Daily Stories

By Natalie Voorhees - May 27, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details Derrell Goines, 36, appeared in reception court on May 23 hoping to get an early trial date for a first-degree murder charge. According to court documents, detectives connected Goines to... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 26, 2025
Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Traffic |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a shooting investigation in the Southern District. On May 26, at approximately 7:12 p.m., Southern District officers responded to the 2700 block of Wegworth... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 26, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a homicide investigation in the Western District. On May 26, at approximately 1:23 a.m., Western District patrol officers responded to the 1700 block of... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 25, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an investigation into a homicide in the Eastern District. On May 24, at approximately 3:41 p.m., Eastern District patrol officers responded to the 400... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 25, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a homicide investigation in the Central District. On May 25, at approximately 2:02 a.m., Central District patrol officers responded to the 400 block of... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 24, 2025
Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a shooting investigation in the Northern District. On May 24, at approximately 7:43 p.m., Northern District patrol officers responded to an area hospital for... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 24, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | stabbing |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a homicide investigation in the Western District. On May 23, at approximately 7:56 p.m., Western District patrol officers responded to the 1800 block of... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 24, 2025
Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a shooting investigation in the Northeast District. On May 23, at approximately 9:53 p.m., Northeast District patrol officers responded to an area hospital for... Read More

By Tiffany Sartor - May 23, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details Maurice Prioleau, 28, declined a plea offer before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland on May 23. The prosecution offered Prioleau an aggregate sentence of life, suspending all... Read More

By Jena Queen - May 23, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Victims |

Details After counsel informed the court they are awaiting autopsy results and continuing to review evidence, Dakwane Cole agreed to waive his right to speedy trial before Baltimore City Circuit Court... Read More

By Sage Cho - May 23, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details Angry voices rose in Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Nicole K. Barmore’s courtroom Friday as the prosecution argued in vain against defense attorney Koryn High’s motion to acquit Chardon A.... Read More

By Sage Cho - May 23, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details Liteeaf Peterson, 25, was acquittted by a jury on May 22 on all counts but one in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The trial concluded a day prior. Jurors were unable... Read More

By Sage Cho - May 22, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details Police investigative methods and victim drug use were debated as Liteeaf Peterson’s attempted murder trial came to a close on May 21.  Peterson, 25, is charged with attempted murder, assault,... Read More

By Allyson Rogers , Riley Mathews - May 22, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Victims |

Details An aggravated assault unit sergeant with the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) testified on May 22 about surveillance footage that showed a suspect vehicle driving near the scene of a non-fatal... Read More

By Sage Cho - May 22, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The second day of an attempted murder trial quickly turned tumultuous on May 22 as defendant Phillip McCoy repeatedly disobeyed court orders and disrupted proceedings. In the end, he grudgingly... Read More

By Baltimore Witness staff - May 22, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) released body-worn footage of a fatal officer-involved shooting that occurred on May 12 in the Northern District.  According to the Office of the Maryland Attorney... Read More

By Cecilia Wetzel - May 21, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Victims |

Details On day two of Chardon A. Cruz III‘s trial the judge denied a prosecution request to admit video evidence they say is key to their case.. The proceeding is being... Read More

By Sage Cho - May 21, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details A man charged in two firearm possession cases rejected an offer to have one of his cases dismissed as part of a plea on May 21.  Franklin Titus Evans, 24,... Read More

By Tomas Coles - May 21, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details Dominic Pressley, 38, rejected a plea deal in a murder and shooting case before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jeannie J. Hong on May 21. Pressley is charged with first-degree... Read More

By Andrew Michaels - May 21, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Suspects |

Details A 44-year-old man accused of shooting his pregnant neighbor last fall rejected an offer to plead guilty to 30 years behind bars on Wednesday before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge... Read More

By Andrew Michaels - May 21, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Suspects |

Details Defendant Chardon A. Cruz III will face the jury for accusations of an attempted murder last June, but according to his counsel, the gunshot victim will neither testify nor even... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 21, 2025
Daily Stories | Juveniles | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced the arrest of a 15-year-old male suspect in connection with the shooting that occurred in the 300 block of South Macon Street on May... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - May 21, 2025
Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an investigation into a shooting incident in the Eastern District. On May 21 at approximately 12:39 a.m., Eastern District patrol officers were called to... Read More

By Tiffany Sartor - May 20, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Juveniles | Shooting |

Details Antonio Harmon, 16, pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder and firearm use before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer on May 20. Harmon faces 50 years, suspending all... Read More