Teen-aged murder suspect not linked to gang, police say
Baltimore police said this morning that the 14-year-old girl charged with killing a man in a robbery earlier this month is not a member of a gang. Authorities had initially believed the killing was linked to a gang initiation.
But department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told reporters at a news conference that the motive in the killing of Jose Rodolfo Gonzalez-Coreas is robbery. Police describe a stunning sequence of events, saying the suspect opened fire when one of the victims laughed at her as she pointed the gun at him.
"They didn't take her seriously because of her age," Guglielmi said. Police arrested and charged Arteesha Holt (seen above) with first-degree murder and several other crimes. They also charged her 18-year-old brother, Shawn Palmer (in the photo above), with being an accomplice to murder for allegedly helping her escape from the neighborhood and by taking the silver .32 caliber revolver off her hands.
Guglielmi described the shooting as heinous. "It speaks to the guns that are out there and the frustrations we in law enforcement have at trying to deal with all this."
The victims in his case were Latinos, two of several who have been attacked in recent weeks in Southeast Baltimore. One of the latest attacks was committed, police say, by a mentally disturbed man who told detectives he hated Mexicans. Guglielmi said the killing involving the girl was during a robbery and not a hate crime.
Categories: Breaking news, Confronting crime, Courts and the justice system, East Baltimore
Comments
Are people really more concerned about Officer Rivieri than they are about a child murderer? That scares me.
Posted by: Dana LaRocca | August 25, 2010 2:56 PM
I hope jessamy doesn't slap them on the wrist like she's known for. I say a public hanging is in order. back with capital punishment.
I'm sick of these lil hoods infecting our city streets, destroying once glorious neighorhoods and keeping our hard working citizens in fear.
I speak the truth.
Posted by: operationstreetcleaner | August 25, 2010 5:16 PM
Simple: Death Penalty !!
Her Brother life in prison
If you are or help a criminal you die or go to jail
Monster are monster.. they never change
Posted by: steve | August 25, 2010 9:09 PM
Give her life in prison.
The prison system should be “FORCED” manual labor with just the bare minimum to survive, solitary confinement conditions should be used if you refuse to work or improve yourself to be a better citizen.
Lights, a bed and an exercise yard should be privilege. The “3 Hots and a Cot” mentality should be replaced with “Create Strife and lose my Life”.
If prison conditions were fitting to the crimes committed, you would find our violent offenders to scared to even think about repeating and having to return.
But why not kill, rape, rob, rinse, lather and repeat if all that’s going to happen to you is you get a is a slap on the wrist and the opportunity to take timeout from the hardships and responsibilities of real life.
Posted by: Tiredoftakingcareoftheungrateful | August 26, 2010 11:42 AM
death penalty.....thats the only reasonable punishment since she thinks a life is so invalueable we should take hers. People like her and all these other wanna be hoods and gangsters need to be taken care of. They steadily populate nice areas of towns and citys and turn them into dumps. They care about nothing or no one.They have no respect for law or anything else. They are a nusence to society. But the goverment wont do anything about that because that would be unfair and polotically incorrect.
Posted by: stephen | September 1, 2010 11:04 AM
The little girl needs to do life in prison, she clearly needs help and is a danger to society.
The brother however, I dont think he deserves life just for tryna hide a gun! Come on now, they give people less for actually pulling the trigger now adays. He needs jail time, but a life sentence is ridiculous.
Posted by: Tee | September 7, 2010 9:50 PM
You people should be ashamed of your self give a 14 year old the death penalty are you serious. Your tired of these little hoods infecting our city ? ! Wow yes she deserves time in prison y'all have no idea if the child is mentally ill do you?!!! All of your post are ignorant and sound noneducational. I bet your all older than 18 that's a shame. Yes she committed an unthinkable crime and her brother defended the one he loved just as you would your loved ones correct? God I hope you would your post are irrational and you obviously did not think about your comments before you wrote them God doesn't like ugly ......
Posted by: chelsea | September 17, 2010 8:28 PM