Crime & Safety
Former UMD Championship Team Member Plunges to Death
Baltimore County police identified Earl Badu as the man who jumped from I-695 Thursday.

Earl Badu, 33, a member of the University of Maryland’s 2002 basketball national championship team, has been indentified as the man who died Thursday after jumping from Interstate 695 into a construction area on Interstate 95 near Perry Hall.
Baltimore County police identified Badu as the jumper in an email on Saturday.
According to University of Maryland’s athletic site, Badu was a member of the school’s 2002 National Championship team after walking onto the squad in the fall of 1998.
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Badu, a graduate of St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, died from his injuries at Bay View Medical Center.
According to electronic court records, Badu, who listed a PO Box in Bethesda as his address, was convicted of passing a bad check on Sept. 21.
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