NEWS
October 9, 2009
City man, 39, dies of gunshot wound to the head City police are investigating the shooting death of a 39-year-old man in North Baltimore's Better Waverly neighborhood. Calvin Taylor of the 2600 block of Barclay St. was shot in the head at 8:25 p.m. Monday in the 2600 block of Mathews St. after getting into an argument. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remained in critical condition until he was taken off a respirator Tuesday. - Justin Fenton Man, 73, critically wounded in robbery attempt A 73-year-old man was in critical condition yesterday after being shot Wednesday night in an apparent armed robbery attempt in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said.
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By Larry Carson | May 20, 2009
A jury will resume deliberating today the fate of a 19-year-old Owings Mills man accused of murder in what prosecutors called a gang-related killing in Columbia last year. Daymar Wimbish, the defendant, is an admitted Bloods gang member; his attorney argued he was merely present at a botched robbery attempt in the early hours of May 17, 2008, that ended in the shooting death of Jason Batts, 23. "The whole gang theme was a substitute for motive," Wimbish's attorney, Spencer Hecht, said in closing arguments to the jury on Tuesday.
NEWS
May 31, 2008
A man charged with killing an off-duty Baltimore police officer was found not guilty yesterday of unrelated handgun counts. Brandon Grimes, 23, was accused of running from two police officers who had pulled him over on suspicion of speeding near his home in the 800 block of Caton Ave. Police said that as they chased him into his backyard, Grimes threw a .22-calber handgun over a fence. The jury found Grimes not guilty of all charges stemming from the April 13, 2006, incident, including possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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By Julie Scharper and Justin Fenton | December 2, 2007
A 32-year-old Annapolis man was shot twice in the Robinwood public housing complex after an apparent robbery attempt Friday night, an Annapolis police spokesman said. About 8:30, police received calls from people who reported seeing four or five men approach the victim in the 1300 block of Tyler Ave. and order him to the ground, Officer Kevin Freeman said. The victim, whom police did not identify, was taken by helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with gunshot wounds to the right thigh and left buttock, Freeman said.
NEWS
September 18, 2007
Man fatally shot by Baltimore officer A Baltimore police officer shot and killed a man who apparently tried to rob him and his girlfriend early yesterday outside a North Baltimore apartment building, a city police spokesman said. Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman, said a preliminary investigation revealed that the officer and a woman were sitting in his car in the 900 block of Belgian Ave. in the Pen Lucy neighborhood when a man approached about 4 a.m. The man, whose face was partially covered with a bandanna, came up to the passenger side of the car and pointed a handgun, first at the woman, next at the officer, and then again at the woman, Clifford said.
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By Richard Irwin | June 25, 2007
Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Central Bank robbery attempt -- Police were seeking a man in his mid-40s who tried to rob Wachovia Bank in the 1200 block of N. Charles St. about noon Wednesday. After saying to a bank teller that he wanted to make a withdrawal, the man told the teller not to put any dye packs among the cash and not to press the holdup alarm. Before the teller could comply, the man walked out of the bank.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS | November 22, 2002
In Baltimore City Off-duty officer fatally shoots man in robbery attempt An off-duty Baltimore police officer shot and killed an unidentified man early yesterday during an attempted robbery in Reservoir Hill, the department reported. Officer Althaniel Dailey, 39, who joined the department in February, had just driven with his brother to a house in the 800 block of Lennox St. to pick up a friend when two men suddenly appeared in the darkness, police said. One of the men put a gun to the brother's head in an apparent robbery attempt, according to police.
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By Tim Craig | September 1, 2001
A man who police believe eluded capture after attempting to rob a Lansdowne Wendy's Sunday by hiding in the restaurant's ceiling was arrested yesterday when officers found him hiding in a bedroom in Pimlico. Bill Toohey, a Baltimore County police spokesman, said the Warrant Apprehension Task Force arrested Craig Eferm Lewis, 31, about 9 a.m. at a house in the 400 block of W. Garrison Ave. Toohey said police received a tip that Lewis, of the 2700 block of Pelham Ave. in Northeast Baltimore, had been staying at the Garrison Avenue address.
NEWS
June 19, 2001
County police are investigating a holdup and a robbery attempt that occurred within less than four hours a short distance apart over the weekend on Laurel Fort Meade Road. The robbery occurred about 11 p.m. Friday when two men with bandanas over their faces entered an unlocked back door of Pizza Pride in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road (Route 198), ordered two employees at gunpoint to lie on the floor and told the manager to open the cash register, police said. The robbers fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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By Mark Ribbing | May 18, 2000
A gunman burst into a Southwest Baltimore apartment early yesterday and killed a 25-year-old man and critically wounded a 53-year-old woman during an apparent robbery attempt, city police said. The man, armed with a silver-colored handgun, entered an apartment in the 4900 block of Frederick Ave. about 2 a.m. and demanded money from the man and his girlfriend, who were in one of the bedrooms. The man went with the intruder into a hallway, where he was shot to death, police said. The gunman then entered another bedroom and shot Lardais Lemon, the mother of the man's girlfriend.