Williams v. Mayor of Baltimore

CATHELL, Judge.

On November 6, 1996, petitioners, Mary Williams et al., 1 brought this negligence action in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against the State of Maryland, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and Baltimore City Police Officer Edward Colbert, under the Maryland Tort Claims Act and the Local Government Tort Claims Act. The claim arose out of a domestic violence incident in which Gerald Watkins shot and partially paralyzed Mary Williams, his girlfriend’s mother, shot and killed Valerie Williams, his girlfriend and mother of his child, and then shot and killed himself. On…