Montgomery Community Media

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. In Montgomery County, it is an opportunity for leaders and residents to discuss prevention, education and how victims can get help. On Monday, county leaders, public safety officials and community members gathered outside the Montgomery County Family Justice Center in Rockville for an awareness month kickoff event. They […]

Montgomery County police officers are investigating a double shooting that occurred on Sunday morning in Germantown as a domestic-related case. It happened in the 19500 block of Frederick Road shortly before 8 a.m. on Oct. 9. Police said dispatchers received a 9-1-1 call from a woman stating she had been shot by her husband. Police […]

Montgomery County Police have arrested 22-year-old Randolph Middlebrook for first degree assault. According to police, officers responded to the 11200 block of Valley Bend Drive for a domestic violence call at 9:15 p.m. on Aug. 18. Police said the victim called 9-1-1 and stated that her boyfriend had struck her in head with a firearm […]

UPDATED, June 2, 11 a.m. – Montgomery County Police have released the name of the victim of the homicide in Germantown. Mariam Folashade Adebayo, 24, was killed Monday night. Police have arrested her alleged boyfriend Donald Wayne Bricker, Jr., 27 of Hagerstown. Bricker is still in the hospital being treated for injuries sustained when his car […]

UPDATED: A barricade situation ended peacefully when a Gaithersburg man surrendered after a three-hour standoff with police. Montgomery County Police report that a 53-year-old Jeffrey Allan Flaherty finally surrendered to police after initial reports he threatened a woman and her family and then barricaded himself in his home off Maryland Avenue. Police worked from about 7:15 p.m. […]

Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder announced grants to 12 programs across the country to target the urgent need to reduce domestic violence homicides. They were joined at the Montgomery County Executive Office Building in Rockville by dozens of Maryland law enforcement officers who have been at the forefront of domestic violence […]