Harford Woman Charged

Man Found Shot To Death In Joppatowne Apartment

Harford County sheriff's deputies have arrested a Joppatowne woman and charged her with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Kentucky man, whom she knew, in her apartment building Wednesday.

Harford County sheriff's deputies were called to an apartment building in the 600 block of Harborside Drive about 3:35 p.m. Wednesday. They found a man on the living room couch, dead from several gunshot wounds to the torso, from a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun.

Sgt. Dave Betz, spokesman for the sheriff's office, identified the man as Charles W. Shourds, 59.

Police found Rebecca Kinsler, 43, at a neighbor's apartment, where she was arrested without incident. She was taken to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center and treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.

Kinsler, of the 600 block of Harborside Drive, was being held without bail in the Harford County Detention Center after the state's attorney's office charged her with one count each of first- and second-degree murder, one count of first-degree assault and one count of using a handgun in the commission of a felony.