(SALISBURY, MD) – Maryland State Police homicide investigators are actively investigating the death of a twenty-one year old man in a Wicomico County apartment complex.
The body of Keonte Gaskins, 21, of no fixed address, was found at 6:45 a.m. today, in the outdoor stairwell of the Village of Mitchell Pond Apartment Complex on Parsons Road in Salisbury. Residents from the apartment complex called 9-1-1 after making the discovery. Emergency medical providers pronounced Gaskins deceased at the scene.
Investigators from the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit were called to assist the Salisbury Police Department in the investigation. Upon their arrival, Gaskins was found lying in the stairwell, fully clothed, with apparent gunshot wounds. He has been transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine the cause and manner of death.
State police continue to interview residents of the apartment complex and others who may be associated with Gaskins. One witness advised police that shots were heard shortly after midnight last night.
Anyone with information about the death of Keonte Gaskins is urged to contact the Maryland State Police Salisbury Barrack at 410-749-3101, or Crime Solvers of the Lower Eastern Shore at 410-548-1776.
58 comments:
City council woman's grandson
So Mr fireman , are you still reporting self inflicted? Dang several shots for suicide ? Hippa or not , you is wrong
Thank God the Maryland State Police was called!!
Maryland State Police are always called when homicide/wrongful death is suspected. They have a unit dedicated to investigating them.
How are those crime stats SPD CHIEF DUNCAN ?
Jake day FIRE HER.
a new police chief won't help now, this area is too far gone now, it's everyone for themselves now
yea, hows that gang thing working out for ya'll?
Kids are not held accountable at home in school and then grow up to be this guy and everyone wonders why. Parents that fail their children should lose welfare benefits.
YES it would everyone including cops know she is holding back police from doing there job.
ha the shooting was in the projects no big deal move on with this
Anonymous Anonymous said...
ha the shooting was in the projects no big deal move on with this
May 11, 2016 at 7:50 PM
I understand your sentiment but that was just about the dumbest thing you could have said. If you give people a pass just because they shoot someone you deem unworthy to live, how long will it be before you or someone else gets shot?
You won't end hate with hate.
Where's the like button
This will continue to happen until all guns are banned.
Autopsy really? He died from gunshot wounds people, no need for this added expense for the state.
8:23 this will continue as long as there is greed and hate in the drug trade. The gun didn't do it.
Your an idiot
And it will continue to happen after all guns are banned, because criminals dont follow the gun laws.
Im pretty sure if a total gun ban was enacted tens of millions of us would willingly become criminals to retain our guns.
Take your stupid comments back to your moms basement and make a hot pocket.
"Anonymous said...
This will continue to happen until all guns are banned.
May 11, 2016 at 8:23 PM"
LOL you are a special kind of stupid. Heroin and other illegal drugs are "banned" and how's that working? I don't know about around here but a lot of the guns used to kill on the streets of Chicago are being smuggled in from Mexico. If they were to ban guns in this country the Mexican cartels would be smuggling in guns by such numbers your head would spin. The inner cites would be flooded with them.
Our kids don't stand a chance in school out possibly in your own back yard it's just sad is it really your time when these accidents happen
It's the residents of these Projects that are preventing the police from doing their jobs not the chief. If they try and be proactive the residents scream racial profiling. You can't have it both ways. You either have to respect law enforcement and help them out or you can just keep on digging the graves. You can't have it both ways. The police aren't about to risk their freedom for low life thugs and the majority of the public agree. The Project residents don't respect and support the police so now they can suffer the consequences of their own actions. They grew it now they have to choice but to chew on it. They are reaping exactly what they have sown so they better not complain.
Jake's a coward.
A homicide was an accident 9 pm?
Growing up, Salisbury was a nice suburban town. It may have been boring for us youth growing up, but we had community centers, community events, for us to do. Now that I am an adult, (33 years old) all I see on y Facebook feed is homicides, shootings, robberies, and fights. I am so glad after I graduated college I was able to move out of Salisbury, my family was able to move away from Salisbury and the Eastern Shore altogether.
I pray for the victims family that the suspect is caught, and that the leaders do something to get the city under control. Where are the community leaders? Youth advocates? Churches?
Anonymous said...
This will continue to happen until all guns are banned.
May 11, 2016 at 8:23 PM
They are practically banned now with these oppressive gun laws you ignorant Democrats pass on us.
I hope some thug with a stolen gun takes the opportunity to violate you.
"Gunshots shortly after midnight..."
You'll not catch me in a stairwell in that hood shortly after midnight!
And nobody called 911 for the gunshots, either. Like that's a normal thing to have there?
The police can't do anything without the neighbors calling in when shots are fired.
Just one more dead drug dealer is all.
Salisbury = Detroit = Chicago = Obama administration
9:05 I call BS! the spd never shows up in any of these neighborhoods until there is a problem. Time for duncan to go, lousy do nothing revenue raising POS! go back to ny. things weren't this bad, until she came on board, now everything is out of control on her watch! Wake up Jake day or are you really that stupid?
An autopsy is necessary. For one, it's when the bullet(s) are retrieved for ballistics examination. Once again, we might see that they came from a stolen weapon that ties it to other crimes.
17 yo in a stairway in a thug town after midnight? thanks mom.
GUN LAWS KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE.
THESE thugs are in public schools that's why there are issues in schools best thing for them is to Drop Out.
Well said 9:05
Anonymous Anonymous said...
a new police chief won't help now, this area is too far gone now, it's everyone for themselves now
May 11, 2016 at 6:14 PM
I hate when people make ignorant comments like this. So I guess Dumbo wants us to keep the Same ole Same ole and let this area get worse.
