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 Tuesday, Apr 17 Within weeks of taking over the Baltimore Police Department in January, Commissioner Darryl De Sousa had promised investigations or reviews into a slate of pressing issues. Months later, none of the investigations has been resolved, according to a police spokesman. |
| Nearly 12 years ago, Roxanne Amick left the house she shared with her husband in Perry Hall and went shopping. Two days later her body was found in a wooded area about four miles away. She had been killed by what an autopsy determined was blunt-force trauma. |
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| Police surrounded a house on East Lanvale Street near Barclay Street in Greenmount West on Monday night. |
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| A 27-year-old man from Southwest Baltimore was sentenced last week to 90 years in prison for opening fire on a crowd and mistakenly killing a child in June 2016, prosecutors said. |
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| “It’s 100 percent unacceptable,” Commissioner Darryl De Sousa said Monday of Pinky Louise Ruffin’s killing, after he walked the cherry blossom-lined 3900 block of W. Mulberry St. in Allendale where she lived and was shot. |
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| Baltimore has made incremental progress reforming its police department under its year-old consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, city officials and their federal overseers agreed at the first public court hearing since the deal was inked last spring. |
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| The independent panel created to review the Baltimore Police Department’s investigation into the unsolved November killing of Det. Sean Suiter will include seven law enforcement analysts and policing experts, including two retired Baltimore homicide detectives, police confirmed Thursday. |
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| A city jury was deliberating charges against a 21-year-old Baltimore man arrested for having a gun by Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa last fall. |
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