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By Richard Irwin and Richard Irwin,SUN STAFF | April 25, 1997
Two men and a youth, who were arrested Wednesday night after one of them was shot by a Baltimore County police officer in Rosedale, have been charged in a slaying in East Baltimore minutes earlier, city police said.Homicide Detective Donald Kramer said Theodore Helms, 20, of the 200 block of N. Milton Ave. was fatally shot and Kevin Cade, 17, of the 1200 block of N. Bond St. was wounded in the right arm about 8: 15 p.m. Wednesday in the 2400 block of Jefferson St.About 15 minutes later, county Officer Michael Cortez stopped a Ford Tempo at Pulaski Highway and Chesaco Avenue for a traffic violation, according to Bill Toohey, county police spokesman.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | February 9, 2013
A 26-year-old man has been charged in the after hours club shooting last month that left one man dead and others injured, according to Baltimore police. Ricky Horton is charged in the death of Sean Rhodes, 25, of Franklin Square, who was one of three people shot early Jan. 13 at the Ras-a-Ter International Restaurant and Club at 2103 W. North Ave., police said. Horton, of the 4900 block of Edgemere Avenue in Baltimore, faces first degree murder and assault charges. The shooting occurred about 5:30 a.m. as people left the club, marking the second within 14 months, police said.
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April 4, 1995
Lawyers in the case of Nathaniel Hurt, who is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of a 13-year-old boy, clashed yesterday over new ballistics evidence. Page 2B
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By Yvonne Wenger, The Baltimore Sun | January 31, 2013
A 22-year-old Glen Burnie man is in custody for allegedly strangling his 62-year-old great aunt to death Tuesday in the 300 block of Gatewater Court, police said. Brandon Zachary Duncan is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Dianna Lee Fitzwater. Duncan is under a guard's watch at a local hospital for unrelated issues, police said Thursday. Police responded to a call at 11:44 p.m. Tuesday and found Fitzwater's body. A witness at the house reported that she and Duncan woke around 11:30 p.m. and went to the living room, where they found the victim unresponsive.
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May 19, 1994
An article in the same edition incorrectly reported a December plea entered by Alvin W. Gross, a Shady Side man who is charged with first-degree murder. He pleaded guilty to marijuana possession.The Sun regrets the errors.
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By Richard Irwin and Richard Irwin,SUN STAFF | April 10, 1998
A man in custody on a rape charge has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a Hampden woman whose body was found in Druid Hill Park last month, police said yesterday.According to police, the body of Deborah Hatfield, 42, of the 3700 block of Elm Ave. was found about 11: 30 a.m. March 7 by a man and his son as they walked in the Taylor's Grove section of the park near the conservatory. Hatfield's family reported her missing the next day, police said.Detective John Thanner said Hatfield, the mother of two and a custodial worker at Baltimore-Washington International Airport, was suffocated.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS | August 22, 1996
County police searched the home of a Baltimore man yesterday and arrested him in the slaying of an Essex man earlier this month.Carlos Dana Smith, 23, of the 3800 block of Granada Ave. was charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 10 shooting of Pernell N. Brown, 28.Pub Date: 8/22/96
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September 25, 1990
A 46-year-old Southwest Baltimore woman died of a gunshot wound early yesterday, and her 25-year-old boyfriend was charged with murder, according to police.He told police that the woman had thrown an end table at the .22-caliber rifle he was holding.Officers summoned to the 4800 block of Clifton Avenue found Norlinda R. Rucker lying in a second-floor hallway, shot in the left side of the head, police said. She was declared dead on arrival at 1:41 a.m. after being airlifted to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
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April 15, 1992
Police have arrested a second suspect in the fatal shooting Monday night of Eric Jerome Brown, 19, who attempted to intervene during an argument among three teen-agers over a girl on a northeast city street.Andrew Payton, 16, of the 600 block of Yale Ave. in Irvington, was arrested at 2 p.m. yesterday at police headquarters after an interview. He was charged with first-degree murder and using a handgun in the commission of a felony, police said.Hamin Shakir, 15, of the 1600 block of Division St., was arrested several hours after the shooting and was charged with first-degree murder and a handgun violation.
