Elderly Woman

A single car crash in Gambrills Monday has claimed the life of an elderly female passenger and critically injured the driver. The car was traveling down the driveway to an underground parking garage at about 4:50 p.m., when it struck a wall of the building in the 2600 block of Chapel Lake Drive, police said. Both victims, who, police said, are related, were taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where the woman died. The elderly driver remains in critical condition.

A single car crash in Gambrills Monday has claimed the life of an elderly female passenger and critically injured the driver. The car was traveling down the driveway to an underground parking garage at about 4:50 p.m., when it struck a wall of the building in the 2600 block of Chapel Lake Drive, police said. Both victims, who, police said, are related, were taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where the woman died. The elderly driver remains in critical condition.

An elderly Greektown woman was attacked Friday night by a pit bull, whose owner has surrendered the dog to animal control officials. A year-old pit bull named Blue, owned by Henrietta Rouzer of the 700 block of Ponca St., bit the woman, who was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to city officials, who did not have information about the woman's condition Sunday. The dog is being kept at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, said Brian Schleter, a spokesman for the Baltimore City Health Department, which oversees the Bureau of Animal Control.

An elderly woman who was severely injured by her 14-year-old grandson in an attack with a hammer in March has died from her injuries, police said Thursday.  Shirley Garrett, 67, died over the weekend at Union Memorial Hospital, according to police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. She was repeatedly struck in the head with a hammer on March 31 by her grandson Hassanhii Garrett, who told police that he had become angry at her while getting ready for school.  He called 911, and police responding to the home in the 800 block of E. 34th St. found her face-down on the floor in a pool of blood.  The boy, who had no previous contacts with the juvenile justice system, was charged as an adult with attempted murder, but the case was remanded to juvenile court in August.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the son of a 91-year-old woman found stabbed to death in her Northeast Baltimore home was a close friend of her family and called the crime "devastating. " "I have known her son since I was a child — he was close friends with my family, so this is devastating. It's senseless," Rawlings-Blake said at a Thursday morning event. "My hope is that the work that was done, the forensic work, we'll be able to figure out who did this very soon and bring that person to justice.

Natalie Simmons stood in the fire-blackened kitchen of her mother's house in Windsor Mill on Monday morning and breathed a sigh of relief that the blaze hadn't been worse. "I'm already gearing myself up to see what needs to be done," she said, not long after her mother, Edna Simmons, 76, had jumped out a second-floor window and landed in a bush as smoke filled the house on Bexhill Road. "She was pale; she looked like she was in shock," the younger woman said, referring to the moment she saw her mother in an ambulance after being summoned by a police officer from her home around the corner.

An elderly woman was shot last night in a vehicle outside a Parkville senior apartment complex during an attempted carjacking, Baltimore County police said. The woman, believed to be in her 80s, suffered a graze wound to the torso and was treated at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and released, authorities said. There was no arrest. About 7:30 p.m., a gunman approached the vehicle outside the Park View at Taylor senior apartments in the 4100 block of Taylor Ave. and attempted to force the female passenger and her husband out and drive off. One occupant apparently rolled up a window and the gunman fired into the car, hitting the woman.

A robber pushed an elderly woman to the ground outside a senior citizens center in Columbia's Harper's Choice village Wednesday and took her purse, Howard County police said.The Columbia woman was not seriously injured and did not require medical attention, police said.About 8 a.m. Wednesday, the woman was walking near the Florence Bain Senior Center in the 5700 block of Harper's Farm Road when a man approached and knocked her down, police said.Police said the robber snatched her purse -- which contained cash, credit cards and other property -- and ran.The robber was described as a stocky black male in his midteens, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and wearing a blue jacket and black knit hat, police said.

An elderly woman was found dead by city firefighters last night in a burning rowhouse in Baltimore's Canton neighborhood. The fire in the 500 block of S. Streeper St. was reported about 9:30 p.m. by an unknown person calling 911, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a Fire Department spokesman. Firefighters arrived to find "thick smoke" billowing from the first floor, and discovered the woman's body as they searched the two-story dwelling, Cartwright said. The name and age of the woman -- apparently the only person in the rowhouse -- were unknown last night, but Cartwright described her as elderly.

Baltimore County police on Sunday identified Elisie Laura Green, 83, as the pedestrian victim of a fatal car crash that occurred Friday afternoon in Dundalk. Green, who lived on the 100 block of Center Place, was crossing from the west curb to the east curb of Dundalk Avenue, near the intersection with Baltimore Avenue, at about 5 p.m. when she was struck by a gold 1999 Saturn traveling northbound, police said. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Baltimore County police on Sunday identified Elisie Laura Green, 83, as the pedestrian victim of a fatal car crash that occurred Friday afternoon in Dundalk. Green, who lived on the 100 block of Center Place, was crossing from the west curb to the east curb of Dundalk Avenue, near the intersection with Baltimore Avenue, at about 5 p.m. when she was struck by a gold 1999 Saturn traveling northbound, police said. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.

Paramedic Kevin Hook's vehicle speeds up Lombard Street, weaving through traffic. His 7 a.m. shift as acting lieutenant at Baltimore's John F. Steadman Fire Station has just begun and Hook is monitoring dozens of calls scrolling down a monitor mounted on the dashboard of his SUV. There's an oil spill requiring a hazardous materials team to the east, a car crash to the west and a victim suffering from a stroke ahead on West Baltimore Street....

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said the son of a 91-year-old woman found stabbed to death in her Northeast Baltimore home was a close friend of her family and called the crime "devastating. " "I have known her son since I was a child — he was close friends with my family, so this is devastating. It's senseless," Rawlings-Blake said at a Thursday morning event. "My hope is that the work that was done, the forensic work, we'll be able to figure out who did this very soon and bring that person to justice.

A week after U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) grilled Transportation Security Administration Chief John Pistole over the absurdity of his agency's random pat-down system (which results in 6-year-old girls getting frisked while suspects on the terrorist watch list board planes unperturbed), the TSA is in the news again for another seemingly nonsensical body search.  A Florida woman, Jean Weber, says her wheelchair-bound, 95-year-old mother was forced to take off her adult diaper at Northwest Florida Regional Airport.

I am 14 years and just finishing the 8th grade at Parkville Middle School. I am also a Boy Scout and in the process of earning my Communications Merit Badge. As part of the requirements for this badge, I have to submit a editorial or comment to a local newspaper. I would like to comment on the reader who wrote to your newspaper about the difficulty in dealing with pit bulls — or anydogs — trained to attack ("Some dogs need to be put down," June 10). My family and I own a pit bull named Rex. I understand why the owners of Blue, the dog that injured an elderly woman in Greektown, would feel the need to put down their pit bull.

The barricades are already up closing off Ponca Street for St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church's popular festival this weekend. But a couple of blocks to the south, a neighborhood remains "traumatized," according to a community leader, after a 78-year-old woman was attacked outside her home Friday by a pit bull that ran across the street and bit her in the face. Athina Neofitou, a member of the church, remained in intensive care at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, said her son-in-law, Dennis Koulatsos.

If 71-year-old Irene Ebberts was murdered, it was a particularly heartless crime. The frail Catonsville woman weighed only 81 pounds. She lived alone with her heart problems and lung ailments, hooked up to an oxygen machine. She often kept to her bed, the spot where her brother found her body Oct. 19, 2001. But that "if" is in significant dispute, and it is a question jurors in Baltimore County's most recent death penalty case will decide. Prosecutors and police have their answer. They believe the frail woman was killed during a robbery.

An elderly Greektown woman was attacked Friday night by a pit bull, whose owner has surrendered the dog to animal control officials. A year-old pit bull named Blue, owned by Henrietta Rouzer of the 700 block of Ponca St., bit the woman, who was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to city officials, who did not have information about the woman's condition Sunday. The dog is being kept at Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter, said Brian Schleter, a spokesman for the Baltimore City Health Department, which oversees the Bureau of Animal Control.

A 57-year-old man died in a fire early Friday at a house in West Baltimore, according to authorities. Firefighters responded about 12:30 a.m. to the 2000 block of W. Lexington St. and found heavy fire coming from the rear of the home, according to Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. The man, identified as Jerome Bruno, was found unresponsive in a second-floor, rear room, suffering from burns and smoke inhalation. He was pronounced dead at the scene. An elderly woman was rescued from the home, along with an adult man who complained of chest pains.