kali9/iStock(BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md.) Three people are dead, including a suspected shooter, and two injured following reports of an active shooter and fire at
Maryland Governor Issues Blanket Pardon For Lynching Victims
Gov. Larry Hogan granted posthumous pardons to 34 victims of lynching. His office said he was the first governor to do so.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Saturday granted posthumous pardons to 34 lynching victims. His office said it was the first time a governor had issued a “blanket pardon” of this kind.
Some children were among those pardoned, including Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black boy who was hanged by a white mob in 1885, and 13-year-old Frederick “whose full name was lost to history,” Hogan said.
The governor signed the pardons at an event memorializing Howard, who was killed after an all-white jury found him guilty of raping a white woman. The woman never testified, but the jury reportedly reached its verdict in under a minute. Before Howard’s attorneys were able to appeal the conviction to the U.S. Supreme Court, the boy was dragged from a Baltimore County jailhouse by an angry mob and hanged on
3 dead, suspect killed after shooting and fire in Baltimore County By: CNN
By Melissa Alonso and Hollie Silverman, CNN (CNN) Three people are dead and another was injured in a shooting and fire at a townhome Saturday morning just outside Baltimore, officials said.
Police and fire crews responded to calls of an active fire, as well as an active shooter around 6:40 a.m. in Woodlawn, Baltimore County Police spokesperson Joy Stewart said. Our officers responded to the scene. When they arrived, they found a man outside armed, Stewart told reporters during a news briefing.
The suspect was killed by police, Stewart said