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Family Outraged Over Revision To 'Officer Keona Holley Public Safety Act' Family Outraged Over Revision To 'Officer Keona Holley Public Safety Act'
Family Outraged Over Revision To 'Officer Keona Holley Public Safety Act' Outrage is brewing after a bill honoring a fallen Baltimore Police officer was revised during a recent Senate hearing, multiple sources report. When it was originally introduced to the Senate, the Officer Keona Holley Public Safety Act (S652) was designed to remove the option of parole for people convicted of conspiring, attempting or committing the murder of a police officer. Now, the bill focuses on expanding state funds to provide college scholarships to children of first responders who were killed in the line of duty – and Holley’s family is not happy "We're extremely disappointed a…

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by David Cifarelli
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Bill Honoring Baltimore Officer Keona Holley Moves Through Maryland State Senate Bill Honoring Baltimore Officer Keona Holley Moves Through Maryland State Senate
Bill Honoring Baltimore Officer Keona Holley Moves Through Maryland State Senate A bill honoring a Baltimore Police Officer Keona Holley,  who was unjustly killed in her cruiser at work, is working its way through the Maryland State Senate. Senate Bill 652 would make people ineligible for parole if they are convicted of conspiring, attempting or committing the murder of a police officer. Members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee heard testimony about the bill on Tuesday, Mar. 15, WTOP reports.  Holley, 39, was sitting in her patrol car in the 4400 block of Pennington Avenue when she was shot multiple times by  Elliot Knox and Travon Shaw around 1:30 a.m. on…

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by David Cifarelli
Police & Fire
$118,000 Reward Offered In Ambush Shooting Of Baltimore Police Officer $118,000 Reward Offered In Ambush Shooting Of Baltimore Police Officer
$118,000 Reward Offered In Ambush Shooting Of Baltimore Police Officer Maryland authorities are offering a $118,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the "ambush-style" shooting of a Baltimore police officer. Keona Holley, a two-year veteran of the force, was shot while sitting in her patrol car early Thursday on the 4400 block of Pennington Avenue, Baltimore police said. Officers were called to the scene around 1:35 a.m., after receiving a report of a patrol car that crashed. Officers found Holley, who had been assigned to the Southern District, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, police said. They rendered first aid and worked to get her …

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by Nicole Acosta