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Defendant Waives Trial Start Date Against Judge’s Advice

Details At a Baltimore City Circuit Court reception hearing on Jan. 24, 28-year-old homicide defendant Bryant James Peyton waived his Hicks trial start date against Judge Melissa K. Copeland‘s advice. Peyton... Read More

Judge Approves Defense Request to Move Trial Deadline

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland approved a request to waive 32-year-old Deonte Anthony Simms’s initial Hicks date on Jan. 24 following concerns regarding his defense counsel. The... Read More

Defendant Not Guilty of Shooting Himself

Details In a bench trial on Jan. 13, James Stackhouse, 38, was exonerated of four firearm-related charges in connection to a self-inflicted wound to the genitals. Stackhouse was charged with firing... Read More

Homicide Defendant Challenges Evidence

By Claire Schreiber , Tomas Coles - January 24, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Shooting | Suspects |

Details On Jan. 24, Daquan Parker, 27, continued his third day of trial for the alleged murder of 19-year-old Rasheed Lindsey, presided over by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Nicole Barmore. There... Read More

Defense Criticizes Treatment of Brooklyn Homes Shooter’s Case

Details In a pre-trial conference hearing on Jan. 17, defense attorney Matthew Connell expressed concerns about the court’s treatment of a 19-year-old mass shooting suspect’s case. Tristan B. Jackson is charged... Read More

Judge Sets Trial Date for North Potomac Street Homicide Defendant

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland set a trial date for 37-year old homicide defendant Joseph Henry Morton, III on Jan. 24. The proceeding will start on May... Read More

DNA Evidence Points Toward one Murder Suspect, But Not Co-Defendant

By Carmen Gregg - January 24, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details Daquan Parker, 27, was probably excluded from two out of four DNA samples linked to a homicide that took place on March 9, 2024. Parker is currently on trial as... Read More

BPD Investigates Oakley Avenue Homicide

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 24, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a Northern District homicide investigation. On Jan. 24, at approximately 11:26 a.m., Northwest District patrol officers responded to an area hospital for a report... Read More

BPD Makes Arrest in Western District Homicide

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) have arrested 31-year-old Joshua Austin in connection with a homicide that occurred on Dec. 27, 2024. Investigators determined that Austin was responsible for the death... Read More

Pulaski Highway Murder Defendant Sorry, ‘From The Bottom of My Soul’

Details On Jan. 22, Tyquann Flythe, 26, suspect in a Pulaski Highway murder, accepted a plea offer before Baltimore City Circuit Judge Cynthia H. Jones during an emotional hearing as the... Read More

Judge Hands Down Decades-Long Sentence For 2023 Murder Outside Adult Club

Details A Baltimore City Circuit Court judge sentenced 31-year-old Kwante Betters to more than half of a century in prison on Jan. 21 for the murder of Stephon Stinnett outside Norma... Read More

Defense Calls Shooting Homicide Case a ‘Rush to Judgement’

By Ben Dutcher - January 22, 2025
Daily Stories | Shooting | Victims |

Details In opening statements on Jan. 22 lawyers presented different narratives about whether Daquan Parker, 27, was responsible for the fatal shooting of Rasheed Lindsey, 19. The incident occurred on March.... Read More

Murder Defendant Wants Time to Consider Plea

Details Prosecutors have offered Roger Alvarado-Mendoza, 25, a plea agreement in a murder case. Mendoza is being charged with first-degree murder, firearm use in a felony violent crime, carrying a handgun... Read More

Counsel Cites ‘Red Herrings’ and a ‘Sloppy Job’ in 2020 Homicide Closing

Details On Jan. 17, counsel argued over circumstantial and physical evidence as they presented closing statements in the trial of 33-year-old homicide defendant Jermaine Sanders. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lawrence... Read More

Northwest District Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 2 Injured

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 21, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a homicide investigation in the Northwest District. On Jan. 19, at approximately 3:22 p.m., Northwest District Patrol officers responded to the 3900 block of... Read More

Southern District Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 19, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a Southern District homicide investigation. On Jan. 19, at approximately 8:45 a.m., Southern District Officers responded to the 400 block of Washburn Avenue for... Read More

BPD Investigate W. Garrison Boulevard Shooting

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 17, 2025
Daily Stories | Shooting |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced a shooting investigation in the Northwest District. On Jan. 17, at approximately 5:50 p.m., officers responded to the 3500 block of W. Garrison Boulevard... Read More

No Plea Deal Yet for Murder Suspects

By Claire Schreiber , Tomas Coles - January 17, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects |

Details The trial of two young men accused of a murder in Baltimore was set by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland to begin this spring since no plea... Read More

Jury Convicts Man of Attempted Murder, Unrelated Carjacking on the Same Day

Details A jury has convicted 33-year-old Antionne Johnson of an attempted murder followed by an unrelated carjacking later the same day in East Baltimore in May 2022. On Dec. 26, the... Read More

Defendant Acquitted of Attempted Murder

Details A defendant was acquitted of attempted murder on Jan. 10 before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams. Marrico Bell, 44, was found not guilty of attempted first-degree murder,... Read More

Judge Accepts Defendant’s Plea of Time Served for Central Park Heights Assault in March 2024

Details A 32-year-old Baltimore woman was sentenced to time served for an assault resulting in a gunshot at the victim’s apartment in Central Park Heights last March. Kenyotta Wedington and her... Read More

‘In for a Penny, in for a Pound,’ Says Prosecutor of Driver Accused in Shooting

Details On Jan. 15, counsel gave closing statements in 25-year-old Darrean Fleming’s homicide trial before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Lynn S. Mays. Fleming was charged with two counts of first-degree... Read More

Detective Provides Video Surveillance of Drive-by Shooting Homicide

Details A police detective testified against a homicide defendant on Jan. 14 in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Darrean Fleming, 25, along with his co-defendants 22-year-old Wesley Lambert and 24-year-old Garry Morris,... Read More

Father and Son Charged with Attempted Murder in Connection with October Shooting

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 14, 2025
Attempted Murder | Daily Stories | Shooting | Suspects |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced the arrest of two individuals in connection with a shooting in the Eastern District on Oct. 13, 2024. Investigators have arrested 22-year-old Travis Braxton... Read More