Fatal Shooting

What appeared to have been a strained association - rife with abuse and violence - ended in Laurel on Sept. 14 in a murder-suicide that was witnessed by the young children of the murder victim. According to Laurel and Prince George's County police officials, 38-year-old Javan Terrance Abney, of Washington, shot 26-year-old Brandice Marie Jones multiple times in a parking lot outside her home on Shiloh Court in front of her three children and other witnesses. Jones was pronounced dead on the scene.

A Baltimore police sergeant who claimed he was never treated for post-traumatic stress disorder after he fatally shot a man in 2005 has settled a lawsuit against the city, in a deal that allows him to retire with his pension, according to court documents and his attorney. Under terms of the settlement, Richard A. Willard, 45, dropped the federal suit and a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the Police Department canceled an administrative hearing that could have led to his termination.

City police have made an arrest in a double-shooting Wednesday that killed a 31-year-old man - charging a 19-year-old man who relatives say was part of a youth mentoring program the victim worked with.  Antomar Jones has been charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder for the shooting in the 5700 block of Nasco Place that killed Corey Jamal Alexander and injured a second 31-year-old man. Police say Jones was in the backseat of a...

A teenager was shot in the left buttock late Saturday night after an argument between two groups of men escalated in East Baltimore, police said Sunday. The 19-year-old victim was sent to Johns Hopkins Hospital with injuries believed to be non-life-threatening, said Det. Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The teenager and his friends were walking home from a party when they were approached by other men and the two groups began arguing, Moses said. The second group ran off, then returned, and one of the men in that group fired a handgun at the 19-year-old and his friends, the detective said.

Baltimore City police are investigating a fatal shooting in the 200 block of N. Smallwood St. overnight. Police said officers arrived at Bon Secours Hospital at 12:48 a.m. Sunday after they received a report of a shooting. They found Dayon Barnes, 27, receiving treatment for multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Due to the severity of his injuries, Barnes was transferred to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died at 1:48 a.m., police said. Detectives believe that Barnes was sitting in a car in the 200 block of N. Smallwood St., in the Penrose/Fayette Street Outreach area, when he was shot.

City police are on the scene of a homicide in Northwest Baltimore's Windsor Hills neighborhood, after a body was discovered on a quiet residential street this morning. The body was found in the 2900 block of Haverford Road, and police reported at about 10:50 a.m. that a man had been shot.  A source said the victim was 62 years old and was shot in the head. He did not appear to be from the neighborhood, the source said, but other details remained under investigation. Zakiya Jefferson, 26, said she heard two gunshots and thought they had come from a distance.

Prince George's County police have arrested a Fort Washington man in the fatal shooting of his nephew. The killing occurred about 3 a.m. Sunday. Police responded to a report of a shooting on Loughran Road and found 28-year-old Stephan Osborne of Hyattsville suffering from a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Osborne's uncle, 46-year-old Kris Jones, was arrested at the scene and charged with second-degree murder. Police say the shooting stemmed from a personal dispute between the two men. Jones is being held without bond.

SALISBURY - Police are seeking information about the shooting death of a Salisbury man. Twenty-two-year-old Gregory Wright was fatally shot Friday night inside his home on East Booth Street. State police say Wright was sitting in the living room when two men walked in the front door. One of them was armed with a handgun and shot Wright several times. The men left and took the gun with them. Wright's girlfriend, his girlfriend's mother and the mother's two other children were home at the time and were not injured.

City prosecutors have cleared two police officers of criminal wrongdoing in a March 2010 shooting in Northwest Baltimore that killed an unarmed police informant, according to a memo released by the office. Donald J. Giblin, chief of the Baltimore state's attorney's homicide division, said in a letter dated March 16 that a review of evidence "supports the finding that the officers fired their weapons because they reasonably believed that they and/or others were in imminent danger of suffering great bodily harm or loss of life.

A DNA match led police to make a second arrest in the abduction and murder of a 24-year-old man found shot to death in a West Baltimore alley last April, according to court records. Aaron J. Davis, 24, faces 23 criminal charges in connection with the death of Qonta Waddell, who was hogtied and carried away from his mother's home by two men with handguns. Waddell was later found shot to death in the 3100 block of Windsor Ave. Charging documents say the men took $3,000 from Waddell and drove him around the city trying to scrounge up more cash.

