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Fashion CEO, Wife Found Shot Dead Outside California Residence Fashion CEO, Wife Found Shot Dead Outside California Residence Fashion CEO, Wife Found Shot Dead Outside California Residence
Fashion CEO, Wife Found Shot Dead Outside California Residence A fashion company CEO and his wife were found shot dead outside their California home, according to multiple reports. Neighbors identified the couple as Bryan and Michelle Walker, who built the women’s clothing brand, Bryn Walker.  They were found outside their home on Panoramic Way in Oakland, California, on Friday, Oct. 2, The Berkeley Scanner reported. Police had not publicly released their names when the Scanner published its report. Michelle was 63. Reports differed on Bryan’s age. A neighbor who heard gunfire discovered the couple around 10:45 a.m., according to the Scanner, ci…

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22-Year-Old Killed, Two Hospitalized After Overnight Maryland Crash: Police 22-Year-Old Killed, Two Hospitalized After Overnight Maryland Crash: Police 22-Year-Old Killed, Two Hospitalized After Overnight Maryland Crash: Police
22-Year-Old Killed, Two Hospitalized After Overnight Maryland Crash: Police A Friday night drive turned deadly in Maryland. Cameron Crosell, 22, was killed in a two-vehicle crash near Red Run Boulevard and Meadows Road in Baltimore County at approximately 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, police announced the following morning. According to Baltimore County police, a 2004 Honda Accord was traveling on Red Run Boulevard toward Meadows Road before crashing with a 2018 GMC Yukon that had been heading northeast in the opposite direction. Crosell was rushed to an area hospital, where he later died from his injuries. The driver of the Yukon and a passenger in the Honda were al…

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A Candle In A Closet Brought 70 Firefighters To This Maryland High-Rise A Candle In A Closet Brought 70 Firefighters To This Maryland High-Rise A Candle In A Closet Brought 70 Firefighters To This Maryland High-Rise
A Candle In A Closet Brought 70 Firefighters To This Maryland High-Rise A candle left burning in a closet quickly became more than one Maryland resident could handle. The fire broke out at around 10:15 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 2, inside an eighth-floor apartment at Blair Plaza Apartments on Blair Mill Road in Silver Spring, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials. A 911 caller reported flames inside a closet, prompting a massive response to the 15-story building that was not equipped with sprinklers. Approximately 70 firefighters responded as crews made their way into the eighth-floor unit, where they found an active fire and kept the fl…

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Two Dozen Uploads Led Feds To Maryland Man Now Facing Child Exploitation Charge: DOJ Two Dozen Uploads Led Feds To Maryland Man Now Facing Child Exploitation Charge: DOJ Two Dozen Uploads Led Feds To Maryland Man Now Facing Child Exploitation Charge: DOJ
Two Dozen Uploads Led Feds To Maryland Man Now Facing Child Exploitation Charge: DOJ More than two dozen files uploaded to an online account led investigators to a Maryland man who now faces a federal child exploitation charge carrying at least 15 years behind bars, prosecutors say. Charles Mark Wooters, 34, of Easton, was indicted on eight federal counts involving child sex abuse material, the US Attorney's Office announced on Friday, Oct. 2. The case dates back to November 2025, when prosecutors say Wooters uploaded more than two dozen files depicting minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct to an internet-based storage account. Investigators apparently found more whe…

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19 Kilos Of Cocaine, Loaded Guns, Fentanyl Pills: Maryland Dealer Admits Role In Drug Ring 19 Kilos Of Cocaine, Loaded Guns, Fentanyl Pills: Maryland Dealer Admits Role In Drug Ring 19 Kilos Of Cocaine, Loaded Guns, Fentanyl Pills: Maryland Dealer Admits Role In Drug Ring
19 Kilos Of Cocaine, Loaded Guns, Fentanyl Pills: Maryland Dealer Admits Role In Drug Ring The cocaine traveled a long way before hitting the streets. A Maryland drug operation moved bulk quantities from California into stash houses before David Carroll, 35, helped distribute it around Baltimore, authorities announced on Friday. Federal investigators began watching the Baltimore-based organization in 2023 as they tracked large quantities of cocaine making their way across the country. Carroll became a familiar face at one of the group's stash houses inside a Baltimore apartment. In October 2023, investigators watched him walk out of the apartment with what they believed were dr…

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16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Fairfax County: Police 16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Fairfax County: Police 16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Fairfax County: Police
16-Year-Old Surrenders Days After 2 Men Shot In Fairfax County: Police A teenager responsible for a double shooting in Northern Virginia surrendered this week, days after two men were hospitalized, police say. Officers from the Fairfax County Police Department were called around 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29, to the 7700 block of Richmond Highway in Hybla Valley, where there was a reported shooting. Upon arrival, first responders found one man suffering from a gunshot wound to his lower body and a second man suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. Both injuries were considered non-life-threatening. Investigators say a 16-year-old who knew both vic…

