Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County has had than double the number of reported homicides in 2014 than in 2013. Last year, there were 19 homicides. That compares to 8 in 2013. But, Capt. Darren Francke, director of the department’s Major Crimes Division, said the number is not alarming. He talks about the county’s homicide rate in this MyMcMedia […]

In a statement issued on the last day of 2014, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley said he plans to commute four inmates sentenced to death in Maryland to life sentences without the possibility of parole. You can read the Governor’s Dec. 31 statement below: “In a representative government, state executions make every citizen a party to […]

UPDATED: Police are investigating the death of a man in the Bel Pre area of Silver Spring now considered a homicide. Montgomery County Police responded to the 14600 block of King Lear Court at about 3:36 p.m. were they say a relative found a man in his 30s dead inside the home. Police say the […]

UPDATED 12-8.14 Detectives from Montgomery County Police Department’s Major Crimes-Homicide Division are investigating a death that was discovered on Dec. 6 in the 2300 block of Eagle Rock Place in the Layhill area of Silver Spring and police say it is a homicide investigation. According to a police account, at 10:47 a.m. the Emergency Communications […]

UPDATED, Dec. 2, 11:50 a.m. – Montgomery County Police are investigating the death of a woman in Bethesda as a homicide. According to police, the woman has trauma to her torso. Police continue to investigate. Original – Montgomery County Police are investigating what they are calling a “suspicious death” in a apartment building in Bethesda. […]

Richard Jaeggi, the beloved executive director of Gandhi Bridgade, passed away on May 25. The nonprofit youth media organization that he led posted an announcement of his death on its Facebook page. You can read the note here. Funeral arrangements have not been announced to date but we are told that Gandhi Brigade’s upcoming Youth […]

A body discovered in a Gaithersburg retention pond Tuesday (May 21) has been identified as a man missing since May 16, according to police. With the assistance of family members, Montgomery County Police confirm that the body of Maurice Darnell Munford, Jr., 22, of the 13800 block of Bailiwick Terrace in Germantown was discovered by […]

“All of the officials and employees of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments and the Transportation Planning Board are devastated by the loss of our colleague, Ron Kirby. Dr. Kirby, one of the region’s leading experts on transportation planning, was a key figure in all aspects of our work on regional planning and collaboration.  He […]

Montgomery County police are investigating a fatal, single-vehicle collision that occurred shortly after 3 a.m. on June 19. According to police, 4th District officers responded to the intersection of Veirs Mill Road and Turkey Branch Parkway for the report of a single-vehicle collision. Police said the preliminary investigation revealed that a 2013 Honda Accord was […]

UPDATED The Medical Examiner has determined that a man found bleeding outside All Saints Church in Chevy Chase on May 30 died of natural causes. Police are no longer investigating the case as a suspicious death. Police identified the man as Colbert Pleze, 59, of the 1500 block of Butler Street in southeast, Washington, D.C. […]