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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | January 29, 2013
A 23-year-old man was shot in Glen Burnie on Monday night after he tried to flee an armed man who approached his vehicle and announced a robbery, Anne Arundel County Police said Tuesday. The victim may have been targeted and the shooting was "not a random act of violence," police said. Police responded to Baltimore Washington Medical Center about 9:40 p.m. and found the victim, who had driven himself to the hospital, with a gunshot wound, police said. The victim told police he was sitting in his parked vehicle in the 7800 block of Southhampton Drive when the armed man approached the car. The victim said he tried to drive away, and the man fired into his vehicle before fleeing into a wooded area, police said.
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By Joe Burris, The Baltimore Sun | January 14, 2013
Police in Anne Arundel County arrested a man for choking his uncle at a home in Severn and have charged the man with attempted murder. At approximately 7:33 a.m. on Jan. 12, police responded to a 911 report of a fight involving a man choking his 51-year-old uncle with a rope, according to a statement issued by Anne Arundel police officials. Upon arriving at a residence in the 7900 block of Citadel Drive, police saw the men in the front yard and removed the rope from the victim's neck to allow him to breathe.
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By Scott Dance, The Baltimore Sun | December 29, 2012
A truck overturned in an accident involving an Anne Arundel County police vehicle on southbound Interstate 97 near Route 100 on Saturday sent both drivers to the hospital, officials said. No injuries were listed in the accident report, but the driver of the truck was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center and the police officer to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center as a precautionary measure, county police Lt. Glenn Shanahan said. The accident, which is under investigation, blocked several lanes of traffic for about an hour until 4 p.m., officials said.
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By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun | September 8, 2012
Ten people were injured when an MTA bus collided with a car in Glen Burnie on Saturday night, according to Anne Arundel County fire officials. Responders were dispatched to the scene at Crain Highway and 8th Avenue at 9:45 p.m., officials said. One child was taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Center, and another was transported to Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Eight people involved in the crash were taken to Harbor Hospital. No further details were immediately available.
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | September 5, 2012
An Anne Arundel County police officer was injured when his cruiser overturned on Route 100 in Pasadena amid intermittent rain showers Wednesday night, according to a county Fire Department spokesman. Emergency personnel responded to the westbound side of the highway near Catherine Avenue at 8:56 p.m. for an overturned police cruiser, said Lt. Keith Hamilton, the spokesman. The officer who was driving the cruiser was transported to Baltimore Washington Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, Hamilton said.
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By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun | July 20, 2012
A 33-year-old man thwarted a carjacking Thursday in Glen Burnie, but remains hospitalized with serious injuries incurred during a beating, Anne Arundel County police said. The victim left a restaurant in the 800 block of Aquahart Road, near Ritchie Highway at about 11:30 p.m. He engaged the remote start as he approached his vehicle, a Chevrolet Avalanche. He was hit from behind, knocked to the ground and beaten and kicked by five men, police said. One suspect entered the car, but the victim was able to drag him out and get into the car himself.