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A 13-year-old Northeast Baltimore boy, who police said was playing with a gun with a friend, was shot in the head and killed Monday, police said. Charles Diesmesor and a 14-year-old friend had gone into the bedroom of Charles' older brother in the 2800 block of Westfield Ave. and picked up a .380-caliber handgun, said Maj. Terrence McLarney, commander of the city police homicide unit. One of the boys took the clip out of the weapon, but they did not realize it still had a bullet in the chamber, McLarney said.

City homicide detectives were on the scene of a death in the Tuscany- Canterbury neighborhood of North Baltimore, but police said the cause appeared to be accidental. Police said they were investigating a suspicious death Wednesday afternoon in the 3900 block of Cloverhill Road, just north of the Johns Hopkins University. A short time later, a police spokesman said officials believed the victim had fallen from a ladder. Additional details were not immediately available. justin.

Baltimore City Police have identified a woman who fell down an elevator shaft of a vacant building downtown Thursday. Tracey Baird, 43, and two others had been walking inside a dark, vacant building in the 300 block of N. Howard St. around 8:30 p.m., when the witnesses who were with Baird told police she fell, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a Baltimore police spokesman. An autopsy was completed Friday, ruling the manner of death as accidental and consistent with a fall. jkanderson@baltsun.

Kingsley Flood is an Americana band by accident. Two years ago, singer Naseem Khuri, 30, was a graduate student slumming it in Cambridge and pursuing a master's in public policy at Harvard. But through a roommate ad, he wound up living next door to Nick Balkin, a 30-year-old guitarist who was then playing with a Boston band, and the two struck a friendship and a working relationship. You might say Craigslist turned Khuri into a rock 'n' roller. "I was gonna do some fancy international relations job," said Khuri, who now lives in Washington.

A 20-year-old Curtis Bay man charged with murder in the death of a man who was pushed into the Inner Harbor in 2008 was ordered held without bail Thursday morning. The decision means Wayne Black will spend the foreseeable future at Central Booking and Intake Center, and came a day after his initial bail review hearing had to be postponed when he appeared to go into shock and became unresponsive. Police say Black, whose criminal record consists of a marijuana conviction, confessed Tuesday to shoving 22-year-old Ankush Gupta into the water, and prosecutors noted at the hearing that he did not try to help rescue the victim.

City police have identified the woman shot Sunday night in the North Baltimore's Greenspring neighborhood as 20-year-old Dionndra Dugger. A police spokesman said police were investigating the possibility that the shooting was accidental. Dugger was shot in the neck at about 7:30 p.m. inside a home in the 2600 block of Quantico Ave. She was taken to Sinai Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. > > Most recent updates Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A young woman who was shot in her Northwest Baltimore home Sunday evening died at Sinai Hospital, police said. "Detectives believe the shooting may have possibly been accidental," said Agent Donny Moses, a Baltimore police spokesman. Police received a call for a shooting around 7:30 p.m. and discovered that the woman was shot in the neck while inside her home at the 2600 block of Quantico Ave. Her name has not yet been released. Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A 25-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the foot while intoxicated in a Reisterstown home early Wednesday morning, a Baltimore County Police spokesman said. Donald Burshnick, 25, of Maine, N.Y., was drunk with other people in a house in the 1500 block of Nicodemus Road, said Cpl. Mike Hill of Baltimore County Police. At about 3:30 a.m., he retrieved a loaded rifle from within the home and fired a shot into the floor, the spokesman said. "However, he struck his foot," Hill said.

A 25-year-old man accidentally shot himself in the foot in Reisterstown Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore County Police. The man was shot at 5:13 a.m. at Nicodemus Road near Whispering Oaks Court, police said. He was taken to Northwest Medical Center for treatment. Preliminary reports suggested the man may have been hunting, but further investigation indicates that is not the case, according to a county police spokesman. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

A 14-year-old boy was in critical condition Tuesday after he was accidentally shot in the head while visiting a home in the Lutherville- Timonium area, according to a Baltimore County Police spokesman. The incident, reported at 11:40 p.m. Saturday in a house on Belden Court off Rutledge Road, involved a 12-year-old girl, who lives in the house, and her 14-year-old cousin, said the spokesman, Cpl. Mike Hill. "Two juveniles got a hold of a handgun, and it discharged," Hill said.