I'm sure this is just paranoia on my part . . . but I wonder if this fellow could be connected to the string of attacks happening around Hampden in 2005, including the "mysterious death" of Nick Marsalek?

Sounds like it could match up, timing wise. I'm probably just seeing what I want to though.

A search of Bobby Wisner's previous criminal record reveals a one man crime wave. He has been found guilty of various crimes in the past, he should have never been let out into society.

Police did not respond and find him, neighbors did. And neighbors helped him until the ambulance arrived. These good people, not the police, were on the scene.

check out the murderer's myspace page http://www.myspace.com/485671114
so sad the cycle of violence will likely continue with his 3 kids.

Wait, how long did the police take to show up? And how long did the ambulance take?

So the white trash knew the victim, but what was the motive?

It's sad to see same patterns constantly repeated in one declining neighborhood after another. I abandoned Hampden 10 years ago to the trendsters, hipsters and druggies who are always precursors to ghetto-ization. This pattern never varies. Be it Hollins Market, Boulton Hill, Mount Vernon.

In 2020 Hampden will look like the visibly drug, violence and poverty blasted crime corridor along North Charles Street Stretching all the way from North Avenue to 25th Street from Howard to Green Mount.

Section 8 vouchers, SSI checks and other assorted handouts that fuel a drug and violence addicted urban leisure class will always overpower and chase out wholesome but puny private sector elements.

You have it all figured out, don't you, Miss Bobbipins? Hampden doesn't look like it's going anywhere but up to me. The hillbillies will get priced out, the hipsters will get replaced by the middle class after they've made it cool to be there, and there you will have a success story! Bolton Hill and Mount Vernon are nice too, and over the last 20 or so years have done nothing but improve.

@Miss Bobbipin: Sorry, but Hampden is in great shape for the most part. It was a hole full of racists and plenty of druggies and drunks 20 years ago. At least now there are people who want to live there. Small business owners, young families, students, artists, etc. These are the "trendsters and hipsters" you so snidely write off. Drug abuse will be anywhere that people are poor and hopeless. If you have things to do that make you love your life, then why would you want to spend your time in a haze escaping from it? It's not the 20- and 30-somethings who like to stop at Holy Frijoles for a beer or go to Fraziers to see a band that are the problem. Look at this dude's Myspace. He was classicworking class Hampden white dude who likes (surprise!) "country and rap". Hardly a hipster or yuppie. Just a plain sheet metal worker with a history of violence.

Sometimes people are just nuts. No need to tie everything to your conspiracy theories about how social safety nets are the root of all evil. You think people will rob you for crack money on SSI? See how nice and kind those people are when they have nothing at all and need to do whatever they can to stay alive.

I used to know a cabbie who went by "Sandy," I think he's a bit older, but this certainly has me worried. Do you have a description of the victim?

Only description I have is from an arrest in the 1990s for failing to obtain a license for his cab. In that case, he is described as white, 6'2, 210. And, obviously, he was an older man. -JF

Another lame ass judge who allows a criminal like this to receive a 10 year sentence and suspend 7 years. Maybe if justice was meted out and this thug was in jail for 10 years, the 73 year old man walking home could have done so without paying for it with his life. It is a shame that the biggest encouragement that would be thugs and other criminals receive is from judges who let it be known the absence of consequences for crimes is a given.

My brother-in-law just called me to tell me about Sandy. I am shocked and horrified by his brutal death. Jack Sandy was a good friend to me and to hundreds of others in Baltimore. He was a true Baltimore character in the best possible sense: wise, kind,
generous, and very, very funny. I am not interested in whether his murderer was a "hipster", a "junkie", a "yuppie" or a "white trash hillbilly", I just want his sorry ass fried NOW!
"Jack Sandy, Cabdriver" you are missed.

i left hampden years ago to go in the navy during vietnam. i lived up the street from a jimmy wisner who would be about 66 yrs old now, is this guy who murdered the poor cabbie his so? does anybody know? thanks. bh

How come the off duty cop who shot an unarmed man 12 times and this thug never met each other? The Fates are truly cruel.

I always told that boy he was going to end up in jail for murder or in the morgue. Such a sad waste.

Previous poster: this was the great nephew of Jimmy Wisner. He passed away in the late 90's, I believe.

Hampden has never been all that great from the beginning . I remember the racial tension they used to have in the 70s and early 80's where the kids were scared to death to go to Robert Poole then after the mid 80's drug overwhelmed them and they went from drunks and glue sniffers to hardcore drug addicts. The park wyman park was known as the bowl and the poor kids from Hampden and Remington would prostitute themselves for food and drug money around the park. When you speak of Hampden don't act suprise that this violence is going on.

M. Sandy was my neighbor. He was a sweet old harmless man. Why anyone would target him is beyond me. He wasn't wealthy. There are good people here, Mr. Sandy was one.

If this alleged attacker actually did, it he's an example of what was bad about Hampden back in the "good ol' days" I miss. If the "trendsters" or "hipsters" replace violent cretins like him they're doing Hampden a favor.

This just in from Nixle:

The Baltimore Police Department’s Warrant Apprehension Task Force detectives are looking for Gary Lathem (M/W/27) for the murder of a 73 year-old John Sandy.
http://local.nixle.com/alert/3695229/

does this mean there are two suspects?

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCREN: BEFORE YOU TALK ABOUT BOBBY WISNER. YOU SHOULD NO ALL OF FACTS ABOUT THE CASE. AND YOU DONT. BOBBY IS A YOUNG MAN THAT WAS TRYING TO GET HIS LIFE TOGATHER. IF YOU DONT NO HIM. YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE SUCH STUFF ABOUT HIM. BOBBY IS A VERY GOOD PERSON THAT TRIP'ED IN HIS LIFE, WE ALL DO THAT SOME TIME'S. THAT'S WAY WE ARE HUMAN. BUT TO WRITE SUCH STUFF AND TO SAY THAT HE DID THE CRIME IS WRONG. ALL OF YOU SHOULD NO BEFORE YOU SAY HE DID IT. I AM NOT SAYING WHAT HAPPEN WAS RIGHT, BUT WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT BOBBY DID NOT DO THIS CRIME. SO TO ALL OF THE PEPOLE WHO HAD BAD THING'S TO SAY ABOUT BOBBY YOU NEED TO CLOSE YOUR TRAP'S, THAT'S WAY WE HAVE COURT'S AND NOT PEPOLE LIKE ALL OF YOU.

Dear Eddie,
You should know how to spell KNOW, for anyone to take you seriously.

I agree with Eddie. Besides people shouldn't be judging people by what they do or didn't do especially if you don't know them. He didn't commit the crime. So please stop writing rude and obnoxious comments.