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Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland reset the trial of 21-year-old homicide defendant Cahari Ferguson to May 27. Ferguson and co-defendant Tyrell White are charged with two counts... Read More

Jury Trial Set for Defendant in Attempted Murder

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland scheduled a jury trial for 29-year-old attempted murder defendant William Demetrius Elliot for April 17. Elliot is charged with attempted first- and... Read More

Victim’s Girlfriend Cries in Court Over Gas Station Homicide

Details Counsel delivered opening statements in the first day of homicide defendant Davonte Hamlett’s jury trial on Feb. 10. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer B. Schiffer presided over an emotional... Read More

Defense Objects to ‘Poison’ Question During Homicide Jury Selection

Details Jury selection began on a note of controversy in a first-degree murder trial on Feb. 7. Davonte Hamlett, 21, is on trial for the murder of Sherman Anderson, 25 on... Read More

Autopsy Reveals Victim Succumbed to Injuries From 4 Years Ago

By Baltimore Witness Staff - February 7, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an update regarding a 2021 homicide case. On Jan. 30, 2021, at approximately 9:24 p.m., Terrell Turmon was shot and critically injured in the... Read More

Man Pleads Guilty to Fratricide

Details A man accused of fatally shooting his brother and fleeing to North Carolina pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and firearm use in a violent crime before Baltimore City Circuit Court... Read More

Prosecutor Says ‘Cold-Blooded Killer’ Guilty of Thanksgiving Week Murder

Details Dontae Johnson, 30, was absent from his family’s table on Thanksgiving in 2021. Instead, he was laid out on an autopsy table, where medical examiners announced the cause of his... Read More

Firearms and Cellphone Evidence Linked to Appleton Street Murder Suspect

Details Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Althea M. Handy presided over the third day of a jury trial for 29-year old defendant Kemonta Johnson. Johnson is accused of the murder of... Read More

Defendant in Non-Fatal Shooting Enters Alford Plea While Maintaining Innocence

Details Dustin Jackson, 31, entered what’s known as an Alford plea in relation to the non-fatal shooting of 31-year-old Joseph Oglesby that occurred on July 29, 2024. The action enables him... Read More

Victim Identified in Carswell Street Homicide

By Baltimore Witness Staff - February 5, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an update regarding a homicide. Justin Davis, a Black male born on Nov. 13, 1989, was involved in a Jan. 26 incident that occurred... Read More

BPD Identifies Victim in January Homicide

By Baltimore Witness Staff - February 5, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an update regarding a Jan. 26 homicide. Justin Davis, a Black male born on Nov. 13, 1989, was killed in the 1500 block of... Read More

Prosecution Presents Aerial, Body-Worn Camera Footage in Appleton Street Murder Trial

Details “I’ve been dealing this sh*t for two years because of a crime I didn’t even commit!” said 29-year-old defendant Kemonta Johnson to the court on the first day of his... Read More

Top Headlines of 2024

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

East Biddle Street Shooting Victim Announced Dead

By Baltimore Witness Staff - February 4, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Shooting | Victims |

Details The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an update regarding a homicide. Troy Kavanaugh, a Black male born on Nov. 19, 1987, was killed on Feb. 2. The incident occurred in... Read More

Trial Underway for Homicide Defendant

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

Judge Grants Joinder for Defendants in Elderly Victim Shooting Case

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

Jury Acquits Pembridge Avenue Murder Suspect

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

Citing Dangerousness, Judge Deems Homicide Defendant Incompetent For Trial

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

10-Year-Old Girl Dies Days After Shooting Self in the Head

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

‘He Didn’t Want to Die,’ Victim’s Mother Tells Defendant At Sentencing

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

Judge Sets Court Dates in Homicides, Attempted Murder Cases

Details Darrell Morton, 37, was among the defendants coming before Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Melissa K. Copeland on Jan. 29 to consider his homicide case. Morton and his co-defendant Kalim... Read More

Judge Sentences Metro Track Murder Defendant to 40 Years

By Carmen Gregg , Jamiya Austin - 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

Defendant Seeks Release for 1994 Homicide as Youth

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

Police Arrest 15-Year-Old Suspect in Connection to McDonald’s Homicide

By Baltimore Witness Staff - January 28, 2025
Daily Stories | Homicides | Juveniles | Victims |

Details On Jan. 28, the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced an arrest in reference to a Northern District homicide. The 15-year-old suspect is accused of fatally shooting and killing 38-year-old security... Read More