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

Assault rifles seized in drug raid north of Patterson Park 5/23/2013
Police: Man said he had guns because he was 'preparing for the war' Baltimore police seized three assault rifles and more than 7,000 rounds of ammunition in a drug raid on an East Baltimore house just north of Patterson Park.

City patrol officer retires after nearly 40 years on the beat 5/22/2013
Officer Ron Starr, 67, walked streets of Southeastern District for nearly four decades During a career spanning four decades, Baltimore police Officer Ron Starr says, he never really considered leaving the department's Southeastern District and moving up the chain of command.

Seven people shot, one fatally, in five incidents in Baltimore 5/22/2013
At least one other man critically injured in spate of violence Tuesday into Wednesday Seven people were shot — at least one fatally — in Baltimore between Tuesday afternoon and early Wednesday morning, with the violence stretching from Brooklyn in the south to Gwynn Oak in the northwest and Darley Park in the east.

Guns stolen from home of Ravens' Ray Rice 5/20/2013
Two guns and cash were stolen in a weekend burglary at the Reisterstown home of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, Baltimore County police confirmed.

Baltimore police officer charged with second-degree assault 5/17/2013
Prosecutors also file misconduct charges and allege he assailed a man in May 2012 Baltimore police officer Robert W. Mitchell faces a second-degree assault charge after police and prosecutors accused him of overstepping his powers and beating a young man more than a year ago.