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Baltimore police say Marquis Johnson was arrested Nov. 8 and charged with first-degree murder. The Daily Voice says officers encountered him the following day.

The Baltimore Police Department release, November 9, 2026, at 12:31 p.m., heads the item Marquise Johnson and then says Marquis Johnson, 37, was arrested in the 2200 block of Presstman Street. CBS Baltimore, by Bryan Lynn, at 12:29 p.m. EST the same day, says he was charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault, and related charges. The Daily Voice, at 12:53 p.m., says Marquis Jamal Johnson.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·

Booking photo of Marquis Johnson
Photo: Baltimore Police Department

Nov. 8, on the police release, and the following day after a Friday attack, on the Daily Voice, are not the same arrest day. First-Degree Murder, on the release, and first-degree murder plus first-degree assault and related charges, on CBS Baltimore, are not the same charge list. A charge is not a conviction. The release says the investigation is still open, including a carjacking question CBS Baltimore does not print.

The Baltimore Police Department's media update, November 9, 2026, at 12:31 p.m., with no zone on that clock, is headed Northeast District Homicide Arrest and then Marquise Johnson. The body says homicide detectives have arrested 37-year-old Marquis Johnson of Baltimore. Marquise, in the heading, and Marquis, in the body, are not the same spelling, and they are on the same release. It says that on November 8, 2026, Western District officers located and arrested Johnson in the 2200 block of Presstman Street, that he was wanted in connection with the murder of 36-year-old Tiera Gamble, which occurred on November 6, 2026, in the 5600 block of Loch Raven Boulevard, and that he was transported to Central Booking, where he was charged with First-Degree Murder. The Daily Voice, by Zak Failla, 11/09/2026 at 12:53 p.m., with no zone on that clock, says Marquis Jamal Johnson, 37, of Baltimore, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Tiera Gamble, 36. Jamal, and his wife, are the Daily Voice. They are not in the release. CBS Baltimore, by Bryan Lynn, November 9, 2026, at 12:29 p.m. EST, says a man identified by police as 37-year-old Marquis Johnson, and it calls him her husband. Husband, on CBS Baltimore, and his wife, on the Daily Voice, are not the same sentence, and the release does not print either. CBS Baltimore says he has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and related charges, according to the court documents. First-degree assault and related charges, on CBS Baltimore, are not on the release, which prints First-Degree Murder, and they are not on the Daily Voice charge sentence, which prints first-degree murder. The Daily Voice says the attack was on Friday, Nov. 6, and that the following day officers responding to a residential alarm on Presstman Street encountered Johnson at a home he shared with Gamble. The following day after Friday, Nov. 6, is not November 8. November 8, and the 2200 block, and Western District officers, and Central Booking, are the release. Presstman Street without the 2200 block, and a residential alarm, and a home he shared with Gamble, are the Daily Voice. CBS Baltimore says he was taken into custody at the residence. It does not print November 8, and it does not print Presstman Street.

Where she was found, and when, are not one clock. The release says the murder of Tiera Gamble occurred on November 6, 2026, in the 5600 block of Loch Raven Boulevard. It does not print a hospital, a parking lot, a stabbing, or an hour. CBS Baltimore says an employee of Baltimore's MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital was allegedly stabbed to death by her husband in the parking lot of the hospital, according to police and court documents, and that the stabbing happened Friday morning. Allegedly, in that sentence, is CBS Baltimore's word. It says the death of hospital employee Tiera Gamble was said by a statement shared by the Baltimore Police Department. That statement, as CBS Baltimore describes it, is not the Nov. 9 release read here, which does not say stabbed and does not say the hospital. CBS Baltimore then says, "Gamble was identified charging documents shared with CBS News Baltimore as the executive assistant to the director of psychological services at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital." Identified charging documents, with no word between identified and charging, is the sentence on that page. The Daily Voice says she was an executive assistant to the hospital's director of psychological services, and that she was attacked in the parking lot of MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. The job title is on CBS Baltimore and on the Daily Voice. It is not on the release. CBS Baltimore says officers were called to the hospital around 8 a.m. on a report of a stabbing, that officers found doctors treating an adult woman for stab wounds, and that she was pronounced dead of her injuries at the hospital. The Daily Voice says she was found suffering from multiple stab wounds shortly after 8:20 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 8:48 a.m. Around 8 a.m., on CBS Baltimore, and shortly after 8:20 a.m., on the Daily Voice, are not the same call time. Pronounced dead of her injuries, with no clock, on CBS Baltimore, and pronounced dead at 8:48 a.m., on the Daily Voice, are not the same sentence. Stab wounds, on CBS Baltimore's account of what officers found, and multiple stab wounds, on the Daily Voice, and no weapon and no wound on the release, are not the same description.

