Annapolis Police

President Barack Obama slipped into Annapolis Wednesday for a private meeting with U.S. Senate Democrats focused on the nation's latest fiscal crisis - a visit that temporarily closed roads and a handful of businesses a mile from the Maryland State House. The president met for about two hours with senators gathered at the Westin Annapolis for their annual retreat. The meeting, which began Tuesday, was an opportunity for lawmakers to discuss strategy for the coming year and also to meet with Gov. Martin O'Malley, who many believe will seek the party's presidential nomination in 2016.

A man is dead and a woman is in critical condition Monday after a possible domestic altercation at an Annapolis business, police said. At 1 a.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 300 block of Harry S. Truman Parkway where they found Tracy Lynn West, 43, and her estranged husband, Calvin Cofield, 50, suffering from gunshot wounds, said Anne Arundel County Lt. Francis Tewey. West, of Crownsville, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in critical condition. Cofield, of the 7200 block of High Bridge Road in Bowie, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man was carjacked and assaulted in Annapolis on Thursday morning, and his car was later found abandoned, said Annapolis police on Friday Officials said that the victim was sitting in his car on the 700 block of Newtowne Drive at about 10:20 a.m., when two unknown males approached the vehicle, with one opening the passenger-side door and removing the keys from the ignition. The victim tried to retrieve his keys and was hit in the face, police said, who said that the victim then ran toward nearby Juliana Circle in fear of his safety.

Annapolis police are looking for Clarence Eugene Johnson III, after obtaining a warrant charging him with first-degree murder of a Brooklyn man and the shooting of a woman Wednesday night in Robinwood public housing community in the city. Joseph Louis Johnson III, 33, was killed and Jana Jackson, 31, was critically wounded in the shootings that occurred in the 1400 block of Tyler Ave. Jackson was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, which she is critical condition, police said.

The owner of the life-sized stuffed goat that has served as the unofficial mascot for the Naval Academy Class of 1961 is offering a $500 reward for information that leads Annapolis police to identify a person in a photo and for information leading to the return of the stuffed billy goat. Dubbed Fearless, the billy goat has stood atop Ron Carlberg's SUV during tailgating before Navy games, and children ask to pet it. But the stuffed animal, bought several years ago by Carlberg's wife, vanished from the back of the couple's car during an Oct. 20 Navy-Indiana game.

Annapolis police have charged a 28-year-old city resident with assault in connection with a stabbing Thursday night. Police said Lionel McDaniel stabbed a 30-year-old man in the neck. McDaniel is being held at the Jennifer Road Detention Center on $400,000 bond. The incident occurred at 10:45 p.m. in the 1300 block of Tyler Ave., near Forest Drive. The unidentified victim is being treated at University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and is expected to survive, police said. McDaniel faces first- and second-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges.

A former crime victim advocate in the Anne Arundel County prosecutors' office for more than a decade has been charged with lying to police. Daniel F. Weikert III, 39, a former victim-witness specialist in the State's Attorney's Office, was charged with lying to police about a Labor Day car accident, according to court documents. Much of the job involves working alongside prosecutors with crime victims and the witnesses, who may be called on to testify if a case goes to trial.

A thief made off with a trailer loaded with three riding mowers in Annapolis early Tuesday. The Superior trailer, which bore a Maryland license, was parked overnight on Thom Drive near Forest Drive. The owner discovered the loss early Tuesday. The suspect cut the lock from its hitch and left it in the roadway. The trailer carried a red Toro riding mower, a yellow Gravely riding mower, and a red Toro push mower. The owner told police he frequently leaves the trailer, secured with a lock, on the road at night at what is an apartment complex.

Annapolis police are investigating a double shooting Sunday night that has left one victim in critical condition. Officers responded to a report of a shooting at 11:30 p.m. to Medgar Evers Street near Frederick Douglas Street in the Eastport Terrace neighborhood. They found two adult men suffering from gunshot wounds. The 22-year-old victim, who was shot in the head, back and buttocks, was flown to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and remains in critical condition. The other victim, 27, was shot in the back.

A man trying to escape police jumped from a sixth-story hospital window in Annapolis Friday afternoon, landing on a rooftop three stories below. The jump caused life-threatening injuries to Bradly L. Poure, 40, who was flown from Anne Arundel Medical Center to Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, officials said. As of 11 p.m. Saturday, he was in listed in critical condition, according to the hospital. "He did jump," AAMC spokesman Chad Dillard said, adding that Poure used a piece of hospital equipment to break the window around 4:30 p.m. — right before Poure was to be discharged.