By Julie Bykowicz and Gus G. Sentementes
Sun reporters
Originally published July 7, 2007
Mayor Sheila Dixon requested that a convicted felon with pending handgun charges be allowed to leave jail to attend his son's funeral yesterday -- offering to have city police officers escort him to it.Charles Murel, 20, has three firearms charges in a case scheduled for trial this month in Baltimore Circuit Court and was convicted in 2005 of carjacking, court records show.
He is being held on a $150,000 bail at Baltimore's Central Booking and Intake Facility.Murel's son, Charles Murel III, 3, was killed June 30 when two cars collided and ricocheted into him and a woman in the 1900 block of W. Lanvale St.Saying Murel was too dangerous, a judge denied Thursday his request to attend the funeral. But Dixon's chief of staff, Otis Rolley III, continued to work for the temporary release.
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