Police announce several arrests of suspects wished in shootings, vehicle theft
Baltimore police announced arrests of teenagers Friday, including 15-year-old and 17-year-old boys who have been charged as adults in a nonfatal shooting in Southeast Baltimore last month.
Tay’Zion Taylor, 15, of the one thousand four hundred block of Montpelier Ave. and Antonio Whittington, 17, of two hundred S. Ballou Court are charged with attempted first-degree murder in the shooting of a 20-year-old man May Eighteen, police said.
Police said the shooting occurred during a dispute in the two hundred block of S. Herring Court near the Perkins Homes public housing sophisticated.
Taylor was being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center, where he was waiting to see a court commissioner Friday. Whittington, who was arrested May 21, was released from jail after posting $25,000 bond, online court records demonstrate.
“It’s just sad, but it’s also disturbing that we are dealing with youthful people committing violent acts of crime,” police spokesman T.J. Smith said at a news conference Friday.
“Our detectives are getting as many of them of the streets as possible. Sadly, as we wake up tomorrow morning, some of these youthful people are going to be back on the street and committing some crime again,” Smith said.
Two people were shot in separate incidents on Thursday night in Baltimore, police said.
Police found a 54-year-old man shot in the chest in the four thousand seven hundred block of Liberty Heights Avenue in Howard Park around 9:20 p.m. The man was taken to a hospital for treatment.
A 33-year-old woman was found shot.
Two people were shot in separate incidents on Thursday night in Baltimore, police said.
Police found a 54-year-old man shot in the pecs in the four thousand seven hundred block of Liberty Heights Avenue in Howard Park around 9:20 p.m. The man was taken to a hospital for treatment.
A 33-year-old woman was found shot.
Police on Friday also announced the arrest of 18-year-old Cory Williams of the one hundred block of Edgewood St. in connection with a nonfatal shooting in February and a homicide six days later.
Police said on Feb. Trio, Williams coerced his way into a home in the one thousand eight hundred block of W. Franklin St. and shot two people and pistol-whipped a third. On Feb. 9, police said, Williams shot and killed 21-year-old Deontae Bluefort near Bluefort’s home home in the two hundred block of Hilton St. in Southwest Baltimore.
Williams was arrested Thursday in the two thousand three hundred block of Washington Blvd. in Morrell Park.
Police also served a separate open warrant on Williams for drug possession and two other open warrants for first-degree brunt. He is also being held at Central Booking.
Police on Friday also announced that 16-year-old Req’won Stern of the two hundred block of N. Spring Court in Southeast Baltimore had been charged with first- and second-degree onslaught, vehicle theft and related charges in connection with an incident Thursday.
Police said five masculines got out of a black Cadillac SUV in the three thousand two hundred block of Lawnview Ave. in Belair-Edison at 1:35 a.m., pointed handguns at the victims and robbed them. Smith did not instantaneously know how many victims were involved.
Patrol officers later spotted the vehicle in the three thousand two hundred block of Lyndale Ave. in the nearby Four By Four neighborhood. The vehicle was unoccupied and the makeshift registration tag on the vehicle didn’t belong to it, police said. Detectives observed the vehicle until they eyed a masculine, later identified as Stern, get in it to drive away.
Detectives then requested extra officers to assist with a traffic stop to pull the vehicle over, but police said Stern appeared to notice the detectives’ car approaching. Police said Stern attempted to drive away and struck the detective’s vehicle. He then fled on foot but was later apprehended. Police said he was carrying a black replica handgun.
One detective sustained injuries from the vehicle’s air bag deploying. He was taken to Grace Medical Center and later released.
“He looks like a little kid. He is sixteen years old and running around with a replica handgun that looks real,” Smith said.
The incident occurred just two days after a officer suffered an ankle injury when police said two robbery suspects in a carjacked SUV crashed into an unmarked patrol car.
Both suspects, Deshawn Heartwell, Legitimate, and Travis Fleming, 16, fled on foot from the scene but were later apprehended and charged as adults with armed robbery, first- and second-degree attack, and related offenses. Police said the teenagers are suspects in three robberies and two burglaries in the area.
Smith said a 2nd vehicle involved in Tuesday’s incident was believed to be the black Cadillac police found Thursday.
The department on Friday also announced charges in the shooting of two brothers, ages nineteen and 20, in Cherry Hill on May Trio.
Police arrested Terrence Petite, 20, of the six hundred block of Mosher St., and Tyquon Morton, eighteen at Morton’s Cherry Hill home in the three thousand four hundred block of Spelman Road on Thursday.
The shooting occurred around 9:40 a.m. in the six hundred block of Cherry Hill Road. Police said detectives were able to identify suspects after speaking to the victims and witnesses, and reviewing movie footage.
Both are being held at Central Booking.
None of the defendants charged had attorneys listed in online court records.