A motorist who confronted squeegee workers with a baseball bat in downtown Baltimore was gunned down in a heated confrontation, police said.

Timothy Reynolds, 48, was pronounced dead at a hospital Thursday following a late afternoon encounter with a group of youngsters cleaning car windshields for cash at Light and Conway streets near the city’s Inner Harbor, Baltimore police said.

No arrests have been made as of early Friday in the open and active investigation, a police spokeswoman told The Post.

Police Commissioner Michael Harrison told reporters Reynolds drove through the intersection and parked before hopping out of his car with a baseball bat, the Baltimore Sun reported.

Reynolds then “swung the bat” at one or more of the workers, Harrison said.

“In return, one of the squeegee workers pulled out a gun,” the chief continued.

Investigators gather evidence Thursday at the scene of a shooting in downtown Baltimore where driver Timothy Reynolds, 48, was fatally shot during a confrontation with squeegee workers.
Investigators gather evidence Thursday at the scene of a shooting in downtown Baltimore where Timothy Reynolds was fatally shot.
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No arrests have been made in the fatal shooting and is an active investigation, a police spokeswoman told The Post.
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It’s unclear how many shots were fired, but witnesses said they heard three rounds. Just hours earlier, Harrison said police confiscated a pellet gun from a squeegee worker at the same intersection, the Baltimore Sun reported.

“This is a very complex situation where someone took matters into his own hands, whatever you believe about that,” Harrison told reporters.

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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said the deadly confrontation is yet “another sad reminder” that petty beefs often escalate into violence.

“I want to be very clear – if you are on the streets of Baltimore and endanger the safety of other or turn to violence to solve your problems, we will hold you accountable,” Scott said in a statement.

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby echoed Scott’s sentiment, blasting the shooting as a “heinous act of violence” that should serve as a flashpoint fo the city.

“There are too many guns on our streets and those who willingly turn to violence as a means of resolving conflicts will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law,” Mosby said.

Baltimore’s police chief said it’s unclear whether Reynolds struck any of the squeegee workers with the bat he wielded. The group of kids ran off after the shooting and “made good of their escape,” Harrison said.

Anyone with video of the shooting is being urged to contact Baltimore police at (410) 396-2100.

Some Inner Harbor residents, meanwhile, said she and many of her neighbors have grown tired of squeegee workers – primarily teen boys who start cleaning windows often without being asked, WBFF reported.

LINK: https://nypost.com/2022/07/08/...e-confrontation/?dic



To call them workers is crazy. It's a shakedown. I do my best to avoid those intersections. I wish the cops would chase them off. Clearly the baseball bat solution is not an option.

I know the type. Workers, my ass. They basically blackmail you into paying them, sometimes slopping mud on your windshield first. If you take any action against them, even bare-handed, you are the one in trouble for assaulting them. In this case, they'll get to claim self-defense.

The "squeegee workers" in Chicago, when I lived there maybe fifty years ago, had "iffen rags."

Iffen you tipped them, they would wipe your windshield with the clean side of the rag.

Lawlessness in Baltimore. Huh. Perhaps some arrests followed by actual prosecution this time.

If only the handful of good people remaining in Baltimore would leave, we could just take off and nuke the site from orbit.

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Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby echoed Scott’s sentiment, blasting the shooting as a “heinous act of violence” that should serve as a flashpoint fo the city

Dumbass wants another "flashpoint"?
I don't think Baltimore could handle another "flashpoint".

I have been reading comments on different articles about the "squeegee workers".

Tons of complaints about forcefully washing your window and when you dont tip or dont tip enough your vehicle gets damage.

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Dumbass wants another "flashpoint"?
I don't think Baltimore could handle another "flashpoint"

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Good one!

I’m probably going to get flamed here, but you don’t legally get to swing a baseball bat at people for harassing you. I understand the sentiment, but most states don’t allow deadly force to protect property.

I’m sorry that people have to live like that, simply tolerating petty theft and harassment. I couldn’t; I’d move. I wish the authorities would clean it up. But legally you can’t escalate it, and in this case, with tragic results.

