Charged In Stabbing

Two Prince George's County men have been arrested and charged with fatally stabbing a Northwest Baltimore man last summer at the Inner Harbor.Keith and Kevin Scott, 23-year-old twins from Lanham, were arrested Tuesday night by the FBI fugitive task force, said Baltimore homicide Detective Robert L. Patton.The brothers were charged in the death of Martrelle Creighton, 20, who was stabbed in the neck about 2 a.m. July 20 after an argument between two groups of people in front of the Light Street Pavilion at Harborplace.

A Westminster man is being held at the Carroll County Detention Center on attempted murder and assault charges stemming from a stabbing incident late Sunday, court records show.Roy Dean Carver, 49, of the 100 block of Pennsylvania Ave. was arrested after police were called to a home next door to the defendant's and found Jack Wimsett seriously injured from an apparent knife wound in the stomach.Wimsett was taken to Carroll County General Hospital and later transferred to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where a hospital spokesman said he was in fair condition yesterday.

County police arrested a 19-year-old Edgewater man at his home early yesterday after a 26-year-old Bowie man was stabbed with a kitchen knife during a fight at the younger man's house, police said.Leslie Paul Lechman of the 300 block of Oakwood Road was charged with first-degree assault, police said. The victim, Michael Fred Kovar of the 11000 block of Raging Brook Drive in Bowie, was in stable condition yesterday at University of Maryland Medical Center.Police said two men were in an upstairs bedroom at Lechman's house just before midnight Sunday when they began arguing and Kovar was stabbed once in the upper torso.

County police arrested an Edgewater man on assault charges Thursday after he allegedly stabbed his roommate during an argument over rent money.Anthony E. Wood, 19, of the 500 block of Fairmount Drive was moving his furniture and clothes out of the house he shared with James E. Melvin, 23, about 8 p.m. when the men started arguing about the money, police said.During the argument, Wood picked up an oar and struck Melvin across the face, breaking his nose and front teeth, police said.As the men wrestled, Wood allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Melvin in his back, knee and on his side, then fled in his truck, police said.

An Ellicott City woman was arrested in connection with the stabbing of a Columbia man after a domestic argument at her apartment Tuesday evening, police said.Kelly Shanita Carter, 21, of the 3200 block of Wheaton Way was charged with first-degree assault, reckless endangerment and attempted second-degree murder, police said.Myron Todd Banks, 20, of the 10300 block of Hickory Ridge Road in Harper's Choice, was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was listed in serious but stable condition.

A 19-year-old man has been charged with three counts of attempted murder in the stabbing of his mother and great-grandparents during an argument over money, police said yesterday.Police found Damon Wilson, of no fixed address, hiding in the attic of the victims' home in the 3400 block of Copley Road in Northwest Baltimore shortly after the Saturday incident. He was being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center, police said.Police said Wilson's mother and her grandparents were stabbed about 8 p.m. after he flew into a rage when they refused his request for money.

A Pimlico man was arrested Friday on charges of stabbing a Winfield man who died the next day of natural causes, court and police records show.Patrick McIntyre, 27, of Northwest Baltimore was being held on $10,000 bail at the Carroll County Detention Center pending a bail review hearing.McIntyre faces charges of first- and second-degree assault, malicious destruction of property and malicious destruction of a motor vehicle by throwing an object, reckless endangerment and use of a deadly weapon -- a screwdriver -- in the commission of a felony, court records show.

Two women have been charged in Monday's stabbing of a third near a shoe display in the Nordstrom Rack in Towson Town Center, police said yesterday.Sharma Justina Williams, 24, of the 2600 block of E. Oliver St. in Baltimore is charged with attempted murder, first-degree assault and weapons offenses, said Baltimore County police spokesman Bill Toohey.Charged as an accomplice in the afternoon assault was Deunka Montrease Wade, also 24, of the 1300 block of E. Cold Spring Lane in Baltimore.Williams is accused of stabbing Lashonda Hazel Washington, 27, in an argument that began after the two women jostled while shopping in the mall.

A kitchen supervisor at a popular Harborplace seafood restaurant was charged yesterday with fatally stabbing a cook in what city police say is the first slaying at the Inner Harbor since it was transformed into a tourist attraction in 1980.A handful of customers was finishing all-you-can-eat buffet meals at Phillips Harborplace Express about 9: 20 p.m. Wednesday when the suspect allegedly grabbed a chef's knife with a 12-inch blade and stabbed the victim in the left side of the chest.The cook, identified in court papers as Darryl Luttrell, 20, was attacked in an area between the kitchen and a buffet counter, apparently out of view of most patrons, police said.

WHITE MARSH -- The father of a White Marsh girl who was seriously wounded while playing with a handgun was charged yesterday with failing to store the gun out of the child's reach, police said.The charge against Phillip Weaver Jr., 23, came two days after his 3 1/2 -year-old-daughter, Asia Antoinette Weaver, underwent surgery for a gunshot wound to her midsection.The girl -- who, according to police, shot herself after finding her father's .45-caliber handgun under his bed -- was in fair condition yesterday at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Girl, 16, is charged in stabbing of grandfather A 16-year-old girl has been charged with attempted murder after police said she stabbed her grandfather in the back six times during an argument. On Nov. 19, Iesha Haynes, of the 2500 block of Loyola Southway, is said to have become enraged when confronted about an incident in which the back door of her grandmother's home was kicked in. Police say she punched her grandmother, Marion Odemena, in the face repeatedly, then directed the attacks to her grandfather, Ernest Morris, after he tried to pull them apart.

Two women were charged yesterday in an argument that turned violent on Thanksgiving night in West Baltimore, when three women were stabbed and taken to Sinai Hospital. Michelle Robinson, 33, of the 2500 block of Shirley Ave. in West Baltimore was charged with attempted murder, second-degree assault and conspiracy. Shameeka Reaves, 16, of the 700 block of N. Gilmor Ave. in West Baltimore was charged as an adult with attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault, carrying a knife with intent to injure, and conspiracy, among other charges.

Two charged in stabbing of Arundel student Two teenagers have been charged in the stabbing of a Glen Burnie High School student during a scuffle last week, police said yesterday. Brandon Pearmon, 17, was charged as an adult with first- and second-degree assault and with possessing a dangerous weapon on school property. A 16-year-old has been charged as a juvenile with second-degree assault. The victim, a 17-year-old male sophomore whose name was not released, was stabbed in the head with a pair of scissors shortly after dismissal, said Bob Mosier, an Anne Arundel County schools spokesman.

David Lofton, 17, of the 500 block of N. Fremont Ave., a Frederick Douglass High School student, has been arrested and charged with attempted murder in the stabbing Monday afternoon of a fellow student in a school bathroom, police said. Police were initially trying to determine whether the injury was accidental or intentional. The victim, whose name was not released, was treated at University of Maryland Medical Center. His condition was not available, but he was expected to survive.

A 49-year-old Joppa man was arrested early yesterday and charged with assault and possession of a deadly weapon with intent to injure in the stabbing of another man after a dispute. Stephen S. Groth is accused of stabbing Brian K. Snyder, 41, in the arm and in the lower back, according to a Harford County Sheriff's Office spokesman. The men live in separate apartments along Old Mountain Road and became involved in a dispute that began when one struck the other, police said. Groth was taken into custody and remains in the county detention center, and Snyder was treated and released from Bay View Medical Center in Baltimore yesterday, police said.

A Severn teenager was arrested and charged with attempted murder early yesterday after the stabbing of another girl during a fight in the Pioneer City neighborhood, Anne Arundel police said. Tamara Dinique Hall, 17, of the 1800 block of Dove Court also was charged with two counts of assault, reckless endangerment and other offenses in the incident, which left a 15-year-old seriously wounded, said police spokesman Sgt. Shawn Urbas. Hall was being held yesterday at the county detention center in lieu of $500,000 bail.

Howard County police arrested a 16-year-old girl yesterday on charges that she stabbed a boy as they rode the bus home from school. The girl, an 11th-grader who was not identified because she is a minor, got into an argument with a 10th-grade boy about 2:30 p.m. as the pair rode home from the Homewood School in Ellicott City, police said. She then stabbed the boy with a small knife, causing minor injuries, police added. The pair were the only passengers on the bus, said a school system spokeswoman.

A dispute between two residents of an Aberdeen group home for mentally challenged adults ended with one of them critically stabbed and the other arrested late yesterday afternoon. About 5:30 p.m., John Cusimano, 54, was stabbed twice in the chest, twice in the back and once in the arm in the home where he lived in the 100 block of Spesutia Road, said Ginger Rigney, spokeswoman for the Harford County Sheriff's Department. Cusimano was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he underwent surgery last night.

A 46-year-old Westminster man has been arrested on charges of stabbing his girlfriend in the leg with a folding knife, police said. Carl Wayne Pruitt of the 100 block of S. Center St. was charged with first- and second-degree assault in the attack on Wilda Katherine Atwell, 31, of the same address at 1:30 p.m. Friday. She was treated at Carroll County General Hospital in Westminster for a three-inch cut on the back of her left thigh, police said. Police said the woman reported that her boyfriend had been arguing with her at their residence.

City police obtained an arrest warrant yesterday charging an 18-year-old man with stabbing his young cousin in the chest in their East Baltimore rowhouse. Detectives said they would delay serving the warrant on Kevin Trinell Brown of the 1400 block of E. Eager St. until after he was evaluated by psychiatrists at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Jessup, the state's maximum-security hospital. Police sources said that they were concerned that Brown would not be able to handle confinement and that they were working on a way to arrest him but not take him to be formally booked or held in the city's Detention Center.