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i HE CAPITAL Fri., Nov. 23,1984 13Defendant’s sister helped victimBy JOANNA RAMEY Staff WriterAfter being held at gunpoint in an Annapolis graveyard, a Baltimore woman ironically sought help at the home of one of two men now on trial for her assault and the shooting of an Episcopalian priest.The victim, Caroline Janofsky, and the sister of one of the defendants each testified Wednesday in the trial of Thomas “Floods Brown and Roland “Squiggy” Blake, both charged with robbery and assault with intent to murder in the July 4 incident.In the trial’s second day, Ms. Janofsky’s testimony highlighted the coincidental contact between the two victims and their alleged assailantsMs. Janofsky and the Rev. William Redmon, also of Baltimore,were early for a 3 p,m. appointment when they stopped to tour the cemetery. The pair parked Ms. Janofsky’s Dodge Charger in .front of 115 Northwest St., the home of Brown.Valerie Brown, a sister of the codefendant, testified that within 15 minutes she heard a gunshot and SdW Blake running from St. Anne’s Cemetery carrying a stocking mask and handgun.Blake hopped in the Dodge Charger and drove down the street, where he picked up a man wearing a red shirt, Ms Brown testified. »The Rev Redmon was shot in the back that day in the cemetery and plunged into College Creek, where he swam to escape his assailant The Baltimore priest identified Brown in a photographic lineup as the gunman.Brown’s sister told the six-man, six-woman jury that her brother and Blake were earlier standing in the kitchen looking at the graveyard.Brown, she said, was wearing a red footbaU jersey.Ms. Bi^own, 21, said that her family’s home was Blake’s hangout, where he called later Independence Day to boast “he snuck up behind (the couple) with his ace (partner),”Ms. Brown also identified a handgun, recovered by police when arresting her brother in Ms. Janofsky’s car, as belonging to Blake.“You’re not trying to proteet your brother and say that Roland Blake was responsible for the crime?” asked Blake’s attorney, public defender Stephen Harris. You're saying that Roland Blake shot the priest and hit (the woman) in the head?”Ms. Brown denied the accusation.After seeing Blake flee, Ms. Brown said she ran outside and saw a screaming woman running toward her. She brought the woman, Ms. Janofsky, inside and police were summoned.“It was pretty darn close,” said Ms. Janofsky, demonstrating the proximity of the gun with an index finger pointed at the head of a Circuit Court clerk.“He (one of the men) hit me on the side of the head and I fell... I was scared out of my mind/’ Ms. Janofsky testified. I got up and I ran into some bushes because I didn’t know whether he was going to come back.”The trial continues Monday.
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Capital Gazette
Annapolis, Maryland, US
Fri, Nov 23, 1984
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