
Justin Fenton
Investigative Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
Investigative reporter at the @BaltimoreBanner. Author of WE OWN THIS CITY, which became HBO miniseries. Support local news
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2 days ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Darreonna Davis |Justin Fenton
Baltimore Police responded Wednesday afternoon to the second officer-involved shooting in West Baltimore in a week. Police said the shooting unfolded in the 2700 block of Mosher Street around 3 p.m., officials said. The shooting happened from just a week after Baltimore police officers fatally shot arabber Bilal “BJ” Abdullah 38 times after he fired three shots at them in the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Police have not confirmed if the shooting is fatal or not.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Justin Fenton
A federal judge in Maryland has rebuffed the U.S. Justice Department’s 11th-hour attempt to pursue the death penalty in a Maryland MS-13 gang case headed to trial this fall. In an opinion issued Wednesday evening, U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher said the federal prosecutorscould not “play ‘fast and loose’ with decisions involving life and death” in deciding last month to seek the death penalty in the case.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Darreonna Davis |Justin Fenton
Dozens of law enforcement officers are responding to a police-involved shooting that unfolded Tuesday in the Upton neighborhood. A helicopter flew over the neighborhood as more than a dozen Baltimore City cruisers lit up Pennsylvania Avenue. Some officers redirected traffic near West McMechen Street. Several bystanders filled the area near the metro by a T-Mobile store on Pennsylvania Avenue with their smartphones in hand, expressing anger at what they called an incident of police brutality.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Justin Fenton
More than nine years after a teacher’s aide was fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore in a case of mistaken identity, a 43-year-old man has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he orchestrated the shooting, court records show. Law enforcement authorities had long said they believed Matthew Hightower was behind the May 27, 2016, shooting of Latrina Ashburne, 41, a murder for which two men were previously convicted.
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3 weeks ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Justin Fenton
When Erica Vaughn learned she was pregnant with a boy, she knew she had to flee Baltimore. “I left out of fear. I left because I loved my son before he even arrived, and I was determined to give him a fighting chance at something different,” Vaughn said.
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RT @BaltimoreBanner: Grief pours in after longtime Baltimore arabber Bilal Abdullah fatally shot by police https://t.co/PPFwfIjV8W

RT @peteh98: @justin_fenton Only the third time in franchise history an 8-0 lead has been blown, so not a short memory. It is really that b…

One of the worst #Orioles losses I can remember. Yes I have a short memory.