Man, aunt jumped from window to escape robbery
A man and a woman have been indicted on charges that they pistol whipped and robbed a man and his aunt, who jumped from a second story window of their Northeast Baltimore home to escape.
Donnell Mackey, 29, of the 1000 block of N. Milton St., and Antoinette Brown, 19, of the 2600 block of Garrison Blvd., face charges of armed robbery, assault and burglary, according to the indictment, which was filed on July 15.
Mackey has been indicted 12 previous times, according to court records.
According to charging documents, on June 1, Christopher Harper was in the basement of his home in the 3000 block of Iona Terrace, in the Arcadia neighborhood, when he heard his aunt, Deshawn Penn, yelling for him to come upstairs.
When Harper got upstairs, he saw two men and a woman pointing guns at him. They ordered him upstairs into his aunt's room, where they demanded money and began pistol whipping them, records show.
One of the attackers picked up a 32-inch TV and smashed it over Harper's head, records show. Police say the suspects rifled through the bedroom, taking two passports, a .45 caliber handgun, $600 in cash and an iPhone.
As the attackers were ransacking the room, Harper and then Penn jumped out of the second-story bedroom window, according to court papers. Penn shattered her right ankle, broke her right leg, and sprained her left ankle, and required three staples on her head from the gun attack. Harper required 10 stitches above his right eyelid.
Records show the suspects were picked out of a lineup. Mackey was charged June 3 and arrested June 11, and has been ordered held without bail. Court records show he has a long list of prior charges, including handgun charges that were dropped by prosecutors in 2008 and an attempted murder conviction from 2004 that resulted in a sentence of 15 years in prison, with all but three years suspended.
Comments
When is Baltimore going to stop letting so many people who definitely belong in jail for as long as they live--let go time and time again only to go back out on our streets and be allowed to continuously victimize those of us who work hard, pay our bills and struggle to stay one step ahead?
Our Mayor, Prosecutors and lawmakers going to put an end to this, how can you allow someone to be indicted those many times and then make deals so that not only does he do minimum to no time, he is then allowed to roam free. At the least we should have a law for habitual criminals to be on a monitoring system if we must let them out. We have a leash law in just about every state for our dogs, vicious or not. Those going out here continuously doing these things also need to be leased. They are far worse than any pit bull.
Posted by: calamity | July 28, 2011 6:05 PM