Archives for January 2017

Suspect in New Year’s Eve Murder Dies after Self-Inflicted Wound

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A 15-year-old Howard County boy, the suspect in a New Year’s Eve killing in Ellicott City, has died of self-inflicted wounds. The youth apparently shot himself in the head after firing shots at a 16-year-old neighbor and her mother.

According to police, the girl’s mother had picked her up from a New Year’s Eve party some time after midnight and returned home. Moments later, she heard noises in her daughter’s bedroom and went in to see what was happening. She discovered her daughter struggling with the young man, who was wearing a mask. When the mother confronted the intruder, he shot her and her daughter, then shot himself.

Police say they have no evidence to suggest any relationship or connection between the suspect and the girl, but are investigating whether the boy may have been involved in a string of burglaries in the neighborhood in recent weeks. They say that the gun used was stolen from another residence on Marybeth Way.

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Baltimore Police Investigate First Homicides of 2017

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Just hours into 2017, Baltimore police are investigating two unrelated homicides.

Just after 3 pm, officers heard shots in the 1800 block of West Fayette Street. When they arrived at the scene, they found a 20-year-old male with fatal wounds to his upper torso.

Just two hours later, in the 1000 block of North Mount Street, another officer hear gunfire and saw a suspect running with a gun. He found an adult male with gunshot wound in a car nearby. The man was taken to a hospital, but died from his injuries.

The number of homicides in Baltimore decreased in 2016 from the year before. Officials reported 319 intentional killings in the city in 2016, compared with a record 344 the year before. In 2014, the city reported just 211 killings, the second lowest number in nearly half a century.

Top-Rated Criminal Defense Attorney in Columbia, MD

Attorney Jonathan Scott Smith, a Maryland Super Lawyer, has fought for the rights of criminal defendants in Maryland for more than three decades. Because of his record and reputation for effective representation, he has been awarded the Client’s Choice Award from AVVO, based on an average client review of 5 stars (the highest rating possible). He has a perfect 10.0 Superb rating as a litigation attorney from AVVO, and has also built an outstanding reputation with his colleagues in the legal profession, earning an AV-rating under Martindale-Hubbell’s Peer Review Rating System. Smith was also recognized as a 2012 Top Rated Lawyer by The American Lawyer Magazine and Martindale-Hubbell.

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