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I’m probably going to get flamed here, but you don’t legally get to swing a baseball bat at people for harassing you. I understand the sentiment, but most states don’t allow deadly force to protect property.

No flame for stating a fact, but therein lies the problem, doesn't it?

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I’m probably going to get flamed here, but you don’t legally get to swing a baseball bat at people for harassing you. I understand the sentiment, but most states don’t allow deadly force to protect property.

I’m sorry that people have to live like that, simply tolerating petty theft and harassment. I couldn’t; I’d move. I wish the authorities would clean it up. But legally you can’t escalate it, and in this case, with tragic results.

You’re not wrong, and no flames. I’m not sure that there is any legal path available other than avoidance in many, if not most, jurisdictions. Moving definitely seems like the best legal response.

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Investigators gather evidence Thursday at the scene of a shooting in downtown Baltimore where Timothy Reynolds was fatally shot.
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I remember them from the back seat of my grandmother's car in NYC in the late 60s/early 70s. They are not workers of any kind. They were, and are, hustlers, thugs, and criminals. Back then they would key your car if you didn't pay them, seems that installing a 6 ft scratch on your paint just isn't enough retribution any longer failing to let yourself be extorted. I've driven through that area more than once, not for the faint of heart, esp for chicken shits like me. I like the above solution of moving out and nuking from orbit, like in one of the Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver. I like that scene.

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I’m probably going to get flamed here, but you don’t legally get to swing a baseball bat at people for harassing you. I understand the sentiment, but most states don’t allow deadly force to protect property.

I’m sorry that people have to live like that, simply tolerating petty theft and harassment. I couldn’t; I’d move. I wish the authorities would clean it up. But legally you can’t escalate it, and in this case, with tragic results.

No flame from me, the man attacked with a deadly weapon, being shot shouldn't grant him a victim card, he got out of his car, took a deadly weapon, attacked people and got shot, case should be open and shut.

(yes you can kill with a bludgeon, happens every year)

Decades ago in L.A., near the location where Reginald Denny got his head smashed, one of the "squeegee workers" came to the car I was driving (my dad's) at a stop light and started to spray my windshield. I kept inching forward to stall his harassment, then drove off when it turned green. He tossed something at the rear of the car and left a skid mark on the trunk. Couldn't tell what he threw.

We approaching to a very dangerous precipice when the 'Squeegee Workers' are armed...

It used to be that the 'Squeegee Workers' were just homeless drug addicts/alcoholics and they were working to fund their habit...Kinda like being 'self employed'! But now homelessness is so prevalent in certain urban areas, even facilitated in the many Leftist Democrat run shitholes, that they've figured out that they no longer need to work. Now if they are feeling enterprising and want funding for their habit, they just stand on the corner with a sign! Heck, they even have shift changes...Maybe they should unionize!

So it would seem that armed thugs have now taken over the racket of the 'Squeegee Worker'...

Left car which was means of escape.

Took bat to gun fight.

Predictable result.

Is there any proof the guy REALLY swung a bat at somebody?
Could have been a murder staged to look like a self defense shooting.

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Originally posted by honestlou:
I’m probably going to get flamed here, but you don’t legally get to swing a baseball bat at people for harassing you. I understand the sentiment, but most states don’t allow deadly force to protect property.

I’m sorry that people have to live like that, simply tolerating petty theft and harassment. I couldn’t; I’d move. I wish the authorities would clean it up. But legally you can’t escalate it, and in this case, with tragic results.

No flames from me either.

I was gonna say, "don’t bring a baseball bat to a gun fight.

The article says he went through the intersection where they were, parked nearby and got out with a bat and came after them.
Making the assumption the article is mostly accurate (a risky proposition at best), it sounds like a simple case of self defense.
If the guy that shot him is not in legal possession or has other issues, I'd call this a twofer.

It sures sounds like the dead guy made a bad decision or two. But...

Is Baltimore going to address the problem or continue to pretend it doesn't exist??