A new Police Chief, Fire Chief, Mayor, and Council is indeed what we need. Better yet dissolve the city charter and get the state to tear down ECI!
Connect the dots ... Gaskins was related to the boy killed at the hotel. The suspects are getting life sentences and now a relative dies. HMMMM!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
An autopsy is necessary. For one, it's when the bullet(s) are retrieved for ballistics examination. Once again, we might see that they came from a stolen weapon that ties it to other crimes.
May 12, 2016 at 7:03 AM
You are correct. He was just an ignorant ASS who made an ignorant ASS comment!!
Can someone please state why SPD detectives can't investigate homicides? MSP is awesome but the city has all those detectives but apparently not capable of handling major crimes? SPD used to investigate everything in the city. Duncan has been there 5 or 6 years and still she has not developed her detectives. Ridiculous
6:13 AM - when you do call they claim it is fireworks or a transformer. The public doesn't bother anymore because the cops blow them off and do nothing about it.
Ask any E Side resident. Its a joke.
Too bad your greedy state & locals are now trying to make them stay until they are 18. Backwards. Should left it @ 16. Maybe 15, help eliminate waste.
those spd detectives investigate thefts from walmart and bicycle thefts. they'll take your report on the bicycle theft if you come to your local walmart and let them know.
You are right. Our police lack efficient response at times. I called the police on the highway to report a man driving erradicly through traffic & they looked amped to say the least. I never saw a sign of law enforcement. Matter of fact he said, "we saw em pass by..." wtf. I just knew i would seen them pulled over. Nope
Quit bashing the police. These people in these projects are reaping what they have sow so now they have no choice but to suck it up. They don't want the police around because they say they are racial profiling. They grew all these murders now they better just keep their mouths shut and as stated above-Suck It Up!
10:31 you fail to realize that if the kops aint chasing real crime then everything is moot. they'll do just what they are doing riding around bothering law abiding citizens just to generate revenue for the city. But hey if that's the kind of city you want to live in then you've accomplished your goals.
This says it all and it's all you need to know----
Body discovered at 6:45.
Shots, according to one resident- shots, plural -- were heard around SIX HOURS AGO.
No one saw anything. No one bothered with a 911 call.
And the POLICE are supposed to fix that?
These residents now have to live with the fact that SOMEONE in their midst is a killer.
And they don't want anyone to know who it is.....
In my neighborhood, someone lights a firecracker and 20 people call 911. Of course, I can also walk the street after dark and don't have to bar the windows or lock my car at night.
And I won't see ANY teenagers hanging out at 1am on a school night either.
And just about everyone I know there has a gun. Or 10-20 guns.
No one ever gets shot.
I wonder why......
Fire JAKE DAY he won't fire the police chief so FIRE HIM.
If a call came in as "suspicion" what would the police actually get out of their cars to look for? Even if a call came in as "shots fired" and an officer rides through the area but sees nothing...do you actually expect him to get out of his car and walk around a neighborhood like that? Is anyone forgetting the social climate right now? People ambushing cops? Nah...if I was working that sector, I wouldn't get out of my car either. Too mush risk involved there.
Jakes a worthless piece of garbage
I think he's really that stupid
They have more important things to investigate like the turf war between the ice cream trucks and all the shop lifting at big Muir Bodas Walmart.
Ignorant
Jake you really do need to get a hand on things. You can not stop this type of crime but I heard in the last two weeks SPD is losing another 7 officers. I hate to say it but Duncan needs to go. All appointed brass demoted. Let the new chief rebuild the command. The citizens are allowing the city to lose millions of dollars in training and retention revenue.
There is something seriously wrong at S.P.D.
What happened to the computer system she and the Gayor purchased that predicts crime trends. I am actually crying I am laughing so hard about that fiasco. Either the Chief was afraid of the Gayor or it was her idea. The cost of that program could have purchased five patrol vehicles. Idiots at the top is causing bleeding at the bottom.
Wake up Day Rome is burning.
SPD detectives are too overwhelmed with a large case load. If you were in charge of the homicide all the other cases would fall even more behind. I also agree the chief needs to move back to her home. She is not what we need here. Make it all one sheriff's Office and let Mike lewis lead.
There seems to be a direct correlation, at least locally, between having a made up, non-traditional first name and ending up a murder victim.
And there's a further correlation in that the victim is often killed by a person with a made up, non-traditional first name.
Go figure.
It sound like everyone is blaming and pointing fingers at others..Salisbury residents need ro come together and help stop the violence..my prayers are with everyone...speak positive..
USELESS unless the police are allowed to do there JOBS.
There should probably be a multimillion dollar study by some university. Or three.
"There seems to be a direct correlation, at least locally, between having a made up, non-traditional first name and ending up a murder victim.
And there's a further correlation in that the victim is often killed by a person with a made up, non-traditional first name."
True! But I would say that the second one might be stronger than the first.
The violence is within them, but it was put there.
They weren't born with it in them, they were taught to have it.
There is where the "stop the violence" should start, with everything that touches a baby's ear and eye and soul.
He was 21 years old or do we not watch the news? Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but to blame the mother is wrong! He was grown! His mother works very hard and to be honest he wasn't a bad person maybe bad ways as we all do whether lawful or the later. Everyone is sitting in their comfy little lofts being racist and unsympathetic instead of thinking of the families grief! I have white friends who do things that you sit on here and judge blacks for doing if not worse, funny thing is its truly not about color as I love them and encourage them to do better! Hate and blame is not the answer!
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