Carroll Fitzgerald, former Baltimore council member wounded in 1976 shooting, dead at 89

BALTIMORE (AP) — Carroll J. “Fitz” Fitzgerald, a former Baltimore City Council member who survived a 1976 shooting rampage at a temporary City Hall office, has died. He was 89.

The Baltimore Sun reports that Fitzgerald died July 8 of a pulmonary embolism at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.

Fitzgerald was wounded in a 1976 shooting by Charles A. Hopkins in temporary rented offices during renovations at City Hall.

Hopkins headed for then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer’s office and shot mayoral aide Kathleen Nolan in the neck. Hopkins then took Joanne McQuade, another mayoral aide, hostage and pushed her along at gunpoint. McQuade broke loose and ran, while Hopkins opened fire, killing Council member Dominic Leone and wounding four others, including Fitzgerald.

“He did not talk about it, but would occasionally refer to it, but didn’t talk about it all that much,” said a son, Thomas J. Fitzgerald, of Parkville.

Council member J. Joseph Curran Sr., who had a heart attack during the encounter, died within a year.

In 1977, a jury found Mr. Hopkins not guilty by reason of insanity, and he was committed to the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center.

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