Criminal Justice

Four other people were shot and wounded Saturday morning in the incident in Woodlawn.

One person is dead and four others were injured in an early morning shooting Saturday in Woodlawn.

A national annual scorecard gives the state a passing grade for the strength of its gun safety laws.

The city will likely record fewer than 300 homicides this year, but Baltimore’s young people were shot and killed at the highest rate in at least a decade.

A federal judge took the unusual step of reversing a jury’s guilty verdict against a Maryland doctor for health care fraud.

Joseph Black, 37, faces retrial on assault and weapons charges.

Boxer Gervonta “Tank” Davis is giving back by helping to renovate the same West Baltimore neighborhood he grew up in, city officials announced Thursday at a press conference.

Luis Rodriguez filed a lawsuit Thursday against the Baltimore Police Department for what his attorney Malcolm Ruff described as a “traumatic and unnecessary” injury. The suit claims gross negligence and battery, and it requests a jury trial.

Even with the reduction in killings — Baltimore will record its lowest homicide total since tallying 211 in 2014 — the city’s murder rate remains among the highest in the nation and is similar to what it was in the 1990s.

Baltimore is seeing fewer murders than in recent years, but many residents say the city doesn’t feel any safer, and they express a lack of confidence in the ability of city leaders to reduce violent crime, Goucher College political scientist Mileah Kromer says.

Since stepping down as police commissioner this summer, Michael Harrison has consulted in Memphis and New Orleans, and may soon be in Chicago and Minneapolis.

A jury is deliberating whether to convict Joseph Black for accelerating his car during a 2022 traffic stop, dragging Det. Sgt. Kenneth Ramberg and seriously injuring him.

A Dunbar High School student was arrested for a handgun violation on Wednesday, school officials say.

Tristan Jackson, an 18-year-old charged in last summer’s Brooklyn Day mass shooting, has been ordered to be transferred from an adult jail to a juvenile facility.

A federal judge on Wednesday turned away an initial attack on the use of race as a factor in admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, saying it is unclear if the policy is illegal under a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

A man has been charged with the fatal shooting of his two-year-old daughter Sunday in Northwest Baltimore.

The lawsuit seeks five years of ATF “trace data,” which shows where a gun recovered by police or other officers was manufactured to where it was sold at retail.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating the circumstances of the 21-year-old man’s encounter with police.

The young girl was taken to a local hospital where, despite medical efforts, she died, according to police.

Multiple threats prompted the U.S. Naval Academy to close its gates to the public for several hours Saturday, a situation cleared by midafternoon, authorities said.