After three officers in the case were each tried and acquitted, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby went to West Baltimore — where Gray was raised and arrested — to announce that she would be dropping charges against the remaining officers.
The Baltimore Board of Estimates unanimously approved a $3.5 million settlement Wednesday with 68 current and former business owners whose properties were damaged during the 2015 unrest following Freddie Gray's death from injuries suffered in police custody.
Gray, 25, was arrested in the Gilmor Homes public housing complex in West Baltimore the morning of April 12, 2015, and placed in the back of a police van with his hands cuffed behind his back and his legs shackled. As he was being transported, he suffered a severe neck injury. He died in a hospital about a week later.
Prosecutors hinged their narrative on the findings of the Medical Examiner, Dr. Carol Allan. Because Freddie Gray's fatal injury resembled a “shallow diving accident,” Allan ruled out the possibility of it happening during his arrest, when Officer Miller allegedly pressed his knee into Gray's neck.
April 19, 2015Freddie Gray / Date of death
The eight GTTF members were sentenced to a combined 112 years in prison. The heaviest sentence was given to former Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, a leader on the task force. The 41-year-old is serving a 25-year sentence in a low-security prison in Ashland, Kentucky. His release date is in 2038.
$6.4 MillionThe family of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in April from injuries suffered while in Baltimore police custody, will receive a landmark settlement payment from the city's government.
On April 12, 2015, Freddie Carlos Gray Jr., a 25-year-old African American, was arrested by the Baltimore Police Department over his legal possession of a knife. While being transported in a police van, Gray sustained injuries and was taken to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center.
During the crucial last leg of Freddie Gray's ultimately fatal transport in the back of a Baltimore police van last year, there were only two other people present: the driver, Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., and Donta Allen, an arrestee placed on the other side of a thin metal divider from Gray.
$6.4 MillionThe family of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died in April from injuries suffered while in Baltimore police custody, will receive a landmark settlement payment from the city's government.
The remaining officers involved received sentences ranging from seven years to 12 years. This includes a Philadelphia police officer, Eric Snell, who had previously been a part of the BPD and had ties to the GTTF. In February 2022, Hendrix and Ward were released from federal prison after being sentenced to seven years.
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During the crucial last leg of Freddie Gray's ultimately fatal transport in the back of a Baltimore police van last year, there were only two other people present: the driver, Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., and Donta Allen, an arrestee placed on the other side of a thin metal divider from Gray.
Bates represents Sgt. Alicia White, the second-highest-ranking officer involved in the Gray case. White met the van carrying Gray at its last stop at 1600 W. North Ave. White is charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault and misconduct in office.
Nero was one of the three officers on bike patrol who made eye contact with Gray on North Avenue and Mount Street. He and Officer Garrett Miller chased Gray on their bikes and stopped him along the 1700 block of Presbury St.
Soon after the officers were charged, the city's police union had called for State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby to appoint a special prosecutor in the Gray case because of alleged conflicts of interest, citing the "lead prosecutor's connections with members of the local media." Bledsoe is in a relationship with a local TV reporter.
Like Flynn, Belsky represented one of the officers in the death of Anthony Anderson who was injured during a drug arrest, and died a short time later. The medical examiner's office ruled his death a homicide caused by blunt force trauma.
During the first motions hearing for the officers last week, Graham argued before the judge that the charges against the officers should be dropped because State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby made public statements that rendered a fair trial difficult. Judge Barry Williams ruled against the motion.
Schatzow argued on behalf of the prosecution at the initial motions hearing in the case, when a judge ruled against motions to dismiss the charges and recuse Mosby and others prosecutors from the case. The judge also ruled that the defendants would be tried separately.
Jessica Anderson started at The Baltimore Sun 2010 and currently covers the Baltimore Police Department. She's mostly covered crime and breaking news. She graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. and grew up in Baltimore County.
