Columbia Man

A Columbia man who was hit by a car while crossing Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia last week died Saturday, Howard County police said yesterday. John Michael Sturdevant, 22, was crossing the highway near the Howard County Library in the vicinity of South Entrance Road about 5 p.m. Oct. 22 when he was struck by an eastbound Honda Civic, according to police. Sturdevant was not walking in a marked crosswalk, which was about 75 feet away, police said. No charges have been filed against the driver, and the investigation is continuing, police said.

A Columbia man was killed Friday night when the car he was driving collided with a tractor-trailer on U.S. 1 in Jessup, Howard County police said yesterday.The accident occurred at 6: 48 p.m., when a 1999 Kenworth truck pulling a flatbed trailer south on U.S. 1 started turning left on Assateague Avenue, police said.A northbound Plymouth Horizon struck the right front of the turning truck, according to the police department's Traffic Enforcement Section.The driver of the Plymouth, identified by police as Van G. Robinson Jr., 41, of Columbia, died at the scene.

A man suspected of firing an assault rifle after he was evicted from a party in Savage late Saturday was arrested and charged with first-degree assault and weapons violations, Howard County police said.Police said the man brought the rifle to a private party in the 8200 block of Glen Court and was told to leave. After he left, gunshots were reported in the area, police said.There were no injuries.During a ground and air search, police saw the man in the 8600 block of Washington Blvd. in Jessup and arrested him. Police found a .223 caliber Ruger mini-14 assault rifle and several clips.

Howard County police charged a Columbia man yesterday with making a false bomb threat last week that targeted the George Howard Building in Ellicott City.Police said a man called them at 9: 45 a.m. Feb. 1, saying there were "several bombs" under the county government building. Officials traced the call to a home on Jason Lane in Wilde Lake. When police arrived, a man there said he had more bombs, prompting a three-hour blockade, police said.The man eventually surrendered peacefully, and he was taken to a mental health facility.

A 30-year-old Columbia man was stabbed in the shoulder as he was fleeing from a robber near Long Reach Village Center on Saturday, Howard County police said.Edward Williams of the 5700 block of Stevens Forest Road, told police a man in a hooded top demanded money at 2: 50 a.m.Williams was leaving the village center Exxon station and ran from the assailant. He was stabbed as he was running, and a passing motorist drove him to Howard County General Hospital. The assailant fled. Williams had surgery to stop the bleeding.

A 26-year-old Columbia man wanted in Pennsylvania on charges of aggravated assault and burglary was arrested by Howard County police yesterday morning at his home, police said.About 5: 10 a.m., police raided the home of Michael Paul Puzey in the 4900 block of Columbia Road and seized about 15 rocks of suspected crack cocaine, police said.Puzey, who was being held at the Howard County Detention Center last night, faces charges in Pennsylvania of aggravated assault, burglary, possession of a firearm in commission of a felony and criminal trespassing.

A 27-year-old Columbia man was charged yesterday in two burglaries Wednesday at The Mall in Columbia, Howard County police said.Timothy M. Williams of the 6400 block of Mellow Wine Way in River Hill faces two counts of burglary, one count of theft, one count of attempted felony theft and two counts of destruction of property, police said.About 8: 15 a.m. Wednesday, police said, two employees at Lerner Shops walked into a back stock room at the store and spotted a man who fled out the rear door with an ATM card from an employee's purse, police said.

Howard County police are investigating the abduction of a Columbia man who reported that he was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to drive five men from Columbia to Washington and back.Police said the 18-year-old man reported five African-American men approached him Tuesday afternoon at the Kings Contrivance Village Center and wanted a ride to Washington.When he refused, he told police, one of the men pulled out a gun and demanded that he take them there.The man said he observed one of the men purchase drugs in Washington, and then the abductors instructed him to drive them back to Columbia.

A 70-year-old Columbia man was in critical condition at Prince George's Hospital Center yesterday, a day after he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Route 32.According to Howard County police, Han Xiang Liu was crossing Route 32 near Broken Land Parkway about 6 p.m. Tuesday when a Honda driven by a Silver Spring man hit him.Liu flipped onto the hood of the automobile and then fell to the ground.The driver of the Honda, Nelson Obdulio Reyes, 25, was not injured.Pfc. George Williams is investigating the accident.

Howard County police arrested two teen-agers and are looking for another on charges they kidnapped a Columbia man last month and forced him to drive them to Washington in his car.Arrested Thursday and charged as adults with kidnapping, carjacking and second-degree assault were Jerris Rashad Smith, 17, of the 3000 block of Marsh Crossing in Laurel and Justin Xavier Chambers, 16, of the 7200 block of Eden Brook Drive in Columbia.Police declined to name the third suspect.Five young people, including two who police say they are not charging, approached the 18-year-old man as he was driving his parents' Nissan in the Kings Contrivance Village Center about 8 p.m. Sept.

