Anne Arundel County Police

A woman and a Pitbull found dead in her Davidsonville home were both stabbed multiple times and her death has been ruled a homicide, Anne Arundel County police said. Two people found the body of Nicole C. Burgess, 37, in the 3300 block of Royale Glen Court around 11:30 a.m. on Mar. 22, police said. The medical examiner's office determined that Burgess and the dog both died of multiple stab wounds, according to police. Detectives believe the deaths are related but have no motive for the crimes and did not know whether it was a targeted or random attack, police said.

Anne Arundel County police arrested a Glen Burnie man after they responded to a caller telling them that his mother was being held at gunpoint by a former boyfriend, police said. Anne Arundel County police arrested a Glen Burnie man after they responded to a 21-year-old caller telling them that his mother was being held at gunpoint by a former boyfriend, police said. Police said that at about 10 p.m. Friday, they received a call saying that the 38-year-old woman was being held in a bedroom of a home in 200 block of Maryland Avenue by an ex-boyfriend, police said.

Anne Arundel County Police are investigating the shooting of a Brooklyn Park man who was found dead in a car near his home Thursday. Police were responding to calls for a shooting in the 400 block of Audrey Avenue at about 5:35 p.m. when they found Adam Ray Bucklew, 21, inside a vehicle with several gunshot wounds. Police said witnesses reported seeing two men flee from the area, but they were not found after officers combed the area. One man was described as a black, in his late teens to early 20s, 5-foot-11, 190 pounds, with a bald head and a large tattoo on his left arm, police said.

A 36-year-old man died at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being shot early Friday morning in his driveway in Laurel, Anne Arundel County police said. Officers from the county's Western District responded to the 8000 block of Ians Alley shortly before 2:30 a.m. Friday for the report of a shooting, police said. The victim, Gregory Robert Sears, told them he was shot after being approached by two men in his driveway, according to police. Officers searched the area for the men, but they were unable to locate them, police said.

A 28-year-old man was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 fatal shooting of 31-year-old Sir Keith English Queen Jones, according to Anne Arundel County police said. Police said Carroll Leon Johnson, 28, of no fixed address, was arrested around 7 a.m. Tuesday near Oak Manor Drive in Glen Burnie. Court records indicate Johnson was ordered held without bail. Police had been called to the parking lot of Dietrich's Tavern in Glen Burnie around 5:21 p.m. Dec. 30 for a shooting, and found Jones suffering from gunshot wounds.

A 9-year-old girl was sexually assaulted last week while she was walking from her Pasadena elementary school, police said. Shortly after 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 14, the victim was heading home from Lake Shore Elementary by walking through the Riding Woods neighborhood when a man "grabbed her and pulled her into a wooded area," according to a statement Tuesday from Anne Arundel County Police. The assault was reported to police on Sunday. Additional officers are patrolling the area.

Anne Arundel County police have identified the woman whose body was found in rising waters near a homeless camp in Laurel Thursday as 26-year-old Anifa Kiwanuka. Kiwanuka's body was discovered around 11:25 a.m. in rising waters Thursday near a homeless camp in a low lying, wooded area located by Route 198 and Racetrack Road. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore will determine the cause of death. According to police, a witness told Kiwanuka between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. to leave the area because the high waters were dangerous.

People were yelling at him to slow down, but Buck John Benny apparently didn't listen. The 16-year-old was driving home Wednesday night from swimming at Patapsco Valley State Park, behind the wheel of an old Plymouth Acclaim packed with friends and relatives, including a teenager crammed in the back seat holding her 3-year-old nephew on her lap. John Ward, a passenger, said the car was racing south on Ridge Road near the Elkridge Furnace Inn....

Anne Arundel County police are searching for three men believed to have dragged a woman to a dark area where she was sexually assaulted by one of them in Odenton. The woman told officers from the Western District that she was searching for her boyfriend in the area of Scott Lane and Saltoun Avenue when she was attacked by the men, police said. Police said the incident occurred about 2:30 a.m. Sept. 11. She was taken to a local hospital, where she was treated and released.

Anne Arundel County police charged two teens with assault Thursday, and both are accused of knocking another student unconscious at South River High School earlier this month. Officers were called to the Edgewater high school Oct. 6 after Jacob Dick, 17, of Gambrills, allegedly assaulted another student, causing other students to intervene, police said. While those students attempted to help the victim, police said Vernon Kilory Johnson, 17, Annapolis, then punched the victim again after he had been knocked out by Dick, sending the teen victim to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.