The Freddie Gray case instigated a new push for stronger police accountability laws and set the precedent in Baltimore and in cities across the country for implementing significant police reform. "That accountability ultimately led to reform, and because of that reform, we had a spotlight on the entrenched police corruption in one ...
Mosby's office has prosecuted 34 officers since Gray's death, 27 of whom have been convicted, she said. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison says Baltimore now has "probably ...
The city had its second-deadliest year on record in 2019 with 348 homicides. Baltimore recorded 335 homicides in 2020 and is headed on the same path with 167 homicides halfway into this year.
After the case in Gray's death was closed, then-mayor Rawlings-Blake criticized Mosby for announcing charges too quickly and "bowing to political pressure." Prosecutors had to rely on "circumstantial evidence" because the van was not equipped with cameras to determine when and how Gray was injured, Mosby told CNN.
Baltimore now has "probably the most robust" use-of-force policy in the country, which emphasizes the "sanctity of life" and de-escalation strategies , Harrison told CNN. The department has also revised policies on stops, searches and arrests, fair and impartial policing, youth engagement, peer intervention, responding to lesser offenses, and behavioral health awareness and crisis intervention.
We fought for police reform," Scott told CNN. Scott said he has long advocated for a "reimagining of public safety.". Protesters stand on cars near the intersection of in Baltimore on May 1, 2015, the day of the announcement of charges against the police officers involved in Freddie Gray's arrest.
Commissioner Harrison echoed the same sentiment, arguing that government leaders must address issues such as poverty, lack of education and opportunities, and substandard housing that either "pull or push people into a life of crime for survival."
Jurors in the trial of a police officer indicted in the April death of Freddie Gray went home for the weekend, following three days of testimony so far from nearly a dozen witnesses. Jurors in the trial of a police officer indicted in the April death of Freddie Gray went home for the weekend on Friday, following three days ...
Officer William Porter, the first of six to be tried in the death of Freddie Gray, ...
Officer William Porter, 26, faces charges that include manslaughter, second degree assault, and reckless endangerment, for what prosecutors allege was his role in the death of 25-year-old Gray. He was arrested on April 12 and died a week later, from injuries that prosecutors allege were sustained while being transported in a police van.
But hours after Gray's funeral on April 27, Baltimore was rocked by rioting, looting and arson. The governor called in the National Guard, and the mayor instituted a curfew. State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced charges on May 1.
That led to a subsequent taped interview in which officer Porter was questioned by Teel and others in internal affairs about what happened on the day of Gray's arrest.
Among other trial developments this week, the jury of eight women and four men heard from Detective Syreeta Teel, who testified that she and Porter spoke by phone on April 15—three days after Gray's arrest.
He broke down crying on the stand. On Friday, Dr. Carol Allan , who performed the autopsy, was the state's final witness of the day.
Defense attorney Michael Belsky, who represented the highest ranking officer charged in Baltimore, Lt. Brian Rice, tells CNN it was "inconceivable that an investigation of this magnitude could be conducted so quickly in a careful and prudent manner."
Protesters march in Minneapolis on May 26 after the killing of George Floyd.
The presiding judge for all of the Baltimore officer trials was Barry Williams, a former prosecutor who investigated police misconduct cases for the US Justice Department.
Gray was a 25-year-old black man whose neck was broken while he was handcuffed and shackled but left unrestrained in the back of a police van in April 2015.
Justice Department has also launched an investigation into allegations of widespread abuse and unlawful arrests by the department, and the officers have sued State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby, saying she intentionally filed false charges against them.
Gray's family received a $6.4 million settlement from the city.
Gene Ryan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 , said justice was served. He argued that the detectives in the case did a thorough job and he called the state's attorney's comments "outrageous" and untrue.
The day started with a pretrial hearing for Officer Garrett Miller -- who had faced assault, misconduct in office and reckless endangerment charges. But instead of pretrial motions, Chief Deputy State's Attorney Michael Schatzow told the judge that prosecutors were dropping the charges against Miller and the rest of the officers.