Critical Condition

The Perry Hall High School student shot on the first day of school has improved to fair condition, according to a spokesman for Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Daniel Borowy, 17, had been listed in critical condition since Aug. 27, when he was shot in the back in the school cafeteria. He underwent multiple surgeries to treat his injuries. A Baltimore County grand jury indicted student Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. earlier this week on multiple charges including attempted murder, first-degree assault and reckless endangerment.

A Parkville musician was so filled with emotion following the shooting of a Perry Hall High School special education student that he wrote a song. Greg Wimmer posted his tribute, "Daniel, We Pray," online, and not only has it already been circulating widely through social media, the victim's pastor played it during a church service this weekend. Daniel Borowy, 17, a special education student, was shot last week on the first day of school. He's been hospitalized since in critical condition, though he is expected to survive.

A 20-year-old man was in critical condition with a stab wound after an argument Monday morning in Dundalk, Baltimore County police said. A county police officer observed the stabbing in the 2100 block of Dunmanway and a suspect was taken into custody, police said. Earlier Monday, officers had been called to the 7300 block of Dunmanway on a report of two men arguing over a woman, police said. A police spokesman said the call was resolved and the officers left. Later Monday, an officer observed the same two men fighting in the 2100 block of Dunmanway, police said.

A 42-year-old man who was naked and wielding a rifle at a Lansdowne motel is in critical condition after Baltimore County police officers shot him early Wednesday, police said. Two officers responded to the Beltway Motel in the 3600 block of Washington Boulevard about 3:40 a.m. after a 911 call reported a naked man was shooting a rifle toward the outside of his second-floor room. When they arrived, the man came out of the room still armed with the rifle. When officers ordered him to drop the weapon, the man did not comply and began to walk toward the officers, police said.

A cheerful wave from Daniel Borowy greeted 14-year-old Katherine Kraft on Monday morning, easing the freshman's nerves on her first day at Perry Hall High School. "It was adorable," Kraft said. "I didn't think anyone would wave or anything. It was nice. " Within hours Borowy would be critically injured, shot in the back in the school cafeteria by another student. That Borowy was the victim made the violence all the more troubling for his peers. Borowy, a 17-year-old special education student at Perry Hall, is well-known for welcoming waves, high-fives and other friendly interactions, classmates said.

A 19-year-old man was critically injured when he fell about 60 feet from a catwalk in an abandoned plant in Dundalk on Sunday afternoon, according to a Baltimore County fire official. Emergency crews were called to the old Joseph E. Seagram & Sons bottling plant in the 7100 block of Sollers Point Road about 3:49 p.m. by the man's friend, who had also been on the catwalk but did not fall, said Capt. C. Ross Cooke, a fire spokesman. The plant, closed in the late 1980s, has multiple buildings, some of which are gutted with unsecured stairwells, Cooke said.

A Baltimore man was critically injured in a parking garage near the Columbia mall Thursday night when his van jumped a curb and struck a concrete support post, Howard County police said. About 7:09 p.m., Shmuel Yaakov Kleiner, 60, of the 6000 block of Clover Road in the Glen neighborhood of Northwest Baltimore, was driving a 2003 Acura MDX on the first floor of the parking garage at 10490 Little Patuxent Parkway when it hopped a curb and struck the post, police said. Kleiner was medevaced to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in critical condition by Maryland State Police, police said.

A shooting and a double stabbing early Tuesday in two eastern Baltimore County neighborhoods have left three victims hospitalized. An unidentified man remains in critical condition after he was shot multiple times in Dundalk. In Essex, two unidentified men were stabbed during a fight. Police responded at 2:34 a.m. to reports of a confrontation in the 100 block of Kinship Road, near Dundalk Avenue. They located one victim, whose name and age were not released. He had sustained several gunshot wounds and was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital.

A 20-year-old man was shot Saturday night in Northwest Baltimore, police reported Sunday morning. Officers found the man in the 3000 block of Woodland Ave. suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and left arm, police said. The victim was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he was in critical condition, police said. Police said the victim had been at a block party on Woodland Ave. when he was approached by a person who pulled a handgun and opened fire after the two got into a verbal confrontation, police said.

City police are investigating a shooting in the northeast area early Thursday that has left the victim in critical condition. Officers discovered the 21-year-old man at 2:07 a.m. in the 1500 block of Wadsworth Way near the intersection with Loch Raven Boulevard. He had been shot in the torso and was taken to an area hospital for treatment. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts