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A 15-year-old Glen Burnie boy has been accused of killing a man who died more than two weeks after being struck in the head with a baseball bat during an argument. Christian J. Schellenschlager Jr., a sophomore at Glen Burnie High School, was ordered held without bond yesterday after being arrested Friday and charged as an adult with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. Police said he was among a group of youths who got into an argument with Brian Michael Myers, 49, on April 29. During the argument, police said Schellenschlager left the area and retrieved a baseball bat. Myers was struck in the head from behind with an aluminum Louisville Slugger.

A Morgan State University student who was partially blinded with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire alleges in a recently filed lawsuit that the school ignored warning signs of Alexander Kinyua's potential for violence. Joshua Ceasar of New Jersey was struck by Kinyua, who is accused of killing a family friend before eating some of his body parts in Harford County. Kinyua pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in December in the attack on Ceasar. "There were numerous warning signs that Kinyua was a danger to the community, and Morgan State failed to act to protect anyone on campus," said Ceasar's attorney, Steven D. Silverman.

Two men who assaulted an Aberdeen area man with a baseball bat Tuesday night. Arrest warrants on charges of first-degree assault have been issued for Michael Hawley, of the 200 block of Golf Drive in Aberdeen, and Keven Sparks, of the 1700 block of Cedar Crest Court in Edgewood, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The two allegedly assaulted Dion Lee Kuhn, 41, around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at Kuhn's home in the 900 block of North Stepney Road. Police found Kuhn lying in the yard near the house; his head was bleeding, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.

Dayvon Green, Stephen Rane and Neal Oa didn't know one another before becoming roommates last fall, sharing a modest split-level house in a subdivision across from the University of Maryland, College Park. But Oa came to regard Green as a friend, making Tuesday's events at the house even more shocking. Early that morning, Green opened fire, shooting Oa in the leg and killing Rane, police said. The violence stunned the community and those who knew Green. Police said the 23-year-old graduate student who had interned at NASA set fires in and around the home to lure his roommates outside before he shot them.

A Morgan State University student who was partially blinded with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire alleges in a recently filed lawsuit that the school ignored warning signs of Alexander Kinyua's potential for violence. Joshua Ceasar of New Jersey was struck by Kinyua, who is accused of killing a family friend before eating some of his body parts in Harford County. Kinyua pleaded guilty but not criminally responsible in December in the attack on Ceasar. "There were numerous warning signs that Kinyua was a danger to the community, and Morgan State failed to act to protect anyone on campus," said Ceasar's attorney, Steven D. Silverman.

The man charged with dismembering a friend and eating his heart and part of his brain was indicted Thursday on a separate attempted first-degree murder charge in the beating of another victim hit with a baseball bat. A grand jury also indicted 21-year-old Morgan State University student Alexander Kinyua on charges of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of assault and using a deadly weapon with intent to injure. The suspect is being held without bail in Harford County on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the killing of his friend.

A Glen Burnie teen was found responsible yesterday in the death of a 49-year-old man who died after being struck on the head with an aluminum baseball bat. Christian J. Schellenschlager Jr., 16, was found the juvenile court's equivalent of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. He avoided a similar finding on more serious charges, including second-degree murder, in the death of Brian Michael Myers in April. Prosecutors had attempted to have him tried as an adult. The teenager did not admit responsibility, but he agreed to a statement of facts read yesterday morning by prosecutors in the Anne Arundel County courtroom of Circuit Judge J. Michael Wachs.

An Annapolis man was charged with assault early Monday after he struck a Pasadena man outside an Arnold pool hall and damaged a car with a baseball bat, county police said.Albert Winston Sully Jr. 20, of the 8000 block of Wolsey Court told police that he and friends were leaving Bill and Billie's Q Club in the 1200 block of Ritchie Highway shortly after 1 a.m. when a man approached with a bat.The man hit Mr. Sully in the lower back, police said. The injured man took cover in the car of a friend, who ran into the pool hall to call police.

Police are searching for the men who beat two Howard County teen-agers with a baseball bat after a party in an Elkridge mobile home park Friday night. William A. Burgess, 19, of the 5300 block of Brook Way in Columbia and Charles D. Okeke, 14, of the 8600 block of Town and Country Blvd. in Ellicott City were beaten by an unknown number of men after they left a party about 9:30 p.m. in the Deep Run Mobile Home Park in the 8000 block of Keeton Road, police said. Burgess was cut on the legs with a knife and was hit on the head with a bat. Okeke also was hit on the head with a bat and was repeatedly kicked while on the ground, police said.

A 29-year-old resident of the Greens of Westminster has been arrested and charged in the striking of another man with a baseball bat Monday.Police said a man struck Brian Lawson in the head with a bat after Mr. Lawson confronted him about his excessive driving speed on streets where children were playing.Police said the men argued briefly before the man went to his home and returned with the baseball bat.Hector Anibal Santiago of Ewing Drive was charged with one count each of reckless endangerment, carrying a dangerous and deadly weapon, assault and assault and battery.

Two men who assaulted an Aberdeen area man with a baseball bat Tuesday night. Arrest warrants on charges of first-degree assault have been issued for Michael Hawley, of the 200 block of Golf Drive in Aberdeen, and Keven Sparks, of the 1700 block of Cedar Crest Court in Edgewood, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The two allegedly assaulted Dion Lee Kuhn, 41, around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at Kuhn's home in the 900 block of North Stepney Road. Police found Kuhn lying in the yard near the house; his head was bleeding, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.

The man charged with dismembering a friend and eating his heart and part of his brain was indicted Thursday on a separate attempted first-degree murder charge in the beating of another victim hit with a baseball bat. A grand jury also indicted 21-year-old Morgan State University student Alexander Kinyua on charges of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of assault and using a deadly weapon with intent to injure. The suspect is being held without bail in Harford County on a first-degree murder charge in connection with the killing of his friend.

Questions on are mounting on whether someone missed troubling warning signs before Morgan State University senior Alexander Kinyua allegedly cut up a family friend and ate his heart and part of his brains. Today, we bring you an interview with a man who was beaten by a baseball bat and thinks he could've been the first victim of cannibalism. It's not clear when the suspect's erratic behavior allegedly turned deadly, and in dividual incidents that predated the late May killing in the suspect's Joppatowne home -- of Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, 37, might seem innocuous when viewed separately.

Police say an "alert citizen" in Sykesville tackled a man who was beating a High's convenient store clerk with a baseball bat on Friday, Jan. 6, but couldn't detain the assailant long enough for police to make an arrest. As a result, Maryland State Police and the Sykesville Police Department are searching for the clerk's attacker, and have obtained a warrant for Darrell Webb Jr., 21, of the 1800 block of Amanda Lane, Sykesville. Police said Webb is wanted for armed robbery, first degree assault and theft.

A career criminal whom an irate customer beat with a baseball bat during a holdup of a Fells Point thrift store two years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of robbery. Mark Lomax, 41, targeted Killer Trash on Broadway three times in eight days. Prosecutors said during his sentencing hearing that the suspect had committed an additional 14 robberies in the span of a month using a collapsible wooden yardstick covered in tape and wrapped in a plastic bag to resemble a firearm.

Harford County sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Clarence Edward Weaver Sr., 53, of the first block of East Inca Street, was arrested Monday on a bench warrant in a case in which he was charged with driving an uninsured vehicle. Dwayne Cecil Webb, 43, of the 500 block of Pleasant Wind Drive, was charged Thursday with making false statement to police, driving while his license and privilege were suspended, driving while his license and privilege were revoked, driving without required license and authorization, driving while his license was suspended, failure to display registration card on demand, failure to display license on demand, driving without current tags, operating unregistered vehicle, giving false and fictitious name to uniformed police and following too closely.

To all who have misconceptions about the protest at the Ed Block Award Foundation's banquet, I was there. I helped with the protest. I know why were there and what happened. We were not protesting Michael Vick's existence with our peaceful protest of approximately 100 people. We were protesting his receiving the courage award. And we did not need a dozen policemen to control us. Four to six stood along the barrier and watched us. I spoke with all of them and assured them that we would not be any trouble.

Anne Arundel County police used tear gas early Thursday to force a man out of the Hanover home of his estranged wife, police said. Mark Edward McMillan had barricaded himself inside the house in the 7100 block of Ohio Ave. and had threatened to burn it down, police said. Howard County police told Anne Arundel County police about 1 a.m. Thursday that a man suspected in a home invasion in Elkridge might be on his way to the home of his estranged wife and might be armed. When officers checked on her, the 51-year-old woman was fine and McMillan was nowhere in sight, according to police spokesman Justin Mulcahy.