City man, 18, charged with three counts of attempted murder
An 18-year old Baltimore man accused of getting into a gunbattle with police after his mother's friend was shot in the head last week has been charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder and other offenses, police said.
If convicted, Montreal Proctor, 18, of the 2000 block of W. Saratoga St. could be sentenced to life in prison.
The shooting occurred about 11 p.m. May 7 when Proctor was in East Baltimore and his mother and a friend of hers came by in a black sport utility vehicle to pick him up.
Parker told his mother, Tressie Clark, to stop the SUV near in an alley. He left the truck and came back with a bulge in his shirt that his mother's friend, Annette Burch, believed was a gun, according to charging documents written by Detective Anthony Kreafle of the Southeast District detective unit.
The three began to argue and Burch got out of the SUV in the first block of S. Ellwood Ave. and refused to get back in. Proctor threatened to rob Burch and then pointed a handgun at her head and fired once, according to the charging documents. Burch was able to flag down a police patrol car in the 3000 block of E. Baltimore St.
Officer Peter Heron stayed with her while two others, Sgt. John V. Sieracki III and Officer Joseph Grossman, found the SUV at East Baltimore Street and North Linwood Avenue. When the officers got out of their patrol cars, Proctor "opened the door and jumped out of the vehicle holding his waistband area," according to charging documents.
Grossman chased Proctor. At one point, the suspect turned and fired at Grossman but did not hit the officer, documents say. Police said they believe his handgun jammed after firing the shot. Grossman fired twelve rounds at Proctor, but no bullets hit him, documents say. Sieracki chased Proctor through several alleys, police said.
Burch was treated and released at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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Man guilty of bank robbery
A Howard County man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore yesterday to robbing a bank in Elkridge in November and escaping with more than $8,500, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office.
John Jakes, 55, of Elkridge could receive up to 25 years in federal prison when he is sentenced July 18.
