Crime reporter covering Baltimore City, contributing to the Baltimore Crime Beat blog and maintaining the city homicide map.

Justin Fenton joined the Sun in 2005 and has covered the Baltimore City Police Department and the criminal justice system since 2008. His work includes an investigation into Cal Ripken Jr.’s minor league baseball stadium deal with his hometown of Aberdeen, a three-part series chronicling a ruthless con woman, the killing of five Amish children at a schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa. and a job swap with a British crime reporter to explore differences in crime-fighting. A story about how Baltimore police were discarding rape cases at a higher rate than any other city led to sweeping reforms in how the city investigates sex crimes. In 2010, the City Paper recognized him and colleague Peter Hermann as the Best Journalists in Baltimore.

Access to public records, covering crime using social media

Boys sentenced for roles in killing of Monae Turnage 5/16/2012
Family frustrated with system geared toward rehabilitation The young boys involved in the shooting death of Monae Turnage, whose body they hid under trash bags in an East Baltimore alley, were sentenced in juvenile court Wednesday.

DOJ seeks to tighten Baltimore policy on recording police 5/16/2012
The U.S. Department of Justice isn't satisfied with the Baltimore Police Department's recently issued orders on citizens' right to record officers.

Baltimore's oldest black cemetery finally restored, with help of inmates 5/14/2012
Mt. Auburn project one of many state funnels inmates to work on Five years after burying his father, Samuel W. Moore could no longer find the grave.

Four homicides reported in Baltimore on Mother's Day 5/14/2012
Woman, 36, shot at stop light early Saturday also listed in critical condition Baltimore police are investigating four homicides and a nonfatal shooting that occurred Sunday during a violent weekend that also left a 36-year-old woman in critical condition after her car was shot at as she sat at a stoplight.

Panel of experts to aid search for Baltimore's top cop 5/9/2012
Barksdale, Skinner considered top in-house candidates Baltimore officials said Wednesday that they plan to bring together a panel of experts and hire an outside firm in their search for the city's next police commissioner, even as two potential candidates got an audition of sorts before the City Council.