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January 3, 1998
In an item in the Police Blotter in yesterday's editions, Michael Antonio Blake, 28, was mistakenly identified as a suspect in a double shooting Dec. 7 that left one man dead. In fact, he was wounded in the attack. Charged with first-degree murder in the incident was Dante Johnson, 20, of the 5800 block of Key Ave.The Sun regrets the errors.Pub Date: 1/03/98
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By Kevin Rector, The Baltimore Sun | October 14, 2012
Two 18-year-old men have been arrested in the fatal shooting of another man in Pasadena early Saturday morning, Anne Arundel County police said Sunday. Ronald Lee McLeod, of Columbia, and Daniel Alex Savage, of Glen Burnie, have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Matthew Morrow, 21, who died at an area hospital after being found with gunshot wounds in the 7000 block of Outing Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Another man — whom The Sun confirmed to be mixed martial arts fighter Darren Costa, 20 — was also found shot and was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | September 18, 2012
Baltimore police have arrested and charged a 20-year-old man in a shooting they say resulted from a dispute over drugs that left a teen critically wounded on the campus of Morgan State University last week. Kelly Lamont Ellerbee of the 6000 block of Chinquapin Parkway faces attempted first-degree murder and related charges in the shooting of 19-year-old Michael Antonio Campbell at the student center. Police said Ellerbee and Campbell knew each other but would not say whether they believe Ellerbee went to the campus for the purpose of shooting Campbell or whether the two men went with each other.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | September 5, 2012
A 19-year-old man was arrested in the fatal shooting of another teen last month during a large party at a Catonsville Ramada Inn, Baltimore County police said. Savion Devante Moore, 19, of no fixed address, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Kelvin Glasgow on Aug. 19, when police were called to 6422 Baltimore National Pike for a fight. Officers found Glasgow suffering from a gunshot wound in the rear parking lot, and he was pronounced dead on scene. Police said the party got out of hand, the hostess asked people to leave and several fights broke out in the parking lot. Police reviewed footage from hotel surveillance cameras that they said shows Moore firing the weapon.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | August 21, 2012
Baltimore County police charged a 20-year-old Dundalk man Tuesday with first-degree murder in his roommate's death. Edwin Alexander Iglesias-Reyes is accused of stabbing Victor DeJesus Portillo-Portillo, 26, of the 400 block of Scarsdale Road multiple times on Monday. Police said he then fled the home, leaving a trail of blood from the basement into a rear alley where a knife was found. Officers found blood around the surrounding neighborhood. The roommates had gotten into an fight but police said it's unclear what the argument was about.
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By Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | June 30, 2012
City police charged a 37-year-old man Friday in a Pigtown killing that occurred in March. Detectives arrested Antwan Conley of the 3000 block of Gwynns Falls in the death of Darshewn Freeman, 44. Freeman was found by police in the rear of the 1200 block of W. Ostend St. bleeding from the head March 19. He later died from blunt force trauma to the head at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police said the two men had been arguing before Conley killed Freeman. Conley is charged with first-degree murder and is being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center.
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By Justin Fenton, Peter Hermann and Alison Knezevich, The Baltimore Sun | June 1, 2012
As an electrical engineering student at Morgan State University, Alexander Kinyua was described by a professor as "docile" and dedicated, always looking to improve himself. On the Internet, Kinyua — now accused of killing a family friend and eating his heart and parts of his brain — donned green-and-white face paint and warned of impending strife. A fuller picture began to emerge Friday of both Kinyua and the victim, 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a man facing legal troubles of his own who was reportedly invited to stay with the Harford County family by Kinyua's father, a professor at Morgan State.
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By Richard Irwin and Richard Irwin,SUN STAFF | January 3, 1997
Two men were slain in domestic disputes on New Year's Day, and in each case the victim's girlfriend was charged with first-degree murder, Prince George's County police said yesterday.At 3: 38 p.m. Wednesday, police went to an apartment in the 3400 block of Brinkley Road in Temple Hills and found Tony Eugene Morgan, 34, of that address dead of a gunshot wound to the upper torso.Felicia Gibson, 29, also a resident of the apartment, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Morgan's death, police said.
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By Justin Fenton, Kayla Bawroski and Kevin Rector, Baltimore Sun Media Group | May 31, 2012
The 21-year-old college student allegedly told detectives that he hadn't just killed the man who'd lived with his family for months, but had eaten his heart and portions of his brain. The victim's severed head and hands were found in the men's Harford County home; more remains were left in a trash container outside a church. Authorities outlined the macabre circumstances Thursday in charges against Alexander Kinyua, an electrical engineering major at Morgan State University and member of his school's ROTC program, of first-degree murder in the death of 37-year-old Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie, a Ghanaian national and a former master's degree student.
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By Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun | April 5, 2012
A Dundalk man's missing persons case, which police have investigated since September, has been ruled a homicide, and a grand jury has charged two Middle River residents with the killing. Jeffrey Jennings, 57, of the 8100 block of Gray Haven Road, was reported missing on Sept. 15, when Jennings' son called police and said he hadn't heard from his father in nearly a week, according to police. Detectives from Baltimore County's Missing Persons Unit launched a months-long investigation, police said, and intercepted communications between John Leschefsky, 27, of Middle River and others that led police to believe Jennings was the victim of murder.
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