The gun used in the killings at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Ellicott City last week was registered to the homeless man who allegedly shot two women and then himself, Howard County police said Monday. The gun was found near the body of Douglas Franklin Jones, 56, in woods next to the church. Police said he shot the Rev. Mary-Marguerite Kohn, 62, a co-rector of the church, and Brenda Brewington, 59, a church administrator, before turning the gun on himself. A church custodian found the two women shot in a church office and called police about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, police said.

Three men were shot in separate shootings Tuesday night in Baltimore, according to police. The first, who appeared to have shot himself, died, police said. The conditions of the other two men were not immediately available, police said. Shortly before 7:30 p.m., officers responded to a home in the 900 block of Iris Avenue in the East Baltimore neighborhood of Orangeville to find a man dead from a gunshot wound to the head, according to Sgt. Valencia Nock, a police spokeswoman.

Anne Arundel County Police have identified the officer who shot a Gambrills man to death in the man's home last week as Timothy Peek, a four-year member of the force assigned to patrol services. Peek was responding to a report of a domestic assault in the 800 block of Frost Valley Lane on Friday afternoon when he became involved in a "physical altercation" with resident Gary Petrie, police said. They said Peek was "in fear for his life" when he shot Petrie in the upper body. Petrie, 56, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died of his injuries, police said.

A 34-year-old West Baltimore man became the 50 t h person killed in the city this year after he was shot in the Druid Heights neighborhood on Saturday. Phillip Scott died after being shot multiple times in front of a house in the 1900 block of Etting Street, police said Sunday. Officers responding to a report of shots being fired at 8:20 p.m. found Scott, of the 1800 block of Etting Street, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the body, police spokesman Donny Moses said.

A person was fatally shot Thursday afternoon in a Glen Burnie home, police said. Around 3 p.m., Anne Arundel County police were called to a residence in the 1500 block of Furnace Ave., a police spokesman said. Homicide detectives were questioning another person who was in the home when detectives arrived, according to police. No other information, including the sex of the deceased, was made available by 6:45 p.m. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

A tragic fatal shooting of a 4-year-old boy who police said accidentally shot himself and his mother earlier this month in their Eastern Shore house has led to criminal charges filed against the father. The boy, Jamal A. Woolford Jr., accidentally shot himself with his father's handgun inside their Hebron home, police said, and the same bullet struck his mother, Shanice A. Kellam, 24. Jamal died from a gunshot wound to the chest. On Monday, Maryland State Police said a Wicomico County grand jury indicted the boy's father, Jamal A. Woolford Sr., 29, with manslaughter, reckless endangerment, permitting firearm access by a minor, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and other drug counts.

A teenager has been charged in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy during a dispute last month in Lansdowne, Baltimore County police said Monday. Armando Cele Hernandez, 16, of the first block of Birdnest Court was charged as an adult with first-degree murder. Police have said the victim, Keon Dobbs, 17, was found lying face-down in a vestibule of a house, suffering from a shotgun wound. The shooting occurred about 2:30 p.m. March 22 and prompted authorities to lock down two nearby schools.

Say what you will about the controversies the Baltimore Police Department has found itself embroiled in over the years, but we can say definitely that they're not involved in the Trayvon Martin case. That's the Sanford Police Department, outside Orlando, Fla. battling a national firestorm of criticism over its handling of the fatal shooting of the unarmed teen by a neighborhood watch captain.  But in a segment on Comedy Central's Daily Show last night, an image of a city police car somehow found its way into the background of a graphic that read "SANFORD POLICE.

Seven people were shot, one fatally, over the weekend in Baltimore, according to police. The shootings, starting Friday night, continued into Sunday afternoon. A 25-year-old man died in the first shooting, Friday night, which occurred about 11:05 p.m. in the 3500 block of West Belvedere Ave. Another shooting occurred on Boarman Avenue early Saturday, followed by shootings on West Lafayette Avenue and East Belvedere Avenue. On Sunday, a man was shot during a domestic dispute on Benzinger Road, another was shot on Cummings Court and a third victim of the day walked into Good Samaritan Hospital with a gunshot wound.