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Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said the officers acted 'reasonably and lawfully' when they shot Donnell Rochester.

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott led off the triumphant Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade on Monday that he had promised city residents he would deliver.

Murder charges against Keith Davis Jr were dropped after a lengthy legal battle in Baltimore.

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a gag order and threatened to hold the lead defense attorney for former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby in criminal contempt of court, potentially removing him from the case.

The Baltimore Police officer who shot and killed Donnell Rochester in February fired the fatal fourth shot when Rochester “no longer posed a threat” to the officer or any others, according to the Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division.

A federal judge denied a motion to move the trial against former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby to Greenbelt.

DA Mosby is facing her own legal problems. Last year she was indicted on federal charges of perjury & making a false statement on a loan applications.

Maryland state lawmakers are concerned about the violence in Baltimore City, and they want answers.

The Baltimore Police officer who shot and killed Donnell Rochester in February fired the fatal fourth shot when Rochester “no longer posed a threat” to the officer or any others, according to the Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division.

Keith Davis Jr. stood trial four times in Baltimore for the murder of security guard Kevin Jones. The charges were dropped amid a looming fifth trial.