Two cops shot on same street -- 10 years apart
Detectives Michael Rice and Michael J. Cowdery Jr. confronted gunmen on the same desolate stretch of Harford Road. Cowdery was killed in March 2001; Rice was shot this past Friday, and is slowly recovering at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
The street remains much the same now as it did a decade ago -- vacant storefronts and ragged shops along a dingy, dangerous street.
Police sent Rice and his colleagues there because of its notorious reputation, one that sadly hasn't changed since police sent Cowdery there, again because of its notorious reputation.
Crime Scenes takes a brief look at Harford Road then and now, amid another spasm of violence that claimed 18 casualties over the weekend and four more on Monday.
At left, The Sun's Kim Hairston captures a scene from Cowdery's funeral in 2001 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
Cowdery interrupted a drug deal and was fatally shot in the 2300 block of Harford Road on March 12, 2001. The gunman pumped a bullet into his leg, stood over his prone body and pumped another round into his head. Rice was shot and wounded in the 2300 block of Harford Road on Friday, when he approached a man riding a bicycle and holding a revolver.
Comments
So do gerry Gough know that Rice was a policeman?
Gentle suggestion: Be a journalist. Do your job. Your job is to get in a taxi and go to the hospital and ask him. If the police have arrested him then they will be on the hook for his medical bills. That would mean you can get to him. If the policeman at his door tells you that you can't go in then print that Gough has been arrested and that you can't access him for that reason. Then get back in the taxi and go back after your story prints and the police have made it clear to the guard that he is not under arrest. Sometimes good journalism takes persistence. Journalists of the past have set a high standard. Please do not let us, the public, down. We are counting on you to be a good journalist and not a bad journalist. I am not sure if I can make this any clearer for you.
Posted by: Cleanville Tziabatz | March 23, 2011 1:53 PM
Peter,
Thank you for remembering Michael Cowdery. I was in charge of the investigation into his murder 10 years ago. What a fine young man Michael was. He death should not be forgotten. Thanks again.
Posted by: Ernie Anderson | March 24, 2011 2:47 PM