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2011 Baltimore County Homicides/Murders

This site is keeping track of the murders/homicides in Baltimore County for 2011. If you are interested in the murders/homicides in Baltimore City you can utilize this 2011 Baltimore City list here

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No.	Date	Name	Age	Address Block Murdered	City	Murdered by
01.	01/08/11	Nathan Bowles	41	9800 Langs Road	Middle River	Quincy Jackson, charged
02.	02/04/11	Stile Brown	1	9500 Branchleigh Road	Randallstown	Sheldon Brown, charged
03.	02/19/11	Vincent Isiah Thomas	20	4200 Annapolis Road	Baltimore Highlands	Keith Burgess, Damonya Cook
04.	02/20/11	Brandon Jackson	18	7300 McLean Road	Parkville	Clinton Bradley, charged
05.	03/22/11	Keon Dobbs	17	0 Birdknoll Court	Baltimore Highlands	Armando Cele Hernandez, charged
06.	03/28/11	Willie Cedric Jackson	20	4000 Winlee road	Randallstown	Sterling Gregory Lewis, charged
07.	04/02/11	David Durand Cleveland	35	2900 Dunmurray Road	Dundalk	Donnell Wilkens, charged
08.	04/04/11	Jacqueline Paul	35	300 Grovethorn Road	Middle River	Sam Davis, charged
09.	05/09/11	Robin Lynn Hudson	46	1900 Old Eastern Ave	Middle River	Daniel Byrd, charged
10.	05/13/11	Richard Francis	31	1700 Reisterstown Road	Pikesville	Ricardo Anthony Beckford, charged
11.	05/29/11	Antonio Guzman-Rangel	33	1300 Reisterstown Road	Pikesville	Mario and Freddy Linares, charged
12.	05/29/11	Guillermo Garcia	30	1300 Reisterstown Road	Pikesville	Mario and Freddy Linares, charged
13.	06/27/11	Alicia Lee Avery	25	8700 Loch Bend Drive	Parkville	Brian Eggleston
14.	06/27/11	Darryl'el Parker	4	8700 Loch Bend Drive	Parkville	Brian Eggleston
15.	07/02/11	George William Bryant	36	8014 Pulaski Highway	Rosedale
16.	07/24/11	Katelyn Messina	17	Int. of Stansfield Lane & Ct.	Randallstown	Ryan McLean and Elrich Smith

17.	08/17/11	Bradley Adam Robinson	19	0 Jack Pine Place	White Marsh	Travis Brian Durant, charged
18.	08/20/11	Jamari Devon Mathis	38	1700 Forrest Avenue	Parkville	Vincent Garnett Forney, charged
19.	07/20/06	Joseph A. Miranda	19	4195 St.Paul Road	Hampstead	An unnamed landscaping company coworker
20.	08/29/11	Tyran Desean Smoot	18	Silerton Court	Lansdowne
21.	09/16/11	Robert Charles Nelson	24	7500 Lange Street	Dundalk	Jeremiah Edwards, charged
XX	09/25/11	Nathan Dixson McCormick	40	7300 Berkshire Road	Dundalk	Shot by Baltimore County Police Officer
22.	10/04/11	Ronald Thomas Givens	55	3400 Woodmoor Road	Woodlawn	Derius Duncan, Keyon Beads, Clifford Butler Jr., David Johnson, all charged, Duncan and Butler convicted
23.	10/12/11	Ryan Wesley Jackson	18	700 Rambo Court	Lansdowne	Larry Horton
24.	10/19/11	Ernest Bo Gales	21	2100 Salt Lake Drive	Milford Mill	$10K Reward offered
25.	10/20/11	? Sigmond	8?	10100 Bird River Road	Middle River	? Sigmond
26.	11/02/11	Evelyn Hofferberth	66	2700 Sarah Lane	Parkville	Brett Hofferberth
27.	02/11/11	Yulia Pogrebenko	54	Chesapeake Bay		Dmitry Yuryevich Pronin is a suspect
28.	12/19/11	Rodney Vest Pridget	19	Towson Town Center	Towson	Tyrone Brown Jr., Franklin Williams, Jermell Brandon, William Ward
29.	12/21/11	Kevin Regusters	23	2600 Purnell Drive	Woodlawn	George Evans Jr., charged
30.	11/23/11	Gwendolyn Jackson	44	4600 Chicory Lane	Pikesville	Herbert Johnson, charged

Number of Baltimore County homicides associated with Domestic Violence in 2011 so far: 10
Total number of Baltimore County homicides associated with Domestic Violence between 07/01/09 and 06/30/10: 7

Historic Maps of Baltimore Harbor 1900-1943

This is in addition to my previous post which has the Baltimore harbor maps from 1838 to 1895. I've been cutting these pieces from maps found in the Sheridan collection of the Peabody Library. There is lots of good stuff in it so you can go poke around, most of these map sections are cut from much large city maps.

