Every town has that one house, the one where the neighbors are used to seeing passing cars slow down and look to see where...it....happened.
This house is in the news again; it's in the leafy Cockeysville northern suburb...where...it...happened twice.
The young man in the lower right is Nicholas Browning, currently a guest of the Maryland Department of Corrections for his next four lifetimes. In 2008, Browning killed his father, mother, and two younger brothers in this house, which was sold by whomever inherited it in 2010.
At age 15, young Nicholas, an honors student at Dulaney High, had grown tired of his parents telling him what to do, and did not want to share in his expected inheritance, so he ended the lives of the other members of his family as they slept.
The new family in the house was the kin of David Emory Linthicum, seen here glowering in the upper left. In 2023, his father called police for help as David became violent in the house. David fired at officers responding to the call, wounding one, before shooting another officer on a nearby road and carjacking his vehicle. One of the injured officers was on life support for some time due to gunshots to his face, arms and back.
Linthicum was captured two days later up in Harford County, and now, as his trial begins, his attorneys are complaining that the prosecutors know the police and so it's unfair.
Well, son, it says here that prosecutors tend to know police. They spend a lot of time working together to arrange for prison sentences for people who kill their families or shoot police.
Go watch an old "Law & Order" and tell me you don't like it that Lennie Briscoe and Jack McCoy might go grab a sandwich one night.
Enjoy your time in the calaboose, and re-think your definition of "fair."
Meanwhile, if that house goes up for sale again, who would want to live there?
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