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Officers fire shots during wild chase in city Baltimore police are searching for a man who was the target of a wild chase Saturday night during which officers fired shots, two cars were damaged, and an officer and two civilians were injured.
Police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said the incident began when officers tried to stop a Honda with dark-tinted windows about 6:20 p.m. in the 3700 block of Edmondson Ave. in West Baltimore. Monroe said the vehicle tried to elude officers, who requested help from the Foxtrot helicopter unit. The Honda struck a car at Windsor Mill Road and Gwynns Falls Parkway. The driver continued and struck another vehicle while driving the wrong way down Woodridge Road, where he bailed out and entered the car of an apparent accomplice, Monroe said. “He had a friend waiting in the wings to whisk him away, and that friend tried to run over our officers,”
Monroe said, adding that one officer was injured.
She said that was when officers fired at the second car. The two drove crashed into a third car on Wildwood Parkway, where the o suspects got out of the car and ran. The first suspect eluded police, but his accomplice, a 19-year-old, was arrested, Monroe said. Police said two civilians involved in the accidents and the officer were being examined but did not appear to suffer serious injuries.
—Brittany Britto 16-year-old charged in assault of city official A16-year-old has been charged as an adult in the assault and robbery of an assistant city health commissioner in downtown Baltimore earlier this month, Baltimore police said. Devonte Parker of the 4000 block of Annellen Road was charged with robbery, first- and second-degree assault, police said. Parker was one of four teens involved in the June 9 attack, which took place about1p.m. near Baltimore and Commerce streets. Greg Sileo —who said he does not remember the incident — suffered multiple facial fractures, swelling and bruising as a result of the attack. Parker turned himself in after someone recognized him in a surveillance video released by police, authorities said. Detectives are still searching for three other suspects. Sileo oversees various anti-violence programs at the Health Department.
—Michael Brice-Saddler City’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ still on the run Cortez Wall, an 18-year-old wanted for murder, is still on the run, a month after Baltimore police dubbed him “Public Enemy No.1.” It is the longest period of time a person given the title has remained at large since the department first started using it in the summer of 2013. Wall was given the designation May 17, and remained on the run into the weekend, confirmed Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. Wall, of the 5600 block of Plymouth Road in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood, is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting May 6 of 28-year-old Channon Simpkins in the 300 block of Whitridge Ave. in the Harwood neighborhood, police said.
—Kevin Rector Maryland man arrested in child kidnapping Federal agents have arrested a Maryland man who was accused of international parental kidnapping, ending a six-year saga. FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested Faical Chebbi of Accokeek on Wednesday after he landed at Dulles International Airport, prosecutors said. Chebbi, who made an initial appearance in court Thursday, was accused of taking his two children to Tunisia in 2011. The case highlighted the problem of international child abductions, where one parent takes a child to a country where U.S. custody orders are ignored. Federal prosecutors said he faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
—John Fritze
Police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said the incident began when officers tried to stop a Honda with dark-tinted windows about 6:20 p.m. in the 3700 block of Edmondson Ave. in West Baltimore. Monroe said the vehicle tried to elude officers, who requested help from the Foxtrot helicopter unit. The Honda struck a car at Windsor Mill Road and Gwynns Falls Parkway. The driver continued and struck another vehicle while driving the wrong way down Woodridge Road, where he bailed out and entered the car of an apparent accomplice, Monroe said. “He had a friend waiting in the wings to whisk him away, and that friend tried to run over our officers,”
Monroe said, adding that one officer was injured.
She said that was when officers fired at the second car. The two drove crashed into a third car on Wildwood Parkway, where the o suspects got out of the car and ran. The first suspect eluded police, but his accomplice, a 19-year-old, was arrested, Monroe said. Police said two civilians involved in the accidents and the officer were being examined but did not appear to suffer serious injuries.
—Brittany Britto 16-year-old charged in assault of city official A16-year-old has been charged as an adult in the assault and robbery of an assistant city health commissioner in downtown Baltimore earlier this month, Baltimore police said. Devonte Parker of the 4000 block of Annellen Road was charged with robbery, first- and second-degree assault, police said. Parker was one of four teens involved in the June 9 attack, which took place about1p.m. near Baltimore and Commerce streets. Greg Sileo —who said he does not remember the incident — suffered multiple facial fractures, swelling and bruising as a result of the attack. Parker turned himself in after someone recognized him in a surveillance video released by police, authorities said. Detectives are still searching for three other suspects. Sileo oversees various anti-violence programs at the Health Department.
—Michael Brice-Saddler City’s ‘Public Enemy No. 1’ still on the run Cortez Wall, an 18-year-old wanted for murder, is still on the run, a month after Baltimore police dubbed him “Public Enemy No.1.” It is the longest period of time a person given the title has remained at large since the department first started using it in the summer of 2013. Wall was given the designation May 17, and remained on the run into the weekend, confirmed Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. Wall, of the 5600 block of Plymouth Road in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood, is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting May 6 of 28-year-old Channon Simpkins in the 300 block of Whitridge Ave. in the Harwood neighborhood, police said.
—Kevin Rector Maryland man arrested in child kidnapping Federal agents have arrested a Maryland man who was accused of international parental kidnapping, ending a six-year saga. FBI and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested Faical Chebbi of Accokeek on Wednesday after he landed at Dulles International Airport, prosecutors said. Chebbi, who made an initial appearance in court Thursday, was accused of taking his two children to Tunisia in 2011. The case highlighted the problem of international child abductions, where one parent takes a child to a country where U.S. custody orders are ignored. Federal prosecutors said he faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
—John Fritze
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