Criminal Justice

The pandemic and the national racial reckoning led to a surge in patients and clients for Black therapists. Some of those therapists are still processing the experiences themselves.

A preliminary investigation indicates the shooting was 'domestic-related,' police said.

“He certainly has not committed any sort of violent crime,” said Michael Clinkscale, the teen’s attorney, outside the John R. Hargrove Sr. District Court Building.

Those who agreed to speak to The Banner, some in Spanish, reported racist language and intimidation directed at Latino residents from Charles Smith and members of his family.

The staff at MedStar Harbor Hospital is used to tending gunshot wounds once every other week. But last weekend they treated two-thirds of the Brooklyn mass shooting victims.

Investigators believe a verbal dispute led to a physical altercation, and then shots were fired, police said.

Simon wrote that Williams, more so than other actors made famous by “The Wire,” took heed of the show’s message to challenge mass incarceration and drug policy and “continued to deliver on that message in word and deed.”

Police identified the woman Saturday as 45-year-old Lakisha Wheeler.

Political experts say voters will remember what could be the largest shooting in city history — and Mayor Scott’s leadership in the aftermath.

Baltimore City officials and Safe Streets passed out food, offered help, and staged a march in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Brooklyn.

Under the newly drawn districts, police department officials have shifted certain areas of the city that had more violent crimes into larger districts that are historically even more violent, a Baltimore Banner data analysis found.

The teen’s attorney says police are alleging his client pulled a gun out of a bag several hours before the shooting.

Two people were killed in the shooting that broke out around 12:35 a.m. Sunday, and the wounded ranged from age 13 to 32.

In one instance, the teacher allegedly “held a knife against one of the victims and asked if he should ‘use it,’” according to police.

Police have charged one man with assault and other offenses and were searching for two other people, a woman and a man, whom they plan to charge with assault.

Four Safe Streets workers from Baltimore’s leading violence intervention program monitored the block party Saturday at Brooklyn Homes, but clocked out and left about an hour before gunfire erupted.

Baltimore leaders held the crime walk Wednesday days after the shooting rocked the Brooklyn Homes community.

Investigators have long searched for a link between the killings of Malecki and Sister Cathy Cesnik, a teacher at Archbishop Keough High School.

Aaliyah Gonzalez was just 18 years old when she was shot and killed at a festive gathering in Baltimore’s Brooklyn Homes community. Gonzalez’s family describes her as their whole world. They are devastated by her murder. Now, they are asking the public to come forward with tips that might help detectives capture the people who discharged their guns, bringing an end to her life.

Taylor Taranto, 37, who prosecutors say participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, kept two firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition inside a van he had driven across the country and had been living in, according to a Justice Department motion that seeks to keep him behind bars.