Daily Stories

By Nicholas Carter - August 15, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories |

Details Travis Maynor, 45, is set to stand trial on Aug. 18 for the 2024 Patterson Avenue gas station shooting that critically injured a 28-year-old man. He faces charges including attempted first-degree murder, armed robbery, and multiple firearm offenses. The case, linked to Maynor through surveillance, ballistics, and cellphone records, was delayed after both lead attorneys were absent due to illness. Read More

By Sage Cho - August 14, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Victims |

Details “It’s been 866 days — long days — that justice has been waiting,” the prosecution said on Aug. 14, the final day of Marvelle Antonio Worsley’s mass shooting trial. She... Read More

By Ethan Russo - August 14, 2025
Attempted Murder | Daily Stories | stabbing |

Details Defendant Jaylean Weeks pleaded guilty to assault in the second degree on Aug. 14, but was not sentenced by the court. Weeks, 18, is charged with attempted murder and assault... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - August 14, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Traffic |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a fatal pedestrian-involved hit-and-run incident in the Central District. On Aug. 14, at approximately 12:15 a.m., patrol officers responded to a report of a... Read More

By Mark McNeill - August 14, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Shooting | Suspects |

Details Mark Williams, 61, pleaded guilty on Aug. 13 to attempted first-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime of violence in Baltimore City Circuit Court after Judge Gale... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - August 14, 2025
Daily Stories | Juveniles | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a shooting investigation in the Western District. On Aug. 13, at approximately 5:27 p.m., officers responded to the 1000 block of Whatcoat Street to... Read More

By Sophia Strocko - August 13, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting |

Details On Aug. 13, a 40-year-old Baltimore man accepted a plea deal for an accidental and non-fatal shooting that occurred through the walls of adjoining Canton townhouses.  Michael Franchetti pleaded guilty... Read More

By Sage Cho - August 13, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Juveniles | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details A Baltimore man allegedly found in possession of narcotics while on probation was recommended for a drug treatment program on Aug. 12 after the offense violated the terms of his... Read More

By Jane Cox - August 13, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa M. Phinn granted a prosefcution request on Aug. 13 to delay the trial of Kahlil Calloway, 26, after crime lab technicians reported DNA evidence... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - August 13, 2025
Daily Stories | Juveniles | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a shooting investigation in the Western District. On Aug. 12, at approximately 5:46 p.m., Western District patrol officers responded to an area hospital for... Read More

By Andrew Michaels - August 12, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | stabbing | Suspects | Victims |

Details A 26-year-old woman accused of fatally stabbing her fiancé’s alleged attacker in June was denied her habeas corpus petition for release on Aug. 12 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Defense... Read More

By Sophia Strocko - August 12, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details “Music, and a parking space, and perceived disrespect,” are what the prosecution cited as the causes of a multi-generational mass shooting that left three dead and one injured as counsel... Read More

By Tomas Coles - August 12, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jeannie J. Hong sentenced Lamont Bethea Johnson Jr., 37, to 60 years, suspending all but 40, on Aug. 11 for the murder of Tiwan Wilson,... Read More

By Nicholas Carter - August 12, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details Tyrone “Ty” Gerald White, 42, rejected a plea deal on Aug. 11 and will face trial for the 2017 murder and robbery of Daniel “Danny” Brinkley. Prosecutors had offered a life sentence with all but 20 to 38 years suspended, but White opted to take his case before a jury despite what Judge Lynn Stewart Mays called “roll of dice” given the eyewitness testimony, DNA evidence, cellphone records, and a journal tying him to the crime. His seven-day trial began Aug. 12. Read More

By Jane Cox - August 12, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Featured | Homicides | Shooting |

Details Tyrone Gerald White, 42, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn Stewart Mays for the first day of trial. White is accused of first-degree murder, armed robbery and several... Read More

By Kabir Broker - August 12, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Data | Homicides | Shooting |

Details Jason Williams, 37, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Michael A. DiPietro on Aug. 12 to present a motion to dismiss his attorney, Jerry Rodriguez.  Williams said Rodriguez failed... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - August 12, 2025
Daily Stories | stabbing | Suspects |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced the arrest of two individuals in connection to an aggravated assault that occurred Aug. 9 in the Southeast District. Investigators have arrested Baltimore residents... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - August 11, 2025
Daily Stories | Juveniles | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an investigation into a shooting incident in the Eastern District. On Aug. 11, at approximately 5:02 p.m., officers responded to the 1800 block of... Read More

By Tomas Coles - August 11, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details Baltimore City Court Judge Jeannie J. Hong released Shakeff Hatcher, 47, from home detention partly on a technicality as well as grounds of good behavior on Aug. 11. Hatcher was... Read More

By Ethan Russo - August 11, 2025
Attempted Murder | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

Details Shooting defendant Michael Armstrong was sentenced to life in prison with all but 70 years suspended on Aug. 8. Armstrong, 31, was found guilty in May of attempted first-degree murder,... Read More

By Nicholas Carter - August 11, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides |

Details At a reception court pre-trial hearing today, Joseph Coates, 41, appeared on charges including armed robbery, firearm use in a felony crime of violence, and multiple conspiracy counts in connection to the Dec. 15, 2023 killing of 26-year-old Marvin Jason Jackson Jr. on the 1800 block of Aiken Street. Coates is accused of acting as an accomplice to Joseph Walker, who was convicted last month of second-degree murder in the case. Defense attorney Gregory Fisher, newly on the case after the previous attorney was removed, told the court he will need a week to review the file. The matter is set to return Aug. 15 to appoint new counsel and set a trial date. Read More

By Nicholas Carter - August 11, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details Darren Tomlinson, 31, appeared in a reception court hearing on August 8 for charges including first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. The charges stem from a double shooting on January 19 that resulted in one man's death and another's injury. During the hearing, it was noted that Tomlinson had rejected a prior plea offer, and his next court date was scheduled for November 18. Read More

By Maya St. Hillaire - August 11, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Juveniles | Suspects | Victims |

Details A follow-up status hearing for 17-year-old murder defendant Xyliq Synzere took place before Judge Piper F. McKeithen on Aug. 8. On June 18, following a request from defense attorney Deborah... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - August 11, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an update regarding the mass shooting that occurred Aug. 9, 2025 in Central Park Heights. Jerome Michael Coateson, 38, was critically injured in the... Read More