Charged

A 35-year-old Edgewood man has been charged in a last week's triple shooting in West Baltimore that left one man dead, court records show. Kivi Ali Kennedy of the 800 block of Gilway Court was arrested at the scene by a patrol officer after a foot chase, according to charging documents. He was identified by the surviving victims as the man who shot them about 11:50 p.m. Thursday in the 1500 block of N. Fulton Ave., in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, documents say. Dejuan Green, 23, whose last known address was in Gwynn Oak, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after midnight.

Two sisters from Laurel have been jailed without bond, accused of fatally stabbing a man last month as they tried to collect a drug debt, Anne Arundel County police said. Latisha Montia Adams, 21, and Patrice Rashah Dove, 20, of the 300 block of Cokeland South in Laurel were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, drug distribution and related counts, said Lt. James Fredericks. The women told Anne Arundel police that Adams stabbed Jamal Medina, 22, when they fought as they tried to collect money he owed Adams, charging documents say. Medina collapsed about 1:45 a.m. Dec. 21 on Red Clay Road near Route 198, not far from his apartment.

A 51-year-old Eastern Shore man has been charged with building and selling improvised bombs after investigators spent four months trying to learn the source of loud noises in Queen Anne's County, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal. Dale Anthony Rocknak of Lee Road in Chester was charged in a criminal summons with five counts of manufacturing and selling explosive devices. He faces a maximum 20 years in prison if convicted of each count; his trial is scheduled for June.

Both the mother and father should be charged in the case of the one-month old boy who was found buried in Druid Hill Park ("Murder charge in baby's death," March 16). The father led the police to the grave. The baby had been there since some time in February. Department of Social Services had taken away four other children. Neither of them should be let off the hook. The father must have known something about what the mother had done. I don't understand how he could have gone nearly a month and not wondered where his son was. I think he knew what the mother had done.

Police have charged a 41-year-old Baltimore man with attacking a Columbia security guard with a box cutter. Terrell Webb, of the 1500 block of North Decker Ave., was arrested Friday night in Baltimore after a patrol officer observed him behaving suspiciously, Howard County police spokeswoman Elizabeth Schroen said. A background check revealed an open warrant from the Feb. 27 incident at the Mall of Columbia. Webb faces charges of first and second-degree assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

A 21-year-old Baltimore city police officer accused of pulling a gun during a dispute at a Windsor Mill bar was terminated by the agency Tuesday, police said. Jamar Lloyd Barnes, of Parkville, has been charged with pulling a gun on staff at Corinthian Lounge and Restaurant on Friday night and resisting arrest when confronted by Baltimore County police officers. City police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Barnes, who was assigned to the Central District but was still in his probationary period as an officer, was terminated Tuesday afternoon.

A sex offender who was released from prison in April has been charged with fondling an 11-year-old girl in a Southwest Baltimore church, according to court records. Police said Rodney Earl Key, 46, was in St. James Church's sanctuary in the 200 block of S. Augusta Ave. on Sunday when he put the girl on his lap and put his hand up her dress, records show. The girl asked Key what he was doing and he said he was "going to give her a spanking but he couldn't because she was too sweet," according to charging documents.

Four men, including two Morgan State University students and the school band's former percussion coordinator, have been arrested after a woman said they held her down and sexually assaulted her in a Northeast Baltimore apartment complex. Renard James, 30, Dante Green, 24, Dale Lawton, 23, and Howard Smith Cook, 21, were each arrested July 12 and charged with eight counts of sex offense, assault, perverted practice and conspiracy charges. They are being held without bail. According to court records, the alleged assault took place June 30 in the 6500 block of McClean Blvd.

A Baltimore firefighter has been charged with 10 counts of possessing and distributing child pornography after detectives found explicit files being shared from his computer over an online peer-to-peer network, court records show. Philip Hodge, 54, of the 2200 block of Deerfern Crescent in Northwest Baltimore, was arrested Friday and released after posting $50,000 bond. Police wrote in charging documents that Hodge admitted that he had downloaded child pornography, and a search of his home computer revealed additional files.