Brown had recently obtained a peace order to protect her from her mother's boyfriend, who lived in the Laurel house with her, said a law enforcement source who spoke on condition that he not be named because the investigation is open. The Washington Post had earlier incorrectly reported that the protective order was directed at Brown's boyfriend.
LAUREL FATAL SHOOTINGS
Woman Had Named Convicted Killer in Protective Order
Man, Whom Officials Say They Tried Unsuccessfully to Serve, Charged With Possibly Violating His Parole
Neighbor Salim Shaikh says he had told authorities he suspected the home on Engleman Drive was a boarding house.
(Photos By Mark Gail -- The Washington Post)
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
At the time she and her baby daughter were shot to death, Lisa L. Brown was seeking court protection from a man who has been convicted of killing two people, including one of his own children, and of throwing his infant daughter out a window.
Brown, 22, and her 9-month-old daughter, Labria Fogle, were fatally shot in a rooming house in Laurel about noon Tuesday.
It appeared that Brown was feeding the baby or holding her close when both were shot in an upstairs bedroom, said a law enforcement source who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case remains under investigation.
Yesterday afternoon, Prince George's County sheriff's deputies arrested the man Brown was seeking protection from, Lawrence Banks, 53, also known as Malik Smartaney. He was arrested on a warrant charging him with a possible parole violation, said Karen V. Poe, a spokeswoman for the Maryland corrections department.
Neither Banks -- who was dating Brown's mother -- nor anyone else had been charged in the killings as of last night, county police said. As for Banks, detectives "haven't ruled him out or pinpointed him," said Cpl. Diane Richardson, a county police spokeswoman.
In 1976, Banks was sentenced to 15 years for throwing his daughter, then an infant, through a glass window. He and his wife, Vivian Banks, split soon after the incident.
Vivian Banks's badly decomposed body was found hanging in a closet in April of that year. Authorities considered the death suspicious, but no one has been charged.
The two people Banks has been convicted of murdering were killed on the same day, Nov. 19, 1991, said Sharon A.H. May, who prosecuted him for the murder of his son.
First, Banks shot and killed Michael J. Chisholm, an acquaintance, in Anne Arundel County, after a night of drinking.
Later that day, May said, Banks traveled to Baltimore in what authorities concluded was an attempt to find and kill his son and his daughter -- the same girl he had thrown through the window. The children, both teenagers, had accused him of abusing them and were living with a classmate's family, May said.
On that day, as it happened, the girl had skipped school, which, May said, probably saved her life. After looking for her at her school, Banks went to the house and found his 17-year-old son, Lawrence Foster, who had broken his leg and was home recovering.
May said Banks chased his hobbled son through the house as the youth apparently ran for an alarm system where he might have been able to press a panic button. Banks shot the boy as he crouched in a corner of the kitchen.
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