers in police-related deaths
A year after state lawmakers gave the Maryland attorney general greater investigatory authority in police-involved deaths, local prosecutors have so far declined to charge any officers.
On Tuesday afternoon, Baltimore Police Commissioner Harrison released the body-worn footage from this past Sunday’s fatal shooting of Tyree Moorehead. He and Deputy Commissioner Brian Nadeau walked through the footage with members of the press and answered a few questions Tuesday afternoon.
Q&A: Ray Kelly, West Baltimore native, police reform activist and lifetime award recipient
"In Baltimore City, things are so deeply rooted, that it’s not about a crime problem, it’s not about a violence problem — it’s always been a pain problem.'
Ray Kelly, CEO of Citizens Policing Project, in church after receiving the Msgr. Arthur F. Valenzano Joyful Servant Award from the Catholic Charities of Baltimore.
State clears off-duty BPD sergeant in East Baltimore barber shop shooting
The decisions will allow Burch, who joined the Baltimore Police Department in April 2014, to return from desk duty.
A still from surveillance camera footage shows the moment Carlos Ortega, left, shot Rafael Jeffers, right, while David Burch, an off-duty Baltimore Police Department sergeant, sat in Jeffers' barber's chair.
Medical examiners cooperated with police in alleged cover-up of Anton Black’s death, family says
The complaint also found that Black decedents were found to be homicide victims 8% of the time, compared to white decedents being found to be homicide victims 21% of the time.
In this Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, Jennell Black, mother of Anton Black, looks at a collection of her son's belongings at her home in Greensboro, Md. Relatives of Anton Black, a 19-year-old Black man who died during a struggle with police officers on Maryland's Eastern Shore, have reached a $5 million partial settlement of their wrongful death lawsuit, an agreement that also requires improvements in police training and policies, family attorneys announced Monday, Aug. 8, 2022.
When a security guard opens fire, what happens next? Spate of Baltimore cases tests system
Three people have been shot — two fatally — at the hands of private, armed security guards in Baltimore in the last month.
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Cellmate charged in killing of deaf detainee at Baltimore city jail
Gordon Staron Jr. is charged in the killings of 63-year-old Keith Bell at an East Baltimore bus stop and Javarick Gantt, 34, who was found ”unresponsive” at the jail on Oct. 9.
Gordon Staron, middle, is under investigation for the killing in Baltimore's Central Booking of Javarick Gantt, left. Staron was already being detained for the fatal stabbing of Keith Bell, right.
A man died in Central Booking on Monday. The next morning, four detainees suffered ‘possible overdoses’
Cortez Johnson, 21, was found unresponsive in his cell on Monday with “no obvious signs of trauma or foul play,” officials said.
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Highlandtown community demands ‘justice’ for soccer coach shot dead by security guard at bar
Shooting of Kevin Torres centers on an accusation by the security guard, who told police Torres threw a brick at him, causing him to fire his weapon.
A photo of Kevin Torres hangs on a fence at a makeshift memorial at the ChrisT bar on the northern edge of Highlandtown. Torres was fatally shot by a security guard at the bar early Monday morning.
Baltimore Police release body camera footage of officer shooting ‘No Shoot Zone’ activist
The Baltimore Police Department identified the officer who shot and killed Tyree Moorehead as Zachary Rutherford, who has been with the department since March of this year.
On Tuesday afternoon, Baltimore Police Commissioner Harrison released the body-worn footage from this past Sunday’s fatal shooting of Tyree Moorehead. He and Deputy Commissioner Brian Nadeau walked through the footage with members of the press and answered a few questions Tuesday afternoon.
13-year-old girl in ‘grave condition’ after being shot in the head in East Baltimore, police say
The shot was intended for someone in a vehicle in the parking lot of a liquor store, but instead hit a young person standing outside, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison leads a press conference about a 13-year-old girl shot in the head while standing outside a liquor store on . She was not believed to be the intended target.
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