On Wednesday afternoon, tragedy struck on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County as a collision between two cars resulted in the deaths of six highway workers and injury to the driver of one of the vehicles. 54-year-old Lisa Adrienne Lea, who was behind the wheel of an Acura, attempted to cross lanes and struck the front corner panel of a Volkswagen. The impact caused Lea to lose control of her car and veer into a construction …
One person was killed and two other people were injured during a shooting. The incident took place outside of an apartment complex in Northeast Baltimore. Shots were fired shortly before 6 p.m. at the Sinclair Gates Apartments on Bowley’s Lane. When police arrived, they found three males with gunshot wounds aged 21, 18, and 19. The 21-year-old victim ran inside an apartment unit before he died, while the other two were taken to the hospital …
In a tragic event, one man is dead and four others are injured, including two children, after a shooting and a crash in Baltimore. According to Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, officers received an alert from ShotSpotter for multiple rounds of shots fired at around 6:39 p.m. near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Laurens Street in the city’s Upton district. The man standing on the street was fatally shot and died at the hospital. …
In the vicinity of Johns Hopkins University’s Baltimore campus, violent crimes have increased in a disturbing way. The university recorded six armed robberies on and around its Homewood campus and one near its Peabody campus – two of which were abduction attempts – between October 6 and Oct. 27 alone, Branville Bard, the university’s vice president of public safety, wrote a letter to the community on Monday. “In response to this violence, the university is …
After trying to stab a security guard with a syringe, police say a man accused of shoplifting at a Baltimore CVS was shot in the face. Located in the affluent neighborhood of Harbor East, the chaos unfolded on Exeter Street’s 600 block. Patrol officers in the Southeast District responded to the scene around 9:09 a.m. to investigate a reported shooting. Upon arrival, they found an unidentified man with a gunshot wound to the face. He …
A new trial could be ordered for Adnan Syed after city prosecutors determined that their predecessors withheld information about alternative suspects in Hae Min Lee’s 1999 murder. His legal saga rocketed to international renown with the hit podcast “Serial.” Syed’s conviction was vacated Wednesday by the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office, according to legal papers filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court. In the new motion, prosecutors claim they knew decades ago that another suspect threatened to …
A crew member was forced to flee a set in Baltimore after being confronted by two men, one of whom reportedly brandished a gun. The producers have now vowed to increase security measures on the set. The Baltimore Banner, citing police, reported that drug dealers urged those working on the show to clear the set and threatened to shoot someone, while also attempting to extort $50,000 from the crew — but the producers refused to pay. A …