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Woman Dies After Tragic Car Accident In Anne Arundel County
FRIENDSHIP, Md. – A single-vehicle accident on the night of July 14, 2024, claimed the life of a District Heights woman and seriously injured a man. Emergency personnel responded to a crash on Friendship Road near Fairhaven Road at approximately 9:30 p.m. Upon investigation, it was revealed that a 2020 Nissan Versa was traveling at high speed when the driver failed to handle a left-hand curve. The vehicle veered off the road, ascended an embankment, struck multiple trees, and overturned in a ditch with two occupants injured.
Pilot killed in small plane crash in Easton identified
EASTON, Md. — Emergency rescue crews responded to the area of the Tred Avon River in Easton for a small plane crash Tuesday morning. The pilot, identified as 56-year-old Robert Eugene Merlini from Annapolis, has since died. Merlini was the only person onboard when the small plane crashed in the Tred Avon River.
Donald Trump campaign rally shooting prompts reactions from Baltimore residents
BALTIMORE -- Baltimore residents are still in shock and reacting following former President Donald Trump's attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania Saturday evening. Confused, disappointed and in complete disbelief: words echoing around Baltimore to describe how a lot of people are feeling. Trump was grazed in the ear by a bullet. One rally attendee, identified as identified as Corey Comperatore, 50, of Sarver, Pa., died, while two others were injured.Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, the gunman, was killed by the Secret Service.Many residents and neighbors declined to share their full name but did express their thoughts about what happened."I don't want anything...
Details Released: Two Arrested In Connection To Violent Robbery And Murder In Prince George’s County
SUITLAND, Md. – In a significant development, Akiya Gabrielle Bagley and Walter Jayvon Plummer were arrested following a violent robbery and shooting incident that took place on June 27, 2024, in Suitland, Prince George’s County, Maryland. The Prince George’s County Police Department responded to a distress call at...
Police Searching For Burglary Suspects Heading From Anne Arundel County To Bowie (Developing)
According to investigators, two suspects fled in a vehicle following a burglary near Route 450 and headed into Bowie, where they got out and took off on foot. Police say that they were on foot in Prince George's County off Route 197/Bowie Road. One suspect was described as a Black...
Stolen cars, drugs, and guns found at Laurel Motel 6; four suspects arrested
Laurel (WBFF) — Four people were arrested last Thursday after police found them inside a Motel 6 in Laurel with drugs and weapons. Police say on July 11 around 9:00 p.m., officers found a stolen 2016 Honda Accord in the parking lot of the Motel 6 located at 3510 Old Annapolis Road in Laurel.
Maryland Woman Arrested in Glen Burnie Bank Robbery After Alleged Hold-Up
A bank robbery at the PNC Bank in Glen Burnie resulted in the swift arrest of a 20-year-old Maryland woman. The incident occurred on July 12, 2024, at approximately 12:40 p.m., when officers responded to a commercial hold-up alarm at the bank located at 7301 Ritchie Highway. According to the...
BPD: Man faces several charges after allegedly breaking into Bowie home, shooting during ‘hallucination’
BOWIE, Md. (DC News Now) — The Bowie Police Department (BPD) said a man is facing several charges after he allegedly broke into a home through a window and fired several rounds. Police said officers arrested Michael Drew Hornfeck and charged him with ten charges, including two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree […]
Heartbreak in Baltimore: Man Dies After Sedation, Mother Demands Answers
Trea Ellinger reassured his worried mother that everything was alright when he left a drug rehab center in Baltimore last summer. He was ready to see his lover and had taken his meds. He was dead by the next afternoon, not from the violence his mother thought he would encounter...
‘No idea he wouldn't come back': Father mourns man killed at vigil for Wise HS football alumni
The father of a man killed at a vigil Friday evening says his son had spent the week mourning three friends who died in a crash. Shahid Iman Omar Jr., 24, was among the hundreds of people in attendance Friday at Dr. Henry Wise Jr. High School in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to honor the lives of Minnesota Vikings rookie Khyree Jackson, Isaiah Hazel and Anthony Lytton, Jr., who won a state championship together at Wise.
DC police identify both people who died in fiery crash after police chase
WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — D.C. police identified the second person who died in a crash following a police chase in the beginning of July. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) said that 17-year-old Dashawn Harris of Southeast, D.C., and 18-year-old Zagory Leo Hill of District Heights, Md. died at the scene of a fiery crash […]
Man charged in Brooklyn Day mass shooting stabbed multiple times in Baltimore jail
A man who’s charged in the mass shooting that killed two people and wounded 28 others at the Brooklyn Homes housing project in Baltimore was stabbed in jail, his attorney said on Monday, while arguing for a judge to release him on home detention. Assistant Public Defender Amanda Savage, Tristan Jackson’s attorney, said her client […]
1 Dead, 1 Injured In Shooting Outside Wise High School Following Khyree Jackson Vigil
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. — Tragedy struck again at Wise High School on Friday night when a man was killed and a woman injured in a shooting following a candlelight vigil. The event was held to honor Vikings rookie Khyree Jackson and his former teammates, Isaiah Hazel and Anthony “AJ” Lytton Jr., who died in a car accident.
Nicholas Norris Charged With Attempted Murder For Shooting
Suitland resident Nicholas Norris is facing charges following a weeklong probe into a reported shooting in Camp Springs on July 5, authorities announced. Officers were called to a business shortly before 6:30 a.m. on the morning of the shooting in the 5100 block of Auth Road, where a man advised investigators that a man shot at him while attempting to steal an item.
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