NEWS
By ARIN GENCER | October 8, 2007
Four men were shot - one of them fatally - at a basketball court Saturday morning in Southeast Baltimore. Damon Coleman, 35, of the 2700 block of E. Hoffman St. was shot in the chin area and was later pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a Baltimore police spokeswoman. The three other men suffered minor injuries, police said. One was shot in the lower back, another in the shoulder and both legs and the third was shot in the mouth. Police found three of the victims, including the man who died, about 6 a.m. lying on the east side of the basketball court in a public housing project in the 1400 block of May Court, Monroe said.
NEWS
By From staff reports | May 14, 1999
In Baltimore CityMan fatally shot while sitting in van in North BaltimorePolice were investigating the death of an unidentified man who was fatally shot last night while seated in a van in North Baltimore, police said.Detective Bobby Patton said residents of the 4800 block of Old York Road near Richwood Avenue in Govans heard gunshots about 11 p.m. and called police. Patton said officers found the victim seated behind the wheel of a white, late-model Ford Econovan, his upper body lying across the passenger seat.
NEWS
October 22, 1999
An article in yesterday's editions of The Sun reported that Sgt. Stephen R. Pagotto was the only city police officer convicted of a fatal shooting in the line of duty. The article did not note that Pagotto's conviction was overturned by the Court of Special Appeals, the state's second-highest court. The state is appealing that ruling to the Court of Appeals, which has not heard arguments.
NEWS
April 18, 1999
A Howard County grand jury indicted a Columbia man Thursday on murder and attempted murder charges in the fatal shooting of his estranged wife and the wounding of her daughter.Tuse S. Liu, 49, is accused of killing So Shan Chan, 52, in the parking lot of the Howard County Circuit Court on March 11.Chan's daughter, Wing Sau Wu, 26, was released from Maryland Shock Trauma Center on March 26.Liu is being held without bail at a state psychiatric hospital in Jessup. Officials are awaiting the results of a psychiatric exam.
NEWS
By From staff reports | October 14, 1999
In Baltimore CityHopkins to offer students inoculations for flu, meningitisThe Johns Hopkins University is offering students at the school's Homewood campus inoculations today against meningococcal meningitis and influenza. No outbreak of meningitis has been reported at Hopkins and the shots are preventive.Shots will be given in the Clipper Room of Shriver Hall and the reading room of Alumni Memorial Residence One between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. The cost is $75 for the meningitis vaccine and $10 for the flu shot.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | November 15, 1999
Police said yesterday they had no suspect and knew of no motive in the fatal shooting of a Northeast Baltimore man late Friday.Jerard Swann, 28, was shot by an unknown assailant about 11: 30 p.m. in the 2000 block of E. Oliver St., police said. Swann, of the 5900 block of Daywalt Ave. in the Frankford area, was pronounced dead at 12: 06 a.m. Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital.Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Baltimore City homicide squad at 410-396-2100.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | January 19, 1999
A first-degree murder warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of a suspect in the fatal shooting of another man in Southeast Baltimore early Saturday, police said.Responding to a report of shots fired in the 100 block of N. Port St. about 1 a.m. Saturday, police found the body of Bobby Raymond Hurt, 37, lying in front of his home. He had been shot at least once in the head and was pronounced dead at the scene.Witnesses told police that Hurt and another man were arguing shortly before the shooting.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | January 27, 1999
Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly ruled yesterday that the fatal shooting of a teen-ager by his 14-year-old brother Jan. 11 was accidental and that no charges would be filed.James Ashby, 13, was killed when a rifle held by his brother, Jerry Ashby Jr., discharged in the bedroom of their home in the 700 block of Craigs Corner Road.Cassilly said the boys were home with an 18-year-old sister and her infant when they took one of the family's rifles from a gun cabinet. He said the older brother believed he had unloaded the rifle at the time it discharged, fatally striking the younger teen-ager.
NEWS
BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | August 23, 1998
No charge has been lodged in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man by a private security guard at an Essex apartment complex late Friday, but the incident will be reviewed by the Baltimore County state's attorney's office, police said yesterday.Killed in the 10: 30 p.m. incident was William Simmons, who lived nearby in the 1600 block of Rickenbacker Road.According to accounts given to police, Simmons approached two guards working for Flagship Security at the Tall Trees complex just after they had stepped out of their vehicles, and asked for a ride.
NEWS
By Joan Jacobson and Richard Irwin | March 30, 1998
A man who was paralyzed when he was shot in 1990 was shot to death Saturday night as he and two friends were talking on a West Baltimore street, police said yesterday.Reginald Roane, 29, of the 3600 block of Garrison Blvd., who used a wheelchair, and two male friends were talking in the 1900 block of W. Lanvale St. about 11: 30 p.m. when a masked gunman came out of an alley and shot Roane several times in the chest, police said.A friend, Raymond Faidley, 18, of the 1700 block of N. Washington St., was shot in the left calf, police said.