ABOUT THE PROJECT
On the morning of Aug. 1, officers with the Baltimore County Police Department arrived at the Randallstown apartment of Korryn Gaines to serve warrants on her and her fiance, Kareem Courtney. After a standoff that lasted about six hours, Gaines was dead from police gunfire. County prosecutors would rule the shooting justified, and no charges would be filed against officers.
Through a public records request, The Baltimore Sun obtained a trove of evidence in the case. The case file includes officer statements, police radio chatter, and crime scene photographs, as well as videos and audio recordings taken by Gaines during the standoff.
MY ROLE
As the multimedia editor for the project, I combed through the entire case file identifying key pieces of evidence including crime scene photos, police audio communications, and other documents to piece together the timeline of the standoff. Working with the interactives team, we compiled all the individual components together in a slide based format so users could see the evidence that correlated to important time pegs.
AWARDS
2016 Society of News Design, Single Subject Story, Finalist
