Stephen Pitcairn

Hopkins pledges $10 million for neighborhoods

2012-12-06 17:18:21

The Johns Hopkins University pledged Thursday to spend $10 million over the next five years to strengthen and stabilize neighborhoods near its North Baltimore campus. "The interests of our neighbors — safe streets, the elimination of blighted...

Baltimore researcher killing highlights issue of robberies

2012-09-24 09:00:00

An apparent robbery last week claimed the life of a psychology researcher and supporter of Baltimore youth music education, again calling attention to the issue of robberies in the city. After aggravated assaults, robberies are the second-most-...

Latest senseless killing should stir action

2012-09-21 10:30:00

This is a sad, sad day for Baltimore. Your story about the utterly senseless, tragic killing of Peter Marvit ("Scientist gunned down in street," Sept. 19) brings us face to face with a reality we are often able to ignore. That reality is that there...

Baltimore's top prosecutor to try murder case

2012-03-30 16:07:25

After his first city prosecution resulted in a mixed outcome last year, with one defendant acquitted and two others convicted of minor offenses, Baltimore State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein is set to try a murder case Monday. William Carr, 50, is...

Huguely jurors to decide between levels of homicide during deliberation

2012-02-21 16:53:00

Though George Huguely V is charged with premeditated murder in the 2010 death of his University of Virginia girlfriend, Yeardley Love, attorneys following the case say it's unlikely that the jury will find he intended to kill her when members begin...

Update: Shooting in Charles Village a homicide

2011-12-09 05:05:00

A 22-year-old man was found shot to death inside his Charles Village apartment Thursday night, according to a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department. Police said the body was found by a friend who hadn’t been able to reach the victim for...

Man shot in head in Charles Village

2011-12-09 03:54:00

An adult man was reported shot in the head Thursday night on North Calvert Street in Charles Village, according to the Baltimore Police Department. Few details were available this morning, but police said the shooting occurred minutes before 11 p.m....

Morgan student fatally shot in Charles Village

2011-12-09 14:08:26

A 22-year-old Morgan State University student was found shot to death inside his Charles Village apartment Thursday night, a killing that police said could be drug-related. The victim was identified as Brandon Hudson, who lived in a first-floor apartment...

Wagner gets 7 more years in prison for Pitcairn killing

2011-12-16 11:58:00

John Wagner was ordered to serve an additional seven years in prison for the 2010 murder of a Johns Hopkins researcher after a judge ruled Friday that the stabbing death violated Wagner's probation from an earlier assault case, the Baltimore State's...

Merritt gets more time in Pitcairn attack

2011-12-19 11:21:00

Lavelva Merritt was sentenced to an additional five years in prison Monday after a judge ruled that she violated her probation from an earlier drug case when she and a boyfriend attacked a Johns Hopkins researcher last year, the Baltimore State's...

2011: A re-wind

2011-12-30 16:25:00

Fast cars zipped around downtown Baltimore streets and, it turns out, the race promoters' financial messes. A robocall that urged voters to relax and stay home led jurors to a vote of their own: guilty of election fraud. We bade farewell to an iconic...

Roommate testifies suspect confessed to robbing slain Hopkins researcher

2011-08-10 17:11:00

A roommate of a man charged with killing a Johns Hopkins researcher in Charles Village last summer testified Wednesday that moments after the attack the suspect said he "had robbed someone and that he had hurt him real bad." Tyrine Williams told jurors...

The sentencing of his killer Friday brings the case to a close. It provides justice for Mr. Pitcairn�s family and friends and finally puts away for good a man who never should have been on the streets in the first place.

2011-10-21 11:35:18

and during an election year. It's a legacy his mother, Gwen Pitcairn, never wanted. "He was so much more in life than in death," she told The Sun during her the first interview following John Wagner's conviction.

2011-09-28 00:00:00

Stephen Pitcairn in Japan.

2011-09-28 00:00:00