Murders this week: 6
Murders this year: 186
Two children were murdered this week in Baltimore City, becoming the 21st and 22nd homicide victims under the age of 18 this year.
Sunday, Aug. 15
11:56 p.m. Northwest District officers were driving in the Dolfield neighborhood when they came across a man lying in the middle of the road in the 4500 block of Garrison Boulevard. Richard Johnson, a 40-year-old African-American man from Glen Burnie, had been shot in the chest. He told the police officers that someone stole his motor scooter and shot him. He was transported to Sinai Hospital, where he died Aug. 16 at 9:35 a.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 17
2:59 a.m. Officers received a call to investigate a shooting in the 3100 block of Gough Street in Highlandtown, a block and a half east of Patterson Park. When they arrived, they found Lauren Zinsavage, a 15-year-old Caucasian girl, who had been shot in the chest. According to police, Zinsavage, who lived two blocks away from the scene, was shot during an altercation over a cell phone. She would have turned 16 next month. Theral Harris, a 25-year-old African-American man from East Baltimore’s Oliver neighborhood, has been arrested for the crime.
Thursday, Aug. 19
Lance Carter, a 51-year-old Caucasian man, was admitted to Union Memorial Hospital on July 8 complaining of abdominal pain. Carter had reportedly gotten in a fight over heroin in his home in the 2100 block of St. Paul Street in Charles Village. He died at 8:40 a.m. on July 17, and on Aug. 19 the medical examiner deemed his death a homicide due to blunt force trauma from the July 8 beating. Dominick Edward, a 40-year-old Caucasian man from the same block, who was initially charged with assaulting Carter, is now charged with his murder.
Friday, Aug. 20
12:15 a.m. D’Koy Dancy, an African-American boy, was shot and killed just a few blocks from his home in the West Hills neighborhood near the city line. He was shot in the back from a second-story window. Ronald Johnson, a 30-year-old African-American man, has been charged with the crime. Johnson is a police officer with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. According to Baltimore City Police, Johnson, who was off-duty and at home at the time of the incident, claims that Dancy was trying to break into a shed outside his home in the 5000 block of Lindsay Road. Dancy was taken to Shock Trauma and pronounced dead less than an hour later. He was 14.
11:15 p.m. Almost 12 hours later, the Homicide Unit was notified that a woman had fallen from a building and died. Tammy Patterson, a 41-year-old African-American, was found lying on the pavement in the 1200 block of Brentwood Avenue in the Johnston Square neighborhood in East Baltimore. She fell from her fourth-story apartment. Police believe she was pushed.
Sunday, Aug. 22
10:30 p.m. Deandre Moore, a 28-year-old African-American man from Cherry Hill, was leaving the Park Heights neighborhood walking east on Oswego Avenue. When he reached the 2600 block, someone came out of an alley and shot him. Moore fell and the gunman stood over him and continued firing.
Latest MP3s
