The search continues for a third suspect in the murder of former Baltimore City Councilman Ken Harris.
Charles McGaney and Gary Collins remain were arrested Friday and charged with first-degree murder. Police believe surveillance cameras spotted McGaney, Collins and another man on the night of September 20, before Harris was killed outside of the New Haven Lounge in Northeast Baltimore. The third man is still unidentified.
It’s been almost two months since the murder, and there have been complaints from some members of Ken Harris' family, and some city officials, that the investigation was taking too long. That's not the sense you get talking to people in his old district. ‘I took exception to that;’ said Dorothy Hergenroeder-Hall. ‘I really thought that the mayor and the Baltimore City (police) commissioner were doing more than, above and beyond.’
Hergenroeder-Hall and several of her friends met Sunday night at the ‘Grand Cru’ wine bar, in the Belvedere Square shopping center. Harris was a customer at the bar and several other establishments in Belvedere Square, which is in his fourth district. Most of them expressed confidence in the police department. ‘It's not just because it's him it's because the police department is not going to just give up on somebody who's done a murder,’ said Andy Mirabole.
Investigators recovered a halloween mask worn by one of the suspects near the scene. And they had video of three men, walking around the Northwood Plaza shopping center on the night of the murder. At a news conference after the arrests on Friday, Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld said there are more arrests to be made.
‘We're very grateful for that. It doesn't bring him back of course but I'm glad that at least there was some justice,’ said Grand Cru bartender Charlie Vascellaro.
Both suspects have their preliminary hearings scheduled for next month. If you have any information on other suspects in the case, you are asked to call the Baltimore City Police Department at (410) 276-8888.
