Baltimore City Dedicates Street To Slain Police Officer Keona Holley
City officials on Friday evening will dedicate a street to slain Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley, who was fatally shot last year in the line of duty.
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City officials on Friday evening will dedicate a street to slain Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley, who was fatally shot last year in the line of duty.
Baltimore City has received $7.9 million in federal dollars for public safety programs, including $5.3 million to help the Baltimore Police Department implement elements of the consent decree, local elected leaders said.
"The old ways, the wrong ways, which allowed for misconduct and unconstitutional policing to grow and fester within the department, are not and will not be a part of the department moving forward," Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.
Dana Hayes, Jr., the former chief of fiscal services for the Baltimore Police Department, is working to clear his name after Commissioner Michael Harrison fired him just days after he was hired.
In a departmentwide message, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison pledged a review of the agency's hiring practices after firing a recently hired administrator who is a "person of interest" in a homicide and is listed on the city's gun offender registry.
Baltimore police fired the department's recently hired chief of fiscal services because he is a "person of interest" in a homicide, Police Chief Michael Harrison confirmed Wednesday.
Starting this year, the Baltimore Police Department will hire civilian investigators to supplement its ranks of sworn officers, Commissioner Michael Harrison and Mayor Brandon Scott said.
Authorities on Thursday positively identified a woman found dead along Interstate 95 as the biological mother of a 3-year-old girl who was killed last week in a Baltimore house fire.
The federal trial of a former Baltimore detective accused of supplying a BB gun that was planted at a crash scene eight years ago got underway on Tuesday.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Police Commissioner Michael Harrison joined state lawmakers and gun control advocates in calling on Gov. Larry Hogan to sign into law a ban on "ghost guns," unserialized firearms that can be purchased as kits and assembled at home.
A monetary reward is being offered for tips in the murder of Braylon Gannon, a 15-year-old shot dead last week in West Baltimore.
Pointing to "out of control" gun violence in Baltimore City, Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday announced three spending initiatives he said would help combat crime and mitigate its effects on victims.
Danjuan McBride, 24, has been convicted of first-degree murder in the retaliatory killing of Tavonte Briggs, who was shot during a mid-afternoon dice game in 2020, the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office said.
A shooting near Baltimore's Inner Harbor sent two people, including a teen, to the hospital Friday afternoon, authorities said.
A Baltimore man is under arrest in connection with a deadly shooting last month in southwest Baltimore, authorities said.
A 51-year-old Baltimore man is under arrest in connection with a murder last month in West Baltimore, authorities said Wednesday.
An $8,000 reward is being offered for tips in the murder of a 70-year-old Baltimore woman, one of two women killed Thursday in the city.
A 21-year-old man has been arrested in charged in a Jan. 27 fatal shooting in the Frankford neighborhood, the Baltimore Police Department said Tuesday.
Hendrix and Ward admitted to robbing citizens multiple times and falsifying overtime.
An agreement is reportedly in place with lawmakers to move forward without closing businesses earlier or paying to shore up police presence in the area.
The parties entered into the settlement agreement in early January, according to court documents.
With homicides and shootings in 2022 outpacing last year's tallies, Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison touted hundreds of recent arrests Tuesday, saying police are "aggressively pursuing" violent offenders.
Police are looking for a Baltimore man suspected in a pair of recent stabbings along with the rape of a 13-year-old girl, authorities said Tuesday.
A man died on Valentine's Day after he was shot in the head in Baltimore's Brooklyn neighborhood, authorities said.
Three people were shot, two of them fatally, in a series of shootings Friday morning that played out in less than an hour across Baltimore, authorities said.