Crams 1900 Baltimore Harbor

1905 Americana Baltimore Harbor Map

Spoffard Birds Eye 1912 Baltimore Harbor Drawing

Spoffard 1912 Birds Eye Baltimore Harbor

Baltimore Harbor 1926 Street Paving Map

1935 Baltimore Harbor Rock Floor Map

1943 Baltimore Street Car Map

Skinniest Houses in Baltimore

Oddly enough, I've been invited into both of these houses. I saw these years ago when they they were standing alone in a sea of a parking lot. A man invited me into the one on the right to showcase his living room. I since forgot about them and then parking lots morphed in to a large parking garage and a fancy hotel. I thought the skinny houses got demolished in the process but they I noticed they were still hidden in the alley, just no longer visible from afar. The people in the left house caught me taking pictures and were nice enough to show me their fashionable living room as well. The houses are at 841-843 South Dallas Street. Each one is 7ft. wide inside.

Eleventh District City(11th) Council Boundary Map -2011 William Cole's District - Baltimore, Maryland

View Baltimore 11ths District Boundary Map 2011 in Google Maps

3 weeks ago I was walking around the 700 block of Dolphin Street where I met upon some friends who lived there. I asked them who their council representative was and they didn't know. I thought, smugly, I bet they don't have that extra-enthusiastic council representation that I have in that Bill Cole. But then I was having a spirited email discussion tonight with Bill about those wayward city police officers and I mentioned the screaming high homicide rate on Dolphin Street, and Bill informed me that Dolphin Street IS his district. I am wondering how often he gets over there to give those West Baltimore citizens adequate city council representation. Perhaps he gets lost or distracted when he tries to visit those West Baltimore neighborhoods.

I wanted to know more about Bill's new city council district boundaries so I visited Bill Cole's personal website and took a good hard look at that boundary map in the pdf. I found the map highly substandard because I was confused as to which streets it encompassed so I decided to redraw the map using Google Maps, this way the user can choose map view or satellite view, and can also zoom in to see their home. I can only assume Bill cherry-picked where he wanted his district, notice that like jig and jog to include Shot Tower Park where there is the Police Memorial, and that strangely odd corner to include the Hanover Street boat ramp and the Viet Nam War Memorial. Bill knows that whitey loves those memorial parks. If Bill likes memorial parks so much maybe we can get a new one for all the innocent people killed by Baltimore City Police Officers. The boundary nicely abuts the prisons but he was savvy enough not to include them. Bill probably thinks prisons are so yucky and so black.

If you want to see 2 really neat maps of the same council district you may go to the City That Breeds blogpost that shows the same boundaries annotating racial make-up of the neighborhoods and income levels with data from the 2010 Census.

Except for those low-income African Americans over on Dolphin Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, Bill's new boundaries encompass a lot of Caucasians and a lot of money. I'm not sure Bill gives are rat's ass about Dolphin Street or the homicide rate. Caucasian Bill doesn't need Dolphin Street and Pennsylvania Avenue to be elected by a bunch of rich Caucasians with money. It's April of 2011 and Bill's area of West Baltimore has turned into a blood bath. He stays strangely silent on the matter of the homicides, other then when there is a vote to throw more money at the corrupt police department.

Either way, if you want to phone Bill Cole, you can call him at his council office 410 396 4816 or email him at william.cole@baltimorecity.gov . I suggest you do it frequently, those are your tax dollars that pay his city council salary.

Historic Maps of Baltimore Harbor 1792-1895

I'm doing a project involving the history of the Baltimore Harbor. I've had to make up some maps to help with the project. I thought I would post them here in case anyone else needs to use them. I have an additional post that includes the harbor maps from 1900-1943. These maps are cut from larger city maps in the Sheridan Collection of the Peabody Library.

1792 Folies Map of Baltimore, harbor area only. This is the only map the doesn't come from the Sheridan Collection. You can find this at the Library of Congress or here.