Twins, 17, to be tried as adults in burning of dog 3 The 17-year-old twins accused of setting fire to a pit bull will be tried as adults, a judge decided Tuesday. Judge David Ross ruled that Tremayne and Travers Johnson will face felony animal cruelty charges in Baltimore Circuit Court, allegations that could send the boys to jail for three years. Attorneys for the twins argued that they were not properly cared for in the juvenile system after they were placed on probation for a handgun violation in October 2008.

A 21-year-old Columbia man who took part in an armed robbery and a carjacking in June 2008 was sentenced Tuesday in Howard County Circuit Court to 25 years in jail for one incident and faces up to 10 years for the other. Judge Louis A. Becker sentenced Chaz Bazzle to 25 years in connection with the carjacking and is sending him to the Patuxent Institute so he can receive mental health treatment. On June 29, 2008, Bazzle and another man robbed three people in the parking lot of a Columbia apartment complex about 3 a.m., taking $50 in cash from one victim and cell phones from the other two, according to court documents.

The calm of what residents called a quiet Howard County neighborhood was briefly interrupted Friday afternoon when an 18-year-old Columbia man was shot in the leg at an apartment he was visiting. Police put two local schools and a day care center on lockdown as they searched for his assailant, who they arrested later that day. Walter Richardson of the 5500 block of Sheffield Court was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

An 18-year-old Columbia man who is already serving 55 years for a murder he committed when he was 15 faces up to another 40 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday in Howard County Circuit Court to charges of first-degree assault and armed robbery. Monti Fleming, of the 6500 block of Overheart Lane, is to be sentenced by Judge Louis A. Becker III on Nov. 6. Less than three weeks after he shot and killed Shawn Powell during a fight at a Columbia apartment complex in August 2006, Fleming shot Mark Golston outside Golston's Columbia home, hitting him in the leg. Three days later, Fleming was one of three men to rob and pistol-whip two Pennsylvania iron workers, Jon and Justin Shaffer, inside a hotel room where the brothers were staying while working in Maryland.

A Columbia man convicted of killing two people in separate incidents less than a month apart in 2007 was sentenced yesterday to consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. Howard County Circuit Judge Diane O. Leasure also sentenced Charles Richardson IV to 20 more years in each of the cases for using a handgun to commit a felony. Richardson, 25, was convicted in October in the April 26, 2007, killing of Alevtina Zhilina during a robbery of the 7-Eleven store in Columbia where the victim worked.

Columbia man charged in shooting death A Columbia man has been arrested in the fatal shooting Wednesday night of Tamba K. Nyorkor in the victim's apartment in the Village of Kings Contrivance. Information from witnesses led to the arrest of Evan Marcel Gaines, 18, of the 9800 block of Softwater Way, Howard County police said. After a woman called 91, officers went to the victim's home in the 9700 block of Clock Tower Lane about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and found Nyorkor, 26, dead from a bullet wound.

A Columbia man has been indicted on a charge of attempted first-degree murder, accused of fatally shooting a 15-year-old boy in the head during a robbery attempt. Dominique Davon McDonald, 18, was arrested in the incident, which police said occurred in the area of Clock Tower Lane in Columbia about 1 a.m. Aug. 27. McDonald is being held without bond. He also was indicted on first-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges. Also last week, the grand jury indicted Gregory Imes Jr., a Columbia man accused of breaking into the home of his ex-girlfriend's mother and stabbing her and her fiance.

Arundel man charged in assault with a machete A woman quarreled with two neighbors early yesterday at a mobile home park in Anne Arundel County, and her boyfriend joined the fray with a machete, according to county police. Police said that a woman, who was reportedly drunk, returned home to the Lyons Creek Mobile Estates in Lothian about 2 a.m. She began yelling at a man and a woman who were in a nearby home, and they went outside to see why she was shouting, police said. The couple told police that the drunken woman then assaulted the female victim.

Bryan Antoine Adams Jr. was walking along a busy street, in the middle of the day, in the heart of Columbia's oldest village. He took a phone call, a friend would later say, and said he'd be over soon to hang out. "I called his phone back," said the friend, Tanya Smith, "and didn't get an answer." Adams, a 20-year-old Columbia resident, was gunned down shortly before 11:30 a.m. yesterday on a sidewalk near the Wilde Lake village center. The Columbia man was rushed to Howard County General Hospital and he later died.

A Columbia man who was hit by a car while crossing Little Patuxent Parkway in Columbia last week died Saturday, Howard County police said yesterday. John Michael Sturdevant, 22, was crossing the highway near the Howard County Library in the vicinity of South Entrance Road about 5 p.m. Oct. 22 when he was struck by an eastbound Honda Civic, according to police. Sturdevant was not walking in a marked crosswalk, which was about 75 feet away, police said. No charges have been filed against the driver, and the investigation is continuing, police said.