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Pair Used Stolen IDs To Land DC Apartments, Then Exploited Eviction Delays: Feds Pair Used Stolen IDs To Land DC Apartments, Then Exploited Eviction Delays: Feds Pair Used Stolen IDs To Land DC Apartments, Then Exploited Eviction Delays: Feds
Pair Used Stolen IDs To Land DC Apartments, Then Exploited Eviction Delays: Feds They found a way to live rent-free. Then prosecutors say they kept doing it. Two DC residents are accused of cycling through stolen and fake identities to land apartments without paying the bills, exploiting an eviction process that could keep them inside for months while losses climbed into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maliktra Derenorcourt, 27, and Philippe Oliver Gadie, 34, were charged in a seven-count indictment unsealed this week as federal investigators continue digging into what they describe as a multiyear housing and Social Security fraud scheme. The alleged playbook was…

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Former Maryland Mayor Accused Of Stealing From Groups He Served As Treasurer: Prosecutor Former Maryland Mayor Accused Of Stealing From Groups He Served As Treasurer: Prosecutor Former Maryland Mayor Accused Of Stealing From Groups He Served As Treasurer: Prosecutor
Former Maryland Mayor Accused Of Stealing From Groups He Served As Treasurer: Prosecutor He was the man trusted to keep track of the money. For nearly eight years, Maryland prosecutors say former mayor Bennard Cann instead misappropriated and embezzled funds while serving as treasurer for two organizations representing municipal leaders across the state and Prince George's County. Cann, 52, the former mayor of Morningside, was indicted on seven counts in connection with money belonging to the Maryland Mayors' Association and Prince George's County Municipal Association, State's Attorney Tara Jackson announced on Friday, Oct. 2. And this wasn't a matter of a few questionable tr…

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'Fireball' Zoey Harrison's Killer Gets Prison Time For Deadly Maryland Police Chase Crash 'Fireball' Zoey Harrison's Killer Gets Prison Time For Deadly Maryland Police Chase Crash 'Fireball' Zoey Harrison's Killer Gets Prison Time For Deadly Maryland Police Chase Crash
'Fireball' Zoey Harrison's Killer Gets Prison Time For Deadly Maryland Police Chase Crash For Zoey Harrison's family, nine years cannot bring their little "Fireball" back. But the Maryland man whose decision to flee police ended with the 3-year-old girl dead is now headed to prison. Capitol Heights resident Larry Naylor, 42, was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 2, to 10 years in prison with all but nine years suspended for grossly negligent manslaughter by motor vehicle, Prince George's County State's Attorney Tara Jackson announced. He will also serve five years of supervised probation after his release. The sentence comes nearly 19 months after the crash that killed Zoey Rose Marie…

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Pills, 'Lean,' $300 Prescriptions: Annandale Doctor Fueled Multi-State Drug Scheme, Feds Say Pills, 'Lean,' $300 Prescriptions: Annandale Doctor Fueled Multi-State Drug Scheme, Feds Say Pills, 'Lean,' $300 Prescriptions: Annandale Doctor Fueled Multi-State Drug Scheme, Feds Say
Pills, 'Lean,' $300 Prescriptions: Annandale Doctor Fueled Multi-State Drug Scheme, Feds Say A doctor's appointment came with a much different price tag: $300 for a fraudulent prescription. Four Maryland men who helped turn prescriptions from a Virginia doctor into a multi-state drug operation were sentenced in federal court on Friday, Oct. 2, after admitting to their roles in a scheme involving thousands of oxycodone pills and massive quantities of prescription cough syrup. The undertaking centered around Dr. Rotimi Iluyomade and his Crossover Medical Center in Annandale, where prosecutors say co-conspirators arrived with lists of supposed "patients," false addresses and different…

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Drugs, Not Police Restraint, Caused Michael MacDougall's Maryland In-Custody Maryland Death: AG Drugs, Not Police Restraint, Caused Michael MacDougall's Maryland In-Custody Maryland Death: AG Drugs, Not Police Restraint, Caused Michael MacDougall's Maryland In-Custody Maryland Death: AG
Drugs, Not Police Restraint, Caused Michael MacDougall's Maryland In-Custody Maryland Death: AG The bodycam raised questions. The autopsy provided an answer. A Maryland medical examiner determined that 40-year-old Michael MacDougall died from the combined effects of methadone and amphetamine following the July 1 crash and police encounter that ended with him unconscious in Greenbelt. His death was ruled an accident, and the restraint used by law enforcement did not contribute to it, according to findings released on Friday, Oct. 2, by the Maryland Attorney General's Office. Michael MacDougall Maryland OAG Attorney General Anthony Brown announced that Greenbelt Police Officer …

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Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana
Instagram 'Murder For Hire' Ad Led To Targeted Maryland Killing For Cash, Marijuana "Murder for hire." That's how Baltimore native Deondre Tywon Sharps advertised himself online before carrying out a targeted Maryland murder for the promise of money and marijuana. Sharps, 20, pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 2, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to first-degree murder in the deaths of Keion Damont McKinney and Joshua Ray Holland, both 34. The two men were murdered 15 days apart in June 2024. McKinney was first. Shortly after 7:20 p.m. on June 14, he was outside on Meade Village Circle in Severn when Sharps shot him once in the head. Surveillance video captured Sharps f…

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