Metro Digest

Baltimore City: Leakin Park

Man found fatally shot An unidentified man was found dead early yesterday in a parking lot at Leakin Park in West Baltimore from an apparent gunshot wound to the head, city police said. Police responded to a call about 7:30 a.m. and found the man lying near the park's restrooms off Franklintown Road, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy, Moses said.

Justin Fenton

Baltimore County: Towson

Fire damages university lab A chemical reaction among materials in a storage closet was suspected as the cause of a fire yesterday morning that damaged a Towson University chemistry laboratory, authorities said. Automatic sprinklers extinguished the fire on the fifth floor of Smith Hall before firefighters arrived about 9:30 a.m., said Baltimore County Fire Department Capt. Steve Gisriel.

Justin Fenton