Death

Gale Terera Roland, a Baltimore woman who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2010 shaking death of 10-month-old Micha Crane, was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week, with all but two years of the term suspended. Roland, 53, is to serve her time on home detention, according to the infant's mother, Danielle Crane, who said she was disappointed by the sentence. "I'm very frustrated," Crane said. "I think that the court system had no regards for my child's human life. " Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office, called Micha's death "a terrible tragedy and an enormous loss.

A male patient in his 30s was found dead in his room Thursday evening at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center, police said. The man was discovered by hospital staff shortly before 8 p.m., according to a statement by Maryland State Police spokesman Maj. Greg Shipley. Perkins is the state's maximum-security mental hospital, located in Jessup. The death has not been declared a homicide, but police are considering it as a possibility, Shipley said. Last week, a 22-year-old patient was killed at the facility.

A Glen Burnie teenager was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison for stabbing his mother to death last year, prosecutors said. William Joseph Skiratko, 18, who pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in December, was sentenced to life with all but 40 years suspended by Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Pamela L. North. According to prosecutors, Skiratko killed 45-year-old Elizabeth Anne Skiratko on April 20 because he disagreed with her rules. Officers found him playing video games at home with his mother's body in the next room, police said.

Maryland Transportation Authority Police continue to investigate the death of an East Baltimore man whose body was found early Sunday lying in the travel portion of northbound Interstate-895 (Harbor Tunnel Thruway) under the Eastern Avenue overpass in East Baltimore, said a police spokesman. Corporal Robert Thibodeau, the spokesman, said police received a 911 call about 2:45 a.m. that a man was lying in the roadway. who may have been struck by a vehicle. Thibodeau said the man, identified as Christian Peralta Cungachi, 23, of South Highland Avenue, was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.

The FBI is investigating a suspicious death aboard a cruise ship that sailed from Baltimore, the agency said Monday. Agents are unsure when the death occurred, but a spokesman said it was reported late Sunday. The deceased was a 62-year-old woman who sailed with her husband on the Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas, the FBI said. Details of what led to the woman's death, or whether she was from Maryland, were being investigated. cwells@baltsun.com twitter.com/cwells

Baltimore homicide detectives are investigating the death of an infant who was found in his Northeast Baltimore home Wednesday afternoon. The father of the four-month-old boy told investigators that he had put the child in his crib with a bottle and returned more than an hour later to find him face down and unresponsive. The child was rushed to Johns Hopkins Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m. The family's home is located on the 2100 block of Belair Road on the edge of the Four by Four neighborhood.

For five years, Adrienne Miranda has been on a crusade to prove that the death of her son - crushed under a Bobcat earthmover while on the job, his body face-down in the dirt under a hot summer sun - was no accident. The mother from Lutherville has made claims of shoddy detective work and has alleged a sweeping coverup by authorities who don't believe a crime was committed against her 19-year-old son, Joseph A. Miranda. She has irritated and at times angered a cadre of police, prosecutors and bureaucrats.

I find it very difficult to compare children losing their playmates to parents being bound, gagged and stabbed to death by a neighbor ("A sister arrives at a different view," Feb. 10). Whether John Booth-El wielded the knife or not, he still participated in a vicious attack that resulted in the deaths of two people he knew, and he is therefore just as guilty of their murder. Peggy Alley, Baltimore Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Prosecutors have charged a Baltimore man and his girlfriend in the beating death of his infant daughter. Emergency personnel responding to a report of a child not breathing on Dec. 19 arrived at the Belair-Edison neighborhood apartment of Jerome Jermain Wallace and Natarsha Farmer to find Wallace attempting to administer CPR to 22-month old Janaya Wallace. The child was taken to the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was pronounced dead a short time later, according to the charging documents.

Baltimore Sun blogger and theScore TV on-air personality Arda Ocal caught up with Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake recently. In the interview, Beefcake talks about watching Hulk Hogan play baseball as a kid, who came up with "The Barber" character and how he overcame the toughest moments of his life in the early 90s, when a parasailing accident almost claimed his life, both his parents passed away and he went through a divorce.