By
Baltimore Witness Staff
- August 21, 2025
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Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a homicide investigation in the Western District. On Aug. 20, at approximately 1:32 p.m., Western District patrol officers responded to the 2800 block of... Read More
By
Sanaya Warner
- August 19, 2025
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Details Counsel debated DNA, cellphone and journal entry evidence as the drug-related murder trial of Tyrone Gerald White, 42, closed on Aug. 19. White is charged with first- and second-degree murder,... Read More
By
Maya St. Hillaire [former]
- August 18, 2025
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Details The prosecution attempted to link 42-year-old Tyrone Gerald White to a murder scene on the fourth day of his trial through cellular analysis before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn... Read More
By
Maya St. Hillaire [former]
- August 18, 2025
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Details Murder defendant Jason Williams, 37, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland on Aug. 18 for a new trial date. He is charged with first-degree murder and... Read More
By
Baltimore Witness Staff
- August 18, 2025
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Homicides
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Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a homicide investigation in the Southern District. On Aug. 18, at approximately 11:33 a.m., officers responded to the 2700 block of Manokin Street regarding... Read More
By
Sanaya Warner
- August 16, 2025
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Details The trial of Joseph Coates, 42, was delayed on Aug. 15 due to scheduling conflicts on the prosecution’s side. The prosecution told the court neither she nor two detectives to... Read More
By
Tomas Coles [former]
- August 15, 2025
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Details Lawyers exchanged heated accusations in Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Piper F. McKeithen‘s courtroom during a status hearing for 17-year-old murder defendant Xyliq Synzere on Aug. 13. Synzere is charged... Read More
By
Ethan Russo [former]
- August 15, 2025
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Homicides
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Details In response to the prosecution’s murder allegation, defendant Jason Williams delivered a long closing argument in his defense on Aug. 15. Williams, 37, is charged with first-degree murder and several... Read More
By
Sage Cho
- August 14, 2025
Attempted Murder
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Court
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Homicides
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Non-Fatal Shooting
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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
Baltimore Witness Staff
- August 14, 2025
Daily Stories
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Homicides
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Traffic
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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
Aubrey Mbimba
- August 14, 2025
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Details Jason Williams, 37, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Michael A. DiPietro for a hearing on Aug. 14 to represent himself at his homicide trial. Williams faces a total... Read More
By
Kabir Broker [former]
- August 13, 2025
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Details Representing himself, Jason Williams’ murder trial continued before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Michael A. DiPietro on Aug. 13, with the prosecution introducing multiple witnesses to describe crime scene footage. ... Read More
By
Andrew Michaels
- August 12, 2025
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stabbing
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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
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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 [former]
- August 12, 2025
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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 [former]
- August 12, 2025
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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 [former]
- August 12, 2025
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Featured
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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 [former]
- August 12, 2025
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Data
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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
Tomas Coles [former]
- August 11, 2025
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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
Nicholas Carter [former]
- August 11, 2025
Attempted Murder
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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 [former]
- August 11, 2025
Attempted Murder
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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 [former]
- August 11, 2025
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Juveniles
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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
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Homicides
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Shooting
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Victims
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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