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September 21, 2009

Weekend shooting spate

The note from Baltimore Police Department's chief spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, came out mid-afternoon on Saturday:

"Commissioner Bealefeld is meeting with various section chiefs about a revised deployment which will include an increased presence by the Patrol division and specialized deployments in strategic areas by undercover operations units and the Violent Crime Impact Division (VCID). Investigators do have some positive leads in some of these shootings and detectives are currently working to determine if there is a commonality among them. Community intelligence is vital to these investigations and Police are asking anyone with any information to come forward."

When I got in this morning I tallied the numbers. I count 11 shootings (at least 13 victims) from Friday night to roughly 11 p.m. Sunday. Two dead (see the Baltimore's Sun's homicide map). A number of juveniles among the wounded, including a 16-year-old shot in a dispute at Pop Warner football game on North Franklintown Road.

Seven people were shot before the note came out and four more were shot after. The shootins, as listed by the Police Department's Facebook and Twitter pages:

Sunday
2400 Maisel Court, homicide, 11 p.m.
2100 Aiken St., male shot in leg, 11:43 a.m.

Saturday
1200 Franklintown Road, 16-year-old shot in leg, 9:41 p.m.
1000 Billie Holiday Court, male shot in side, 4:01 p.m.
2000 Rupp St., male shot in leg, 1:13 p.m.
1300 W. Baltimore St., 1:06 p.m.
300 S. Spring Court, shot in stomach, 1 p.m.
Harford and Lanvale, shot in thigh, 3 a.m.
Jasper and Druid Hill Ave., shot in leg, 1:45 a.m.
1600 Cypress St., shot in head and chest, homicide, 12:40 a.m.

Friday
3800 Sinclair Lane, three shot in legs, 9:52 p.m.

Posted by Peter Hermann at 7:21 AM | | Comments (4)
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also on Friday, Yellowwood/Yellowbrick

http://spotcrime.com/crime/6692115-6ec23d719240909cbdccfc5013621188

So what new startegies has the BCPD implementd to stem the violence? Oh yeah, a sleepover in Leakin Park...

There are too many homicides in the U.S.
http://socyberty.com/crime/dead-bodies-have-languished-for-14-years/

WAAH, WAH,POOR GUIFORD RESIDENTS.MY NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD..HAS SUFFERED 2 CARJACKS AND A ROBBERY AT GUN POINT,IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT GUN POINT TOO...NEVER SAW ANY EXTRA POLICE NEVER CAUGHT THE GUYS AND CERTAINLY NO NEWS HEADLINES....SINCE 2000 THE MURDER RATE HAS DOUBLED IN THE NORTHEAST...NO THANKS TO OMALLEY,CURRAN OR DIXON..MOST OF THAT INCREASE HAPPENED UNDER OMALLEY AND CURRAN....GOOD POLITICIANS FOR SURE ,SAD REPS FOR QUALITY OF LIFE. IN THE NORTHEAST,NOT JUST GUILFORD.

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About Peter Hermann
Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.

Coverage will focus on crime trends, problems in neighborhoods in the city and elsewhere, profiles of victims and police officers and try to offer readers a fresh perspective on one of the most vexing issues facing Baltimore and its future.



Contributing to this blog is Justin Fenton, who joined The Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, coverage of the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting. A special report looking into how city police handle rape cases led to sweeping reforms that changed the way sexual assaults are investigated in Baltimore. He was recognized as the best reporter in Baltimore by the City Paper in 2010 and by Baltimore Magazine in 2011.
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