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November 20, 2009

Busy crime day ..

While we're awaiting a verdict in the mayor's trial, let's not forget that there' s still penty of crime going on out there.

A brief update:

Police have identified the woman found killed in a vacant lot in East Baltimore, a slaying that occurred in midst of a manhunt for at least two suspected rapists.

A Baltimore police sergeant's son was arrested after authorities said they found a half-pound of marijuana inside a house in which both he and the officer lived in East Baltimore.

A woman was fatally shot Thursday night after stepping outside a funeral home she had been visiting to pay respects to her boyfriend, who had been shot and killed a week earlier. Justin Fenton took the picture above of a bullet hole in the door of the funeral home.

City police say they probably thwarted a killing Wednesday night when they rescued a teenager who had been aducted and held in an abandon rowhouse for ransome.

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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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