NEWS
By Justin Fenton and Justin Fenton,justin.fenton@baltsun.com | October 16, 2009
A paramedic has been suspended without pay after an investigation into an incident in which a man shot by Baltimore police was mistakenly pronounced dead and left on a convenience store floor for 30 minutes. Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright said the paramedic, whose name he declined to release on the grounds that it is a personnel matter, was suspended for 29 days without pay and will have to undergo retraining as a result of the Aug. 1 incident. Cartwright declined to discuss details of the investigation and suspension.
NEWS
By Liz F. Kay and Liz F. Kay,liz.kay@baltsun.com | July 30, 2009
The family of a Westminster man who died after lung transplant surgery last year has filed a wrongful-death suit against the University of Maryland Medical Center and a subcontractor for what they say was a botched procedure. According to the lawsuit, the family of Bryan Harris alleges that a contracted staffer incorrectly removed a clamp after the surgery in June 2008, allowing all of the patient's blood to drain into a bucket. Harris, 51, is survived by his wife, his parents and two children.
NEWS
December 7, 2008
Baltimore's inspector general must not have enough to do - or he's taken to impersonating a homicide detective. Someone at City Hall needs to remind Hilton Green that his primary responsibility is ferreting out government waste, fraud and abuse. Looking into the death of a well-known Baltimore contractor is a sizable stretch from his job description. Mr. Green has reportedly paid a visit to the state medical examiner's office in the matter of the May 16, 2005 death of Robert Lee Clay, who promoted minority business interests and their participation in government contracts.
NEWS
December 19, 2007
THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 275 THE VICTIMS: The death of a boy, 3, who died of head injuries June 8 at Harbor Hospital has been ruled a homicide by beating. The death remains under investigation, and no arrest had been made. A woman who was 16 when she was shot Nov. 28, 1999, on a West Baltimore street and paralyzed died Sept. 20. Her death has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner's office. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 263 homicides as of Dec. 18, 2006.
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By Chris Guy and Gadi Dechter and Chris Guy and Gadi Dechter,Sun reporters | August 2, 2007
OCEAN CITY -- Police wrapped up their three-day search yesterday at the house where four tiny bodies were found but said it might be a week or more before they receive a report on the remains from the state medical examiner's office. Forensics experts at the Baltimore lab who are studying the remains, including three that police say are mostly bones, need more time, police officials said. "We were told that the medical examiner's office is consulting with other experts," said police spokesman Pfc. Barry Neeb.
NEWS
By Richard Irwin | June 22, 2007
A 24-year-old man was shot and killed early yesterday as he was driving on Ellerslie Avenue in North Baltimore's Better Waverly neighborhood, city police said. The victim, George Wilson, of the 700 block of Gorsuch Ave., was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital about 90 minutes after the 12:20 a.m. shooting, police said. The shooting occurred in the 3100 block of Ellerslie Ave., a few blocks from Greenmount Avenue and East 33rd Street. Police said Wilson, driving a late-model blue Cadillac, had just turned right onto Ellerslie Avenue from Gorsuch Avenue when an occupant of a dark sedan fired into the car, striking him in the head.