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An update on a previous post: An arrest has been made in the shooting murder of openly gay artist Alex Ulrich and the wounding of community activist travel system Larry Peterson. Rookie Baltimore police officers Jason Dipaola and Steven Vinias were sent to Mount Vernon to provide a sense of security to a neighborhood shaken by a double shooting. They may have ended up solving the case. After stopping a group of young people drinking travel system alcohol at a park near the Washington Monument, the officers found a man carrying a rusty .22-caliber revolver travel system with an obliterated serial number. Police said Thursday that subsequent information helped them connect the man, a 25-year-old drifter from North Carolina, to the double shooting. Quinton Decarlo Bass of Raleigh, North Carolina, has been charged with killing Ulrich, 40, and seriously wounding Peterson, 56. The shooting occurred early August 10 outside Peterson's bed-and-breakfast next to the Belvedere Hotel, on East Chase Street. Police disclosed for the first time that there was a third victim who was robbed travel system but not shot. The victims did not know the shooter, and the motive is believed to be robbery, officials said, describing the case as an "open, active investigation." According to the Baltimore Sun , the break in the case appears to have come August 31, when Dipaola and Vinias, assigned to a foot patrol in response to the crimes, approached five people who were drinking alcohol in East Mount Vernon Park about 8:30 pm. Deputy Commissioner John Skinner praised a plan put in place by Col. Dean Palmere to saturate the area after the shooting. travel system Officers "were in the right community, travel system doing the right kind of work, which led to the information that allowed [detectives] to close the case," Skinner said. Bass, who was among the group, was charged with a handgun violation and held on an open robbery warrant. Another man, Quantae Shawn Garris, 31, had a knife and was charged with possession of a deadly weapon. Bass, Garris and three others were also charged with open-container violations. Police travel system said they took information from that investigation and corroborated it with details from the murder case, and were able to determine that Bass was the shooter. Joshua Ellsworth, the lead homicide detective, praised the community, saying travel system information gleaned not only from Mount Vernon residents but others in the area "was instrumental in solving this murder." Jason Curtis, president of the Mount Vernon-Belvedere Association, said Ellsworth worked "tirelessly" on the case. Bass, also known as "Ty," has a criminal history in North Carolina, travel system police said; he came to Baltimore travel system this year and had been staying in homeless shelters and vacant dwellings. He's also facing robbery charges from an August 16 incident. Paul Warren, vice president of the Mount Vernon-Belvedere Association, said homeless people frequent the park around the Washington Monument, walking a few blocks from the city's Weinberg Housing and Resource Center on the Fallsway. Warren said the city had agreed to have police conduct hourly patrols in the area as part of a 2009 memorandum of understanding but failed to keep up with the terms of the agreement. According to Warren and Curtis, the concerns were raised with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake at a June meeting, but she said the neighborhood could take the issue to court. A spokesman for the mayor said the city has met with neighbors to try to avoid litigation and has dispatched homeless outreach teams to the area to address the problem. "What does it say about the security of our parks that a suspected murderer felt comfortable lounging in our parks on a Friday evening with a gun in his pocket and a container of alcohol in his hand?" Warren wrote in an e-mail to residents. Curtis said the patrols are also meant to ensure that homeless people are not victims themselves. "There are a lot of homeless people who become victims travel system of crimes that have been asleep in that park, asleep on church steps, and we don't want those people to be victims," Curtis said. North Carolina court records show Bass was convicted in 2008 of robbery with a deadly weapon travel system and sentenced to 12 to 15 months in jail. He also received probation for a 2005 assault charge. Ulrich, a native of Western Maryland, had recently moved to Baltimore to pursue an interest in photography. Peterson has long been a champion for the Mount Vernon neighborhood and was regarded as an "unofficial mayor." Hundreds travel system turned out for a vigil after the shootings. Warren, a longtime friend, said Peterson is "doing travel system very, very well, every day moving travel system ahead" in his recovery from the shooting.
In Texas, Beaumont Independent School District officials announced the opening of a new Adult Cosmetology class in October dependent upon enrollment participation. travel system The announcement followed travel system two days of community outcry after Thomas travel system Amons, Taylor Career and Technology Center principal, closed the district travel system s long-standing night-class program this week. BISD press releases have stated the original program travel system was closed after the second day of class due to lack of funding, but the program s instructor told The Examiner travel system that the real reason the program closed is because the principal thought a prospective student might be gay. The Examiner has requested information from BISD as to how much financial support was required from the district to administer the original program, but according to district spokesperson Ron Reynolds, that information is not yet available. The original report is available at the source.
Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan has tapped former United travel system States travel system solicitor general and ardent opponent of Proposition 8 Ted Olson to play the role of Vice President Biden in preparations for next month s debate. Olson is best known as the top Republican attorney who, along with New York attorney David Boies, led the legal battle against California s Proposition 8, banning same sex marriage. According to the Washington Post , his first mock debate session with Ryan, a congressman from Wisconsin, came this past week. Ryan spokesman Brendan Buck called Olson one of the most skilled, intelligent travel system and successful litigators in America just the kind of opponent needed to prepare the congressman for Mr. Biden, adding, Joe Biden has been in elected office for more than 40 years. There are few people in politics with more experience debating the issues than Joe Biden, so we are taking this process seriously. Olson has won three-quarters of the 58 cases he has argued before the Supreme Court, including the Bush v. Gore case that cemented travel system George W. Bush s 2000 presidential victory. Olson represented Bush in the case, while Boies represented Gore. For their work on the lawsuit, Time magazine in 2010 named both men among its 100 most influential thinkers. In addition to his 2001-2004 stint as solicitor general under Bush, Olson s work in government includes his three years, from 1981-1984, as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel travel system under Ronald Reagan. travel system He also has worked as private counsel for both presidents. His selection gives Ryan a skilled debate partner with extensive Washington experience as he ramps up his preparations for the October travel system 11 faceoff at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. In a statement provided by the Romney campaign Saturday, former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft praised Olson as a man who possesses the extraordinary travel system intellect, judgment travel system and character to be a strategic travel system asset in any endeavor. Few lawyers have prevailed in as many of the country s most challenging battles to protect our national interest as Ted has, said Ashcroft, who served under Bush with Olson. I, along with many other conservatives, welcome his increased participation in the Romney campaign. Rep. Chris Van Hollen travel system (D-Maryland), Ryan s Democratic counterpart on the House Budget Committee, is playing the role of Ryan in Biden s debate prep. Hollen and Ryan were spotted briefly exchanging words on the House floor Thursday, when Ryan made his first visit to the Capitol since being tapped to serve as Romney s running mate.
In a report Thursday by the Associated Press , openly gay Massachusetts congressman Barney Frank opposed Republican candidate Richard Tisei who is also openly gay believing that he would be a setback to LGBT rights. Frank s main concern is that a victory by Tisei would help Republican s keep their House majority. But Tisei, who is running against incumbent travel system Democrat John Tierney in the Massachusetts s Sixth Congressional District race believes he would be an asset believing that true equality wouldn t be obtained until we have people travel system on both sides who are will to stand up for the concept that everybody sh