Police need help in finding killer of 12-year-old
The Sun's Don Markus reports:
Two weeks after a 12-year-old boy was fatally shot while watching an NBA playoff game on the porch of his Northeast Baltimore home near Clifton Park, police are pleading for help finding the killer, who they believes may live near the victim.
While police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said that the May 24 shooting of Sean Johnson and his death two days later “galvanized the city,” the spokesman noted, “We are running out of witnesses and evidence to further fuel our efforts.”
Speaking during a news conference at Southern District station on Wednesday, Guglielmi added, “We’re asking, we’re begging, we’re pleading for anyone with any information in that case to contact us.”
Guglielmi said that police are working “round the clock” to find those responsible.
Johnson and three others were shot as they sat on the porch watching the game on the porch of the home in the 1700 block of Cliftview Ave. Shawnta Little said her son was shot twice in the head and once in the neck and leg. A bullet lodged in his spine. He died two days after the shooting. The three other teens were slightly injured.
Guglielmi said that “we have a direction that we’re going in, and that we’re looking at, I don’t want to say too much to compromise the case. We need some additional evidence to further our progress, additional witness testimony for corroboration.”
Police believe that the shooter — or shooters — live in Baltimore, perhaps even in the Lake Clifton neighborhood where the shooting occurred.
“As the police commissioner said, ‘The individuals did not come in from California, they did not drive down from New York to commit this murder’,” Guglielmi said . “These are individuals that are in that neighborhood. We know this. The community knows this, and we really need to do some justice for Sean here to find the individuals responsible for his death.”








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They won't find his killer.
The "stop snitching" mentality will keep crimes occurring with ever greater frequency. The people who live amongst these gangs and criminals will never prosper because of it.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 8, 2011 6:17 PM