No Charges For Maryland Officers Who Fatally Shot Armed Man Running At Cop: AG No Charges For Maryland Officers Who Fatally Shot Armed Man Running At Cop: AG
No Charges For Maryland Officers Who Fatally Shot Armed Man Running At Cop: AG A suicidal 911 call turned into gunfire on a Maryland street in a matter of minutes. At approximately 9:12 a.m. on Thursday, May 14, Baltimore City dispatchers were told that 46-year-old Louis Jackson was at 820 S. Caton Ave. with a gun and threatening to kill himself, according to a newly released report from the Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division on Friday. Eight minutes later, Baltimore Police Officer Sharod Watson was driving his marked cruiser near South Caton and Wilkens avenues when he radioed that a man on the corner had fired at his patrol vehicle. Tha…
WATCH: Baseball Team's Plane Struck By Lightning WATCH: Baseball Team's Plane Struck By Lightning
Watch: Baseball Team's Plane Struck By Lightning A plane carrying the Party Animals baseball team was struck by lightning while flying into the Lehigh Valley ahead of two games this weekend, officials said. The flight was traveling from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Lehigh Valley International Airport when the lightning strike happened on the way down for landing on Friday, Aug. 7. The plane landed safely at LVIA, according to officials. Party Animals player Garett Delano had been documenting the team's travel troubles on social media before the lightning strike. “30 minute delay to start the trip to Lehigh Valley. Nothing …
Ford Ranger Goes Up In Flames At Maryland Park-And-Ride Before Dawn: Fire Marshal Ford Ranger Goes Up In Flames At Maryland Park-And-Ride Before Dawn: Fire Marshal
Ford Ranger Goes Up In Flames At Maryland Park-And-Ride Before Dawn: Fire Marshal A Maryland passerby stumbled onto quite the wake-up call before sunrise on Friday. The 1998 Ford Ranger caught fire at approximately 2:45 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 7, at the park-and-ride at 250 Silverwood Lane in Prince Frederick, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal. The passerby reported the burning pickup with its owner at the scene, prompting a response from the Prince Frederick Volunteer Fire Department. Ten firefighters had the one-alarm blaze under control within 15 minutes. Investigators determined the fire started in the Ranger's engine compartment, where the flames were conc…
Hit-Run Driver Strikes 10-Year-Old Bicyclist, Takes Off In Virginia, Police Say (DEVELOPING) Hit-Run Driver Strikes 10-Year-Old Bicyclist, Takes Off In Virginia, Police Say (DEVELOPING)
Hit-Run Driver Strikes 10-Year-Old Bicyclist, Takes Off In Virginia, Police Say (Developing) A 10-year-old bicyclist was hit. The driver didn't stick around. Fairfax County police were called to the intersection of Baron Cameron Avenue and Reston Parkway in Reston on Friday morning, Aug. 7, after a child riding a bicycle was struck by a hit-and-run driver. The child was taken to an area hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said shortly after 10 a.m. The driver, meanwhile, was nowhere to be found. Police say the striking vehicle fled the scene and was last seen heading east on Baron Cameron Avenue. Investigators described it only as a dark-colo…
Maryland Man Needed His Girlfriend's Glasses After Seeing These Lottery Numbers Maryland Man Needed His Girlfriend's Glasses After Seeing These Lottery Numbers
Maryland Man Needed His Girlfriend's Glasses After Seeing These Lottery Numbers Who says you can’t go home again? A Maryland man turned an old address into a new fortune after playing the same five numbers four times and watching every last ticket hit for a cool $200,000 Lottery payday. Russell Bowie, of Gaithersburg, has a list of numbers he regularly plays in the Maryland Lottery’s Pick games, including one Pick 5 combination pulled from an old home address. That address just paid him back with interest. “I play all three Pick games,” Bowie said. “And I have a list of numbers I play pretty regularly.” Some get a little more love than others. “Some of them are my …
The American Dream? Man Deported 3 Times Returns, Steals US Citizen's Identity The American Dream? Man Deported 3 Times Returns, Steals US Citizen's Identity
The American Dream? Man Deported 3 Times Returns, Steals US Citizen's Identity Three deportations apparently weren't enough to keep Carlos Alexis Chavez-Paz from coming back. The American Dream was apparently too great. Chavez-Paz, a Honduran national, illegally entered or reentered the US four times before stealing an American citizen's identity in an attempt to stay under the radar of immigration authorities in Virginia, federal prosecutors announced. It was a trip to the DMV that ultimately landed Chavez-Paz in federal court. On Jan. 10, 2025, Chavez-Paz walked into a DMV customer service center in Stafford County armed with an authentic Kentucky driver's license…
New Video Shows Drunk Driver Demanding To Call Dad After Killing Bride On Wedding Night New Video Shows Drunk Driver Demanding To Call Dad After Killing Bride On Wedding Night
