Crime & Safety
Pitcairn Family Still Coping with Loss
Stephen Pitcairn, 23, was stabbed to death during a robbery as he walked to his Charles Village home.
The family of Stephen Pitcairn is still trying to come to terms with his murder more than a year after he was stabbed to death during a robbery in Charles Village, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Gwen Pitcairn, Stephen Pitcairn’s mother, still hasn’t been able to complete the headstone for her son in the small Florida town where he was buried.
"I started it and then, oh, I don't know, it just got really hard," Gwen Pitcairn told the newspaper. "How do I describe Stephen in a few words?"
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Gwen Pitcairn was the first witness for the prosecution during the trial of the man convicted of killing 23-year-old Stephen Pitcairn. She was on the phone with Stephen Pitcairn, a Hopkins' researcher, as he walked from Penn Station to his home in Charles Village. She heard the confrontation that ended with Stephen Pitcairn being stabbed in the 2600 block of St. Paul Street.
On Aug. 17 John Wagner was convicted of first-degree murder.
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He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 21.
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