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Justin Fenton
Reporter
My Role
Crime reporter covering Baltimore City, contributing to the Baltimore Crime Beat blog and maintaining the city homicide map.
My Biography
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.
My Interests
Access to public records, covering crime using social media
My Recent Articles
City prosecutors charge group tied to killing, shootings
5/18/2012
City police, DEA collaborate with investigation When a relative of accused druglord Robert G. Moore was stabbed and killed during a robbery, authorities say, Moore vowed to avenge the death.
Woman, 78, scared after two close to her are shot in Baltimore 5/17/2012
Police have said little of recent violence There's a swirl of violence occurring around 78-year-old Florence Carter, and she says she doesn't know why. But for the first time in nearly five decades, she's being forced to contemplate moving out of her Northeast Baltimore home.
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.
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.
DOJ seeks to tighten Baltimore policy on recording police 5/17/2012
The U.S. Department of Justice isn't satisfied with the Baltimore Police Department's recently issued orders on the public's right to record officers.
City police, DEA collaborate with investigation When a relative of accused druglord Robert G. Moore was stabbed and killed during a robbery, authorities say, Moore vowed to avenge the death.
Woman, 78, scared after two close to her are shot in Baltimore 5/17/2012
Police have said little of recent violence There's a swirl of violence occurring around 78-year-old Florence Carter, and she says she doesn't know why. But for the first time in nearly five decades, she's being forced to contemplate moving out of her Northeast Baltimore home.
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.
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.
DOJ seeks to tighten Baltimore policy on recording police 5/17/2012
The U.S. Department of Justice isn't satisfied with the Baltimore Police Department's recently issued orders on the public's right to record officers.
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