New Video Shows Drunk Driver Demanding To Call Dad After Killing Bride On Wedding Night “I would like to call my dad right now.” Newly released police video shows Hunterdon County native Jamie Komoroski repeatedly asking to call her father after the drunken South Carolina crash that killed a bride on her wedding night. The series of videos released by South Carolina news station WCSC shows Komoroski at a bar before the 2023 crash in Folly Beach, speaking with police near the wreckage, and later being processed at police headquarters. Police body-camera footage shows Komoroski sitting on the lawn of a home near the crash scene, where her rental car can be seen resting against …
Maryland Man Denied His Own Name, Flew To Turks And Caicos, Then Pleaded Guilty To Fraud: DOJ Maryland Man Denied His Own Name, Flew To Turks And Caicos, Then Pleaded Guilty To Fraud: DOJ
Maryland Man Denied His Own Name, Flew To Turks And Caicos, Then Pleaded Guilty To Fraud: DOJ Apparently, stealing $1.35 million wasn't enough drama for Robert Terrell. Terrell, 51, a DC and Bowie resident, pleaded guilty to wire fraud this week after prosecutors say he falsified documents to secure more than a million dollars in COVID-19 relief funds for his business. That, somehow, may be the least bizarre part of the case. After he was indicted, Terrell initially appeared in federal court and acknowledged that his name was "Robert Alphonso Terrell," according to prosecutors. Then he changed his tune. At his next hearing and several that followed, Terrell denied that he was "Ro…
‘OC Legend’ Faces Fight For His Sight As Rare Disease Strikes Maryland Man ‘OC Legend’ Faces Fight For His Sight As Rare Disease Strikes Maryland Man
‘OC Legend’ Faces Fight For His Sight As Rare Disease Strikes Maryland Man The world is getting harder to see for a Maryland man who has spent years being a familiar face to others. Ocean City native Jason Cropper has suffered significant vision loss over the past six months, and doctors suspect he has Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, or LHON, a rare inherited disorder that causes sudden, painless loss of central vision, according to a GoFundMe campaign launched this week by his brother, Steve Cropper. For Jason, the uncertainty is mounting. He lives alone. His eyesight continues to decline. And he does not know how much longer he will be able to work and suppo…
Stolen Truck, Armed Carjacking, DC Crash: Maryland Man Charged In Wild Crime Spree, Police Say Stolen Truck, Armed Carjacking, DC Crash: Maryland Man Charged In Wild Crime Spree, Police Say
Stolen Truck, Armed Carjacking, DC Crash: Maryland Man Charged In Wild Crime Spree, Police Say His getaway didn't last long. A Maryland man accused of pulling a gun on a woman and stealing her vehicle during a midday carjacking in Virginia was caught hours later after a pursuit ended with a crash in DC, police said. Tyler Abrahim Afsar, 23, of Hyattsville, has now been charged in the Tuesday, July 14 carjacking in the Cherrydale neighborhood, Arlington County Police announced on Thursday, Aug. 6. It began at approximately 12:59 p.m. in the 4100 block of 18th Street North, where investigators say a woman was sitting inside her parked vehicle when Afsar pulled up in a pickup truck. T…
Pilot's Final Flight Was Test Run After Repairs Before Fatal Virginia Plane Crash: NTSB Pilot's Final Flight Was Test Run After Repairs Before Fatal Virginia Plane Crash: NTSB
Pilot's Final Flight Was Test Run After Repairs Before Fatal Virginia Plane Crash: NTSB Rowland Babcock Jr.'s final flight lasted only minutes before something went terribly wrong. New details released on Thursday, Aug. 6, by the National Transportation Safety Board are shedding light on the moments before the 78-year-old Ruther Glen pilot was killed in a crash near Shannon Airport in Fredericksburg in July. Babcock was conducting a test flight in an experimental Montana Coyote after repairs were made to the plane following an earlier mishap, according to the NTSB's preliminary report. Family members told investigators the aircraft had been repaired after a "landing grou…
Maryland Murder Suspect Was Released From Jail Despite ICE Detainer Before Fatal Shooting: DHS Maryland Murder Suspect Was Released From Jail Despite ICE Detainer Before Fatal Shooting: DHS
Maryland Murder Suspect Was Released From Jail Despite ICE Detainer Before Fatal Shooting: DHS A Maryland murder case just became the latest flashpoint in the immigration fight. The Department of Homeland Security took aim at state officials on Thursday, Aug. 6, after 34-year-old Noe Castillo-Mendez was charged in the fatal shooting of 44-year-old Dolores Leiva Hernandez, claiming the accused killer had previously been released from custody despite an ICE detainer. Castillo-Mendez, of Riverdale Park, is charged with second-degree murder and related offenses in connection with the shooting at approximately 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, inside an apartment in the 5400 block of Kenil…