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CRIME & SAFETY
Police investigate reported shooting in Hagerstown as 'targeted incident'
Hagerstown Police were investigating a shooting Thursday afternoon in the vicinity of East Washington Street and Cannon Avenue near downtown Hagerstown. Police said in a news release shortly after 3 p.m. that their preliminary investigation "shows that this was a targeted incident. ...
Hagerstown man pleads in case where 13 shots fired at occupied house in West End
A Hagerstown man was sentenced to five years earlier this week after pleading guilty to reckless endangerment and felony assault related to shots being fired at a house in the city's West End a year ago. No one in the home was injured, but the defendant, Leviticus Tyrone Ricks, now 19, was shot...
Hagerstown man sentenced in 2022 shooting outside Valley Mall
A Hagerstown man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in state prison for a shooting in the Valley Mall parking lot in June 2022 that injured a Fairplay man. Referring to a witness at the mall with his family at the time of the shooting, Washington County Circuit Court Judge Brett R. Wilson said others could have been injured from Matthew Steven Lookabaugh's actions that day.
Boyds Man Sentenced to 12 Years in Shooting
Sorie Mansaray, 20, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday after being convicted of attempted second-degree murder and first-degree assault. Mansaray, of Boyds, was convicted by a jury on April 18 in connection with a July 12, 2002 shooting in Silver Spring. He also must serve five years...
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