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By Peter Hermann | October 3, 2009
Baltimore police announced Friday that detectives have arrested suspects in two killings last month, including a fatal shooting during a robbery that netted $18, according to police and court documents. In the robbery case, police said Abron Scott, 42, of the 4500 block of Manor View Road was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder, armed robbery and gun offenses in the shooting Sept. 9 of Shelton Elliott in a house in the 500 block of N. Carey St. in West Baltimore. Police said the suspect walked into a third-story apartment through an unlocked door about 7:40 p.m. and threatened four occupants with a pistol.
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By Nick Madigan | September 26, 2009
Three Essex teenagers were charged Friday with first-degree murder in the strangulation last week of a 25-year-old man in a wheelchair. Baltimore County police identified the three suspects as Keon Torone Samuels, 18, of the 700 block of Walnut Grove Road; Andrew Minh Nguyen, 18, of the 1300 block of Kelly Case Lane; and Marlon Geovany Montes, 19, of the 1300 block of Elsing Road. Marin Jonathan Lendosky George, was found dead Sept. 18 in his Essex apartment by a maintenance man. Homicide detectives said he had been targeted by the three suspects and murdered in the course of a robbery, and the medical examiner determined that he had been strangled.
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April 10, 2009
Accused in gun sales, man is ordered held A man accused of illegally selling guns from his potato chip stall at Lexington Market must remain in custody while awaiting trial, U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake ruled Thursday during a detention-review hearing. Michael Papantonakis, 53, was arrested last week, accused of selling 13 firearms to undercover federal operatives he believed were gang members. He is also accused of trying to have a Lexington Market manager beaten. His attorney said the guns were from a personal collection that his client was trying to deplete and called any statements about harming the manager or dealing with gang members "venting," "silliness" and "stupid comments" that weren't meant or true.
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By Don Markus | April 4, 2009
A 21-year-old Columbia man was acquitted of first-degree murder in a botched robbery last year that led to a shooting death. The jury in Howard County Circuit Court also found Ronald McConnell not guilty of first-degree robbery and first-degree assault in the May 2008 incident, in which Jason Batts was killed. McConnell was found guilty of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and two gun possession charges. The trial lasted more than a week, and the jury deliberated over two days before returning its verdict Thursday night.
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By Justin Fenton | March 5, 2009
A 21-year-old man who police say is in the country illegally was arrested yesterday and charged in the stabbing death of a man last month in East Baltimore. Police also made an arrest in another fatal stabbing that occurred at a Hampden bar over the weekend. Eddy M. Castillo-Diaz, a native of Honduras who lists an address in the 100 block of N. Ellwood Ave., is charged with first-degree murder, assault and a weapons count in the death of Jose Escobar-Pena, who was stabbed in the abdomen just after 2 a.m. Feb. 22 in the 3500 block of Eastern Ave. Police arrested Lewis Brock, 27, of the 900 block of Bethune Road in an incident Sunday in which one man was killed and another injured.
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January 29, 2009
Annapolis man killed; woman turns gun on self An Annapolis woman fatally shot a man she lived with before turning the gun on herself early Tuesday, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Helen E. Clapsaddle, 43, and Michael J. Missimer, 39, were found dead of gunshot wounds in the master bedroom of their apartment in the 600 block of Admiral Drive minutes after a woman called police and said, "Get us or you will find two dead bodies," police said. Clapsaddle had been having financial problems and domestic issues with Missimer, police said.
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January 21, 2009
Man held in woman's death Baltimore County police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of a Middle River woman who was a bystander as a drug deal turned violent, police said yesterday. Warren Jerome Yates, 26, of the 7800 block of St. Boniface Lane was arrested about 9 p.m. Monday in Baltimore and has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Shirley Worcester. Worcester, 58, was shot Jan. 7 outside her house on Whitethorn Way in Middle River. Police said a man had purchased more than $4,000 worth of marijuana with a roll of money that had a $100 bill on the outside and fake cash inside.
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December 9, 2008
Man, 25, pleads guilty to 2005 murder of woman A 25-year-old Baltimore man pleaded guilty yesterday to murdering a woman with whom he had unprotected sex after someone falsely told him that she had HIV. As part of a plea agreement, Brandon Chambers of the 1300 block of W. North Ave. will be sentenced in February to 25 years in prison, plus five years of probation, in the 2005 shooting of Shanika Pretlow. If Chambers violates probation, a judge could imprison him for life. "I don't understand why this happened; I truly don't think she deserved this," the victim's mother, Justine McBeth, told Baltimore Circuit Judge John C. Themelis.
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October 17, 2008
2 Westport teens charged with first-degree murder Two 18-year-old Westport men have been charged with first-degree murder in a killing that took place near their homes in July. Tyrone Fields Jr. and Jawaun Harris, who both live on Sidney Avenue, were identified by witnesses as the men who chased down and shot Bernard Solomon, 23, on July 29, according to charging documents. Solomon was standing in the 2200 block of Sidney Ave. when two men approached and began to shoot at him. He ran down Sidney Avenue to elude his attackers but was struck numerous times by gunfire.
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By Justin Fenton | August 28, 2008
A 25-year-old man who was charged with first-degree murder last month but released on bail by a District Court judge has been arrested again and charged in the shooting of a man during a robbery in South Baltimore. Police said witnesses identified Demetrius Smith as the man who shot Robert Long twice in the head near railroad tracks in the 400 block of S. Stricker St. on March 24, and he was charged July 8 with first-degree murder, assault and handgun violations. A bail commissioner held him without bond.