Police identify victims of two separate homicides
Police have identified two recent homicide victims. Kevin Rouzer, who turned 29 Sunday, was found shot about 10:30 p.m. that night in a minivan parked in the 1700 block of N. Broadway in the Broadway East community. Rouzer had been shot at least once in the head and died a short time later at a hospital, police said. Court records show Rouzer, also known as Kevin McDowell, had a long criminal record. He was indicted last month on charges of drug distribution. He pleaded guilty to drug possession charges in February 2007, receiving a 10-year sentence with all but about six months suspended and three years probation. In 2004, he also faced first-degree murder charges that were later dropped. Police also identified a teenager found shot in a Northwest Baltimore alley early Friday. About 1:17 a.m., an officer was flagged down by a woman who said she had seen a person in the alley behind the 5300 block of Cordelia Ave., police said. The officer found 17-year-old Jarell Laws unresponsive, with an apparent gunshot wound to the head, according to police.
Justin Fenton
Woman, hit by falling tree outside condominium, dies
A woman was killed yesterday afternoon when she was struck by a falling tree while emptying trash outside a Pikesville condominium, said a spokeswoman for the county Fire Department. The woman's name was withheld by police pending notification of her family, said Elise Armacost, the spokeswoman. Armacost said that about 4:30 p.m., the woman was emptying trash behind the condo in the first block of Greenwich Place when a large dead oak tree fell, trapping the woman. Armacost said someone called 911 and that firefighters from the Pikesville station arrived a few minutes later and removed the woman from beneath the tree. An ambulance crew pronounced her dead at the scene. Armacost said that police were investigating the woman's death.
Jennifer McMenamin
Worker seriously injured in forklift accident
A 42-year-old Baltimore man was seriously injured yesterday morning at a welding company in Arbutus when the forklift he was operating tipped over, fire and police officials said. Denson Bonilla Suaza was moving steel materials on pallets outside of Winkler's Inc., in the 4300 block of Southwestern Blvd., when the accident occurred at 10:30 a.m. His lower body was pinned beneath the machinery and steel for at least 20 minutes before emergency crews were able to free him, said Elise Armacost, a Baltimore County Fire Department spokeswoman. He was rushed to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in serious condition with injuries to his legs, Armacost said.
