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September 7, 2010

Stolen car hits pedestrian

UPDATE, 11:05 a.m.: At the scene, the intersection of West North and North Fulton avenues, a silver sedan was heavily damaged and a bike with a milk crate lay twisted on the median, as a pile of newspapers were pushed around the intersection by the wind. Witnesses said the injured man appeared to be in his 50s and was taken away in an ambulance; the driver of the stolen vehicle was said to be a woman. Police could not immediately confirm those details.

Jeanelle Hinton, 36, said she was sitting in her car as her cousin got a bottled water from a nearby convenience store, when suddenly the Foxtrot police helicopter swooped down and a number of vehicles converged at the intersection. 

"When they blocked the car in, I heard all this crashing and noises," she said of the several cars that were damaged. "The guy was on the ground, and his body was twisted. It was like something out of a movie."

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Baltimore police just sent out a Twitter alert saying a stolen car jumped a median strip and hit a pedestrian at West North and Fulton avenues in West Baltimore. There are no other details available, including the condition of the man who was hit.

It's also unclear whether police were chasing or following the stolen car at the time. We'll provide updates as the morning progresses.

Posted by Peter Hermann at 9:59 AM | | Comments (1)
Categories: Breaking news, West Baltimore
        

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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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