A murder, other crime news
The latest Baltimore slaying occurred Thursday night when a 25-year-old man was gunned down while walking along Belair Road near Clifton Park. Cops tell me he was with two other men when one of them took out a gun and shot him in the head and body. For a comprehensive look at city slayings, go to our homicide map.
Other than that, it's been a slow Friday, and let's hope it stays that way.
In some other crime news, we report on discipline at Cheltenham Youth Center in Prince George's County, where last month a teacher from Belair was found dead and cops are investigating a 13-year-old detainee in her murder.
State officials were quiet on details of the discipline -- refusing to say whether the two staffers fired, two other suspended and one top administrator demoted -- were directly responsible in any way for the teacher's death. I did reach the superintendent, who we learned was the "top administrator demoted -- and found her in New Orleans. She told me she was "clueless" about the investigation.
And one more bit of good news on the crime front:
Our education writer Liz Bowie reports:
The Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore has received a $3.4 million federal grant to support programs aimed at reducing violence at the school.
The federal money is being given nationally by the U.S. Labor Department to six high schools that were named "persistently dangerous" under the No Child Left Behind Act. The label was applied by states to the schools in their areas that had the highest number of suspensions.
In the past two years, 2.5 percent of the high school's students have been removed or suspended for a serious offense, including having weapons or being violent, according to Principal Sylvia Hall.
Categories: Breaking news, Confronting crime, Northeast Baltimore
Comments
Hmmm... she's "clueless" guess that goes without saying.
Posted by: ruth | March 19, 2010 8:21 AM