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By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | June 28, 2012
Anne Arundel County police said they are investigating the death on June 10 of an infant who was reported unresponsive at a home in Jessup. Rescue workers called to the home took the 3-month-old girl to Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Efforts to revive her failed and she was pronounced dead shortly after reaching the hospital, police said Thursday. The medical examiner's office performed an autopsy, and the cause of death has not yet been determined, according to police. Infant deaths are routinely investigated and are considered "suspicious" unless the baby was under a doctor's care.
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By Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun | April 29, 2013
An off-duty police officer who died following a car crash in Pasadena on Saturday morning had shot himself first, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Bladensburg Police Officer Brian Johnson, 38, was driving a marked police car on eastbound Route 100 near Catherine Avenue at 9 a.m. on Saturday when it veered across the median and struck an oncoming vehicle, police said. Johnson was pronounced dead at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie. Police said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the cause of Johnson's death was a gunshot wound to his upper body.
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By Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun | April 29, 2013
An off-duty police officer who died following a car crash in Pasadena on Saturday morning had shot himself first, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Bladensburg Police Officer Brian Johnson, 38, was driving a marked police car on eastbound Route 100 near Catherine Avenue at 9 a.m. on Saturday when it veered across the median and struck an oncoming vehicle, police said. Johnson was pronounced dead at Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie. Police said the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the cause of Johnson's death was a gunshot wound to his upper body.
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By Yvonne Wenger and Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2013
A 35-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a car in Pasadena shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, officials said. Anne Arundel County police identified the woman as Karla Nicole Wilson, 31, of Mayfield Avenue in Baltimore. She was struck near the intersection of Fort Smallwood and Pittman roads and was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie with life-threatening injuries, Anne Arundel County Division Chief Keith Swindle said. Police later identified the driver of the car as Jacqueline Nichole Bowers, 28, of Pasadena.
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Baltimore Sun reporter | February 17, 2010
Anne Arundel County police are looking for the man who they say robbed a clerk in a hospital cafe at knifepoint Sunday evening. Police say the cafe worker at the Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie told them a man came in at about 8 p.m. Sunday, stepped behind her, showed her the knife and demanded cash from the register. The woman complied and was not hurt. The man left, police said.
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By Raven L. Hill, The Baltimore Sun | October 24, 2010
An 80-year-old woman suffered life-threatening injuries in a Millersville car accident that sent her and four others people to the hospital. The woman, whose identity was not released, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The accident occurred at about 12:41 p.m., said Lt. Cliff Kooser, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The other victims were taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center. The accident occurred on Veterans Highway near Benfield Road.
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November 21, 2009
A man believed to be in his 40s was struck by a car and killed Friday evening while crossing Ritchie Highway in Glen Burnie. The man was hit about 5:45 p.m. near Ritchie Highway and Sixth Avenue, according to Sgt. Michael Haviland of the Anne Arundel County police. The man was taken by ambulance to Baltimore Washington Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police did not immediately release his identity or that of the driver. The accident was under investigation, police said. - Frank D. Roylance
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By Liz F. Kay, The Baltimore Sun | December 13, 2010
A 19-year-old woman died Sunday after her vehicle struck a stone post in Edgewater Sunday night, according to Anne Arundel County fire and police sources. Jennifer Nicole Suit, 19, of Edgewater was driving westbound in the 700 block of Central Avenue when her 2011 Nissan Versa crossed over the double line and into the eastbound lanes before leaving the roadway, according to police. The vehicle spun out and struck a stone post at the entrance to a driveway, police said. Suit suffered massive head injuries and was taken to the Baltimore Washington Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
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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 Andrea F. Siegel | andrea.siegel@baltsun.com | November 16, 2009
The teenage driver of a truck involved in a serious accident Wednesday on Route 100 has died, Anne Arundel County police said Monday. Police said Dakota Kelly Alder, 19, of the 7800 block of Dero Drive, Pasadena, died at 4:45 p.m. Friday. Police said that Alder was driving west on Route 100 near the Interstate 97 interchange about 2:30 p.m. and lost control of the truck. It struck the guard rail and flipped. Alder was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. A passenger, Jordan Joshua Swick, 19, of the 400 block of South Carolina Avenue, Pasadena, was taken in critical condition to the Baltimore Washington Medical Center, police said.
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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.
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By Yvonne Wenger and Carrie Wells, The Baltimore Sun | March 14, 2013
A 35-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a car in Pasadena shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, officials said. Anne Arundel County police identified the woman as Karla Nicole Wilson, 31, of Mayfield Avenue in Baltimore. She was struck near the intersection of Fort Smallwood and Pittman roads and was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie with life-threatening injuries, Anne Arundel County Division Chief Keith Swindle said. Police later identified the driver of the car as Jacqueline Nichole Bowers, 28, of Pasadena.
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By Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun | May 2, 2010
Three people were hospitalized Sunday for symptoms related to heat exposure at an Anne Arundel County community fair near Glen Burnie, according to an Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman. Six fairgoers sought aid from emergency responders who were working the Ferndale Community Fair, on Broadview and 3 r d Avenue, according to Lt. Cliff Kooser. They complained of headaches, nausea and other heat-exposure symptoms. Three people were taken to the Baltimore Washington Medical Center, and three others were treated by emergency personnel at the fair and released, Kooser said.
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By Andrea F. Siegel, The Baltimore Sun | June 28, 2012
Anne Arundel County police said they are investigating the death on June 10 of an infant who was reported unresponsive at a home in Jessup. Rescue workers called to the home took the 3-month-old girl to Baltimore Washington Medical Center. Efforts to revive her failed and she was pronounced dead shortly after reaching the hospital, police said Thursday. The medical examiner's office performed an autopsy, and the cause of death has not yet been determined, according to police. Infant deaths are routinely investigated and are considered "suspicious" unless the baby was under a doctor's care.
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By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun | April 16, 2012
Anne Arundel County Police have identified the officer who shot a Gambrills man to death in the man's home last week as Timothy Peek, a four-year member of the force assigned to patrol services. Peek was responding to a report of a domestic assault in the 800 block of Frost Valley Lane on Friday afternoon when he became involved in a "physical altercation" with resident Gary Petrie, police said. They said Peek was "in fear for his life" when he shot Petrie in the upper body. Petrie, 56, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died of his injuries, police said.
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