Murders This Week: 6
Murders This Year: 116

Due to the holiday weekend, this week's column only covers homicides from May 21 through May 25. Last week's column, which wasn't in the print edition of the paper because it was the annual Sizzlin' Summer issue, can be found here. As of Friday, May 25, there have been 11 more homicides in Baltimore than the same time last year.

Police have released information about the person who died last week after being assaulted on May 10. At 12:35 a.m. on May 10 Alvin Parson, a 22-year-old African-American man, was involved in an argument with two men on South Gorman Avenue a few blocks south of the West Baltimore MARC stop. The argument escalated and the two men allegedly got into a car and hit Parson with it. Parson died nine days later. Witnesses took down the vehicle's license plate number, and on May 22 police arrested Anasion Waldron, a 25-year-old Caucasian man, and Panagiodis Bekiaris, a 47-year-old Caucasian man, for Parson's murder.

Tuesday, May 22

4:16 p.m. Police patrolling East Baltimore near Patterson Park saw a man lying in the street at the intersection of Port and East Fayette streets. He had been shot in the thigh. People in the area pointed police to the 2300 block of East Fayette Street near Patterson Park Avenue where a second man, 23-year-old African-American Alexander Rose, lay shot in the head near Morning Edition Café. Both men were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital. The man who was shot in the thigh survived. Rose died at 4:47 p.m.

7:12 p.m. Three hours later, Adrian Smith, a 19-year-old African-American man, was shot in the head in the 300 block of East 21st Street in Barclay. He died at Hopkins less than an hour later. Smith is the sixth person to be murdered in Barclay this year. The Barclay neighborhood, which borders Charles Village, is four blocks by five blocks.

11:47 p.m. Later that same night, four African-American men in their 20s were shot at the intersection of Guilford and Mount Royal avenues, a few blocks from Penn Station in the Midtown-Belvedere neighborhood. Two were found lying in the street while two others were able to run the two blocks to the gas station at Saint Paul Street and Mount Royal Avenue. Curtis Taylor, a 22-year-old African-American man, was shot in the head and hip and died at Hopkins at 8:24 a.m. the next day. The others survived.

Wednesday, May 23

9:05 p.m. Three African-American teenagers were shot at a gas station in the 2300 block of Frederick Avenue in Mill Hill. The three teenagers were riding in a hack that pulled up to get some gas when someone came up to the car, a silver Nissan Altima, and began shooting. The driver of the hack wasn't hit, but all three teenagers were. An 18-year-old and a 19-year-old survived. Jasman Elmore, an 18-year-old African-American male, was shot in the chest and died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center at 9:40 p.m. This is the third time a multiple shooting resulted in a death in two days.

Friday, May 25

2:25 a.m. Perry Brooks, a 49-year-old African-American man, had just pulled his gold Nissan Altima into his driveway in the 1900 block of Hillenwood Road in the Perring Loch neighborhood when someone shot him in the left side of his head and arm. He died before he could be taken to the hospital and was identified by his wife, who was not in the car at the time of the shooting.

6:25 a.m. Later that morning, police found an African-American man lying in an alley behind 4000 block of Belvieu Avenue, a residential area in Northwest Baltimore. He had been stabbed to death. Police have not yet been able to identify the victim.

Updates

Three men were arrested for the March 20 murder of Ricardo Paige this month. On May 16 police arrested Tremain Washington, a 19-year-old African-American man. Three days later, Jamal Fulton, a 21-year-old African-American man, was arrested, and on May 22, Washington's twin brother, Trendon Washington--who according to police was being held at the Baltimore City Detention Center on an unrelated weapons charge--was also charged with Paige's murder.

Police arrested Johnny Smith, a 21-year-old African-American man, on May 18 for allegedly fatally shooting Darrell Smith, a 21-year-old African-American man, in South Baltimore on April 2.

On May 23, Charles Patterson, a 27-year-old African-American man, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for several armed robberies on Oct. 23, 2005. Patterson and Antwan Smith, a 23-year-old African-American man, were both convicted of the robberies March 21 but were acquitted of the murder of Anthony Heck, a 31-year-old African-American man. Patterson and Smith were accused of fatally shooting Heck when he allegedly shot at them in the course of the robberies. Smith was sentenced to 30 years in prison.

The next day, Eric Tate, an 18-year-old African-American male, pleaded guilty to murdering Anthony Taylor Jr., a 20-year-old African-American man, and Adrian Holiday, a 19-year-old African-American man, in Barclay on Sept. 10, 2006. Under the plea agreement Tate faces a maximum sentence of 50 years in prison.

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