What a witness saw is not one sentence, and the knife is not in one place. CBS Baltimore says police say a witness saw Gamble fall out of the front driver's seat of a car in the lower parking lot of Good Samaritan Hospital, and that a man identified as Johnson was then seen getting out of the vehicle's passenger seat, switching to the driver's seat, and driving off, according to the charging documents. It quotes the charging documents: "Gamble was then observed running several feet before collapsing, where she was observed to be suffering from apparent lacerations." The Daily Voice says that according to court documents a witness saw Gamble fall from the driver's seat of a dark-colored sedan before a man climbed out of the passenger side, got behind the wheel, and drove away, and that Gamble managed to run several feet before collapsing. Fall out of the front driver's seat, on CBS Baltimore, and fall from the driver's seat, on the Daily Voice, are not the same verb. A car, and the lower parking lot, on CBS Baltimore, and a dark-colored sedan, on the Daily Voice, are not the same vehicle line. Apparent lacerations, in the CBS Baltimore quotation, and multiple stab wounds, in the Daily Voice's lede, are not the same injury word. The Daily Voice says family members told investigators that Johnson regularly accompanied his wife on her morning commute in her Honda Insight, which was captured on hospital surveillance footage leaving the property after the stabbing, and that the vehicle was found abandoned elsewhere in Baltimore later that afternoon. Honda Insight, and abandoned elsewhere, are the Daily Voice. CBS Baltimore says that after reviewing surveillance footage taken at the parking garage, police obtained a search warrant for a residence believed to have been shared between Gamble and Johnson. A parking garage, on CBS Baltimore, and hospital surveillance footage, on the Daily Voice, are not the same camera line. The release does not print a car, a witness, or footage. CBS Baltimore says investigators recovered a kitchen knife set that matched the description of the large kitchen knife found near Gamble's body. The Daily Voice says a search turned up a kitchen knife set matching the description of a knife recovered from Gamble's body, according to the charging documents. Near Gamble's body, on CBS Baltimore, and recovered from Gamble's body, on the Daily Voice, are not the same place. Both say that at the arrest he was wearing distinctive blue tennis shoes that, on CBS Baltimore, appeared to match the shoes worn by the suspect in surveillance footage, and that, on the Daily Voice, linked him to surveillance footage. Appeared to match, and linked, are not the same verb. The Daily Voice says detectives observed injuries to both of Johnson's hands that they believed could have been sustained during a stabbing, and that investigators recovered Gamble's cellphone behind an apartment complex after relatives tried calling Johnson and a woman answered, saying she had found it there. The hands and the cellphone are the Daily Voice. They are not on the CBS Baltimore story fetched here, and they are not on the release. The release says the investigation remains ongoing as detectives continue to investigate Johnson's possible involvement in additional violent crimes, including a carjacking and attempted carjacking committed while he was attempting to elude police. The Daily Voice says Baltimore Police said detectives are investigating whether he was involved in other violent crimes, including a carjacking and attempted carjacking while attempting to evade police, and that no additional charges related to those incidents were announced. Possible involvement, on the release, and whether he was involved, with no additional charges announced, on the Daily Voice, are not the same status. CBS Baltimore does not print the carjacking. It prints a request to call police at 410-396-2100, and it prints that number again with no hyphens, or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup. The release's media line is 410-396-2012. Those are not the same number. The first-degree murder charge is a charge. It is not a conviction. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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