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Critic who lost out on police job after Mosby clash will keep old post in AG’s office
Michelle Wilson, an attorney who was hired to serve as a Baltimore Police Department chief until Commissioner Michael Harrison abruptly reversed his decision last month, will keep her old job at the Maryland attorney general’s office. Wilson was one of two new hires announced by Harrison on May 21 as part of Harrison’s effort to assemble his executive staff. But two days later, the department announced Wilson would not be overseeing the public integrity bureau, which includes the internal affairs unit that investigates officer misconduct. The decision followed publicity connected to Wilson’s allegations that Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was not truthful when testifying in a civil lawsuit. Wilson made the allegations first in a Facebook post and also in a sworn statement in the lawsuit. The animosity did not cost Wilson her old post. She will stay at the Maryland attorney general’s office representing the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, spokeswoman Raquel Coombs said in an email on Tuesday. The police department has not said why Wilson was no longer taking the chief position, but she was seen as a controversial choice because she publicly questioned Mosby’s veracity. The clash could have been especially awkward since Wilson would have been in charge of investigating wayward police officers that ultimately could have been charged by Mosby’s prosecutors.
Ellicott City men played with a handgun before
fatal shooting, police say
A 20-year-old man charged with killing his friend in Ellicott City Saturday night was “playing around” with a handgun and smoking marijuana with friends in a church parking lot before the shooting, according to charging documents. Jacob Robert Mauer, 20, of Haycarriage Court in Ellicott City, was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Bethel Baptist Church at 4261 Montgomery Road around 10 p.m. Saturday, police wrote. Rane Nikolas Dellinger, 20, of Autumn Hill Drive in Ellicott City, was arrested Monday after fleeing to North Carolina, according to police. He is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and the use of a handgun in a crime of violence, according to charging documents. Police wrote that the three men went to the church parking lot to smoke marijuana and then “the group began playing around,” with the handgun. Dellinger sat in the passenger seat and “was holding the firearm which was pointed at Jacob Mauer” in the driver’s seat, police wrote. “At that time, the gun discharged, striking Jacob on the right side of the head.” Dellinger then “gathered up the drugs in the vehicle and fled the scene,” police wrote. The other person, who was sitting in the back seat, called 911, according to police. That person’s name has not been released. Dellinger remains in North Carolina awaiting extradition to Maryland.
Boy robbed at gunpoint
at Meade Middle School parking lot, police say
Police say a boy was robbed at gunpoint at the entrance to the Meade Middle School parking lot Monday evening. Anne Arundel County police officers responded around 6 p.m. Monday for a robbery at the entrance of the school’s parking lot at 1103 26th Street, the department said in a release. The victim, described as a male juvenile, told officers he was walking in the area when two people approached him, and one asked to borrow the boy’s phone to make a call, the release said. The boy handed over his phone and one of the people yelled, “Do you have any money?” and struck him with their hands, police said. One person continued to assault the boy, police said. The second person pulled out a handgun, according to the release. The victim ran away and called for help, police said. Meade Middle School dismisses at 3 p.m., said Bob Mosier, Anne Arundel County schools spokesman. The school system’s Office of School Security is working with police, he said. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Western District Detectives at 410-222-6155 or, if they wish to remain anonymous, the Tip Line at 410-222-4700.
Howard County elementary principal addresses ‘threatening statement’ made between students
An Ellicott City elementary school principal sent an email Monday night to the school’s community addressing “a threatening statement” that was made by one student to another while working on a class assignment. Lisa Booth, principal of Hollifield Station Elementary, said in the email that during a class period Monday “two students became upset with each other … (and) the situation escalated beyond name calling and a threatening statement was made.” A male fifth grade student threatened a female fifth grader, according to Mark Muffoletto, an Ellicott City defense attorney. Muffoletto said it was his daughter who was threatened. The student called her a derogatory name and “threatened to shoot her with a Glock,” Muffoletto said. Muffoletto said he was told by the school that the male student would “have no more contact for the day” with his daughter.
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