Suspects

By Baltimore Witness Staff - February 5, 2025
Attempted Murder | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Suspects |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced the arrest of Raynard Venable in connection with a non-fatal Eastern District shooting incident. On Nov. 29, 2024, Venable shot a 57-year-old victim in... Read More

By Sage Cho - February 4, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Featured | Homicides | Non-Fatal Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details Teenage Defendants Plead Guilty in 2023 Brooklyn Day Mass Shooting Case Of the guilty plea deals offered in 2024, three defendants were charged in the 2023 Brooklyn Day mass shooting.... Read More

By Abraham Leo [former] , --- staff --- - February 3, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Suspects |

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K Copeland scheduled the trial date for a 20-year-old attempted murder defendant for May. 7. Zavon Antonio Beasley faces over two dozen charges, including... Read More

By Jamiya Austin [former] , --- staff --- - February 3, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details Lionel Matthews, 41, appeared before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer for the first day of his trial on Feb.2.  Matthews faces first-degree murder and related firearms charges... Read More

By Caroline Sutley [former] - February 3, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Suspects |

Details On Feb. 3, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland granted a request from defense counsel for what will be the final postponement of a jury trial for 33-year-old... Read More

By Carmen Gregg [former] - February 3, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details Walter Jeremy Bush, 28, and Quincee Joe Moon, 19, were granted a motion to join their cases during a hearing on Feb. 3. Bush and Moon are suspects in the... Read More

By Claire Schreiber [former] , Carmen Gregg [former], Tomas Coles - February 3, 2025
Attempted Murder | Court | Shooting | Suspects |

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court  Judge Robert Taylor sentenced Arthur McCaden, 19, to life imprisonment in connection to four T-Mobile armed robbery incidents from April 2023, including one where he shot... Read More

By Claire Schreiber [former] , Kristen Wheeler [former] - January 31, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects |

Details During reception court on Jan. 31, 19-year-old Bishop Chance stood before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa Copeland to schedule a hearing in his homicide case. Chance is charged with... Read More

By Claire Schreiber [former] , Kristen Wheeler [former] - January 31, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects |

Details Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Melissa Copeland with the help of an interpreter scheduled a jury trial for three codefendants accused of homicide in a hearing on Jan. 31. Twenty-one-year-old Brian... Read More

By Carmen Gregg [former] , Claire Schreiber [former], Tomas Coles , Kristen Wheeler [former] - January 31, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects |

Details During a pre-trial conference on Jan. 31, Baltimore City Circuit Judge Melissa K. Copeland scheduled a hearing on a defense motion to dismiss a case due to an alleged violation... Read More

By Tomas Coles - January 31, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | stabbing | Suspects |

Details In reception court on Jan. 31, Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Melissa Copeland scheduled a mental health hearing and a jury trial for a man charged with stabbing a 14-year-old. Brandon... Read More

By Ben Dutcher [former] - January 30, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details A jury acquitted Daquan Parker, 27, for the murder of 19-year-old Rasheed Lindsey on Jan. 29. The incident occurred on March 9, 2024 on the 5000 block of Pembridge Avenue. ... Read More

By Jamiya Austin [former] - January 30, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects | Victims |

Details A 25-year-old murder defendant was found mentally incompetent to stand trial, and he was deemed a danger to himself and others.  Ajay Wiggins is charged with first-degree murder in connection... Read More

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 30, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Juveniles | Suspects | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced the death of E’vaa Sewell, a 10-year-old girl, on Jan. 28. Investigators believe Sewell accidentally shot herself in the head at her grandmother’s home... Read More

By Tomas Coles - January 30, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details Paul Ray IV was sentenced to a modified life term on Jan. 29 by Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Alan Lazerow for the fatal shooting of Bryson Hudson. Ray previously... Read More

By Carmen Gregg [former] , Jamiya Austin [former] - January 29, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Suspects | Victims |

Details Joseph J. White III was sentenced to 40 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of second-degree murder for pushing Christopher Foster, 28, onto the train tracks at... Read More

By Caroline Sutley [former] - January 29, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects | Victims |

Details On Jan. 29, Marcel Terry Smith, 47, appeared in Baltimore City Circuit Court to discuss a potential modification of his life sentence for the 1994 murder of Antoinette Wilson. The... Read More

By Laura Flores [former] - January 29, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Suspects |

Details A man accused of shooting at his roommate in an argument over alcohol was denied bail and home detention instead of jail on Jan. 28.  Charles Ward, 25, is charged... Read More

By Carmen Gregg [former] - January 28, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Shooting | Suspects |

Details Matthew Biegel, 39, a former teacher at Reginald F. Lewis High School, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree assault during a plea hearing on Jan. 27 before Baltimore City... Read More

By Claire Schreiber [former] , Tomas Coles , Ziqi Zhou [former] - January 28, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Shooting | Suspects |

Details Police and bystander witnesses took the stand on Jan. 27, the fourth day of 27-year-old Daquan Parker’s homicide trial before Baltimore City Circuit Judge Nicole Baremore. Parker is accused of... Read More

By Caroline Sutley [former] , Laura Flores [former] - January 27, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Suspects |

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

By Caroline Sutley [former] , Laura Flores [former] - January 27, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Suspects |

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

By Abraham Leo [former] - January 27, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Homicides | Suspects |

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland pushed back a 22-year-old homicide defendant’s pre-trial hearing to consider his legal options. The hearing was initially scheduled to take place on... Read More

By Caroline Sutley [former] - January 27, 2025
Court | Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting | Shooting | Suspects |

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