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Two brothers charged in Towson double homicide Two Baltimore County men have been charged with first-degree murder in a double homicide in Towson last week, county police announced Wednesday. Norwood Thomas Johnson Jr., 29, and Nyghee Nicholas Johnson, 21, both of the first block of Paula Place in the Rossville area, were arrested Tuesday during a traffic stop, county police said. The suspects are brothers. A maintenance worker found the victims, Stanley B. Brunson Jr., 29, and Shameek Davone Joyner, 28, dead the morning of April 9 at the 20 Lambourne Apartments. Officer Jennifer Peach, a police spokeswoman, said the maintenance worker had previously been given permission to enter the apartment that day for a water- or pipe-related problem. Neither Brunson nor Joyner lived in the apartment, police said. Investigators say they had gone to the unit to meet with the Johnson brothers after the resident of the apartment set up a drug transaction. The Johnsons were being held without bail at the county jail and didn’t have attorneys listed in court records. Investigators said they don’t know what precipitated the killings. Peach said authorities are still investigating whether anyone else was in the apartment at the time. A third man also faces drug and gun charges stemming from the homicide investigation. Dwight Dakarai Jones, 42, of the 900 block of Elton Ave. in Dundalk is also being held without bail. Police said he was an associate of the Johnson brothers, and detectives searched his home for evidence related to the homicides. While there, police say, they found more than 100 pounds of marijuana and guns Jones was barred from possessing due to a previous felony conviction. Police said they did not find evidence related to the double homicide at Jones’ home. Jones did not have an attorney listed in court records.
—Alison Knezevich Three killed in shootings in West Baltimore Three men were killed in West Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, Baltimore police said, continuing a spate of violence from over the weekend. Police spokesman T.J. Smith said detectives were investigating whether the first two shootings were related. The department did not release the victims’ names Wednesday. Around 8:37 p.m., a 39-year-old man was shot in the 700 block of E. 43rd St. in Wilson Park, police said.
He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead soon after he arrived. A 32-year-old man was shot in the chest at about 1:50 p.m. in the 1000 block of W. Lombard St. in the Hollins Market neighborhood, police said. He was taken to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries.
About10 minutes after that shooting, police said, asecond man was shot multiple times, about a mile away, in the area of Payson Street and Penrose Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. Police said the victim, a 36-year-old man, died at the hospital. The Penrose neighborhood saw an increase in violence last month, including a triple shooting that injured two men and a woman in the 1900 block of Penrose Ave., the same area as the shooting on Wednesday. Increased violence has continued this week. Five people were killed over the weekend; more than a halfdozen others were injured in shootings. Jerod Watson, 24, was killed Sunday in the 3800 block of W. Franklin Ave., in Allendale, police said.
—Jessica Anderson Police: Man pulled gun during road rage incident A Millersville man faces assault and weapons charges after police say he pointed a handgun at a fellow motorist during a road rage incident in Glen Burnie on Sunday. Anne Arundel County police said a woman told officers at the Eastern District station on Sunday at 5:12 p.m. that a man pointed a gun at her after cutting her off while driving on Route 100. Police said she identified the car and gave investigators the license plate number. On Monday, officers went to the owner’s residence to find the car parked nearby. Police said they found a 9mm Ruger handgun inside the car and applied for an arrest warrant.
Timothy Patrick McGarrahan, 40, of Millersville turned himself in the next day and was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree assault as well as a number of weapons offenses, including a felony charge of owning a firearm with a felony conviction. He was also charged with theft, as police say the day officers found the gun in McGarrahan’s car, a Pasadena resident reported the gun was stolen from his home.
No attorney was listed for McGarrahan in online court records.
— Phil Davis, Baltimore Sun Media Group City man sentenced to 90 years for killing of boy, 13 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. City prosecutors announced Tuesday the prison sentence of Anthony Clark Jr., whose nickname is “Trouble.”
He received an additional 10 years suspended.
Clark was convicted of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and gun charges. Prosecutors said Clark was shooting at another man when he hit 13-year-old DiAndre Barnes. The boy was killed and the man was wounded June 11, 2016, on the 900 block of Pennsylvania Ave. Witnesses named “Trouble” as the shooter, police said. The killing took place during a crime spree that began two weeks earlier, prosecutors said.
—Tim Prudente
—Alison Knezevich Three killed in shootings in West Baltimore Three men were killed in West Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, Baltimore police said, continuing a spate of violence from over the weekend. Police spokesman T.J. Smith said detectives were investigating whether the first two shootings were related. The department did not release the victims’ names Wednesday. Around 8:37 p.m., a 39-year-old man was shot in the 700 block of E. 43rd St. in Wilson Park, police said.
He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead soon after he arrived. A 32-year-old man was shot in the chest at about 1:50 p.m. in the 1000 block of W. Lombard St. in the Hollins Market neighborhood, police said. He was taken to an area hospital, where he died from his injuries.
About10 minutes after that shooting, police said, asecond man was shot multiple times, about a mile away, in the area of Payson Street and Penrose Avenue in the Penrose neighborhood. Police said the victim, a 36-year-old man, died at the hospital. The Penrose neighborhood saw an increase in violence last month, including a triple shooting that injured two men and a woman in the 1900 block of Penrose Ave., the same area as the shooting on Wednesday. Increased violence has continued this week. Five people were killed over the weekend; more than a halfdozen others were injured in shootings. Jerod Watson, 24, was killed Sunday in the 3800 block of W. Franklin Ave., in Allendale, police said.
—Jessica Anderson Police: Man pulled gun during road rage incident A Millersville man faces assault and weapons charges after police say he pointed a handgun at a fellow motorist during a road rage incident in Glen Burnie on Sunday. Anne Arundel County police said a woman told officers at the Eastern District station on Sunday at 5:12 p.m. that a man pointed a gun at her after cutting her off while driving on Route 100. Police said she identified the car and gave investigators the license plate number. On Monday, officers went to the owner’s residence to find the car parked nearby. Police said they found a 9mm Ruger handgun inside the car and applied for an arrest warrant.
Timothy Patrick McGarrahan, 40, of Millersville turned himself in the next day and was arrested and charged with first- and second-degree assault as well as a number of weapons offenses, including a felony charge of owning a firearm with a felony conviction. He was also charged with theft, as police say the day officers found the gun in McGarrahan’s car, a Pasadena resident reported the gun was stolen from his home.
No attorney was listed for McGarrahan in online court records.
— Phil Davis, Baltimore Sun Media Group City man sentenced to 90 years for killing of boy, 13 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. City prosecutors announced Tuesday the prison sentence of Anthony Clark Jr., whose nickname is “Trouble.”
He received an additional 10 years suspended.
Clark was convicted of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and gun charges. Prosecutors said Clark was shooting at another man when he hit 13-year-old DiAndre Barnes. The boy was killed and the man was wounded June 11, 2016, on the 900 block of Pennsylvania Ave. Witnesses named “Trouble” as the shooter, police said. The killing took place during a crime spree that began two weeks earlier, prosecutors said.
—Tim Prudente
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