Fatal Shooting

Baltimore police on Monday morning were investigating a pair of shootings from Sunday evening. A 22-year-old man walked into St. Agnes Hospital shortly after 10 p.m. with a gunshot wound in the leg, police spokesman Sgt. Anthony Smith said. He had been shot a short time earlier in the 2800 block of Annapolis Road in the Westport neighborhood of South Baltimore. The wound was considered minor, Smith said. A 54-year-old man walked into Sinai Hospital at about 5:45 p.m. with a gunshot wound in the torso, Smith said.

A rare spate of shootings in Baltimore City this year that did not result in death ended on Friday night when a person was shot in the Brooklyn neighborhood, police said. Two other people were shot and killed overnight, police said. Another was stabbed to death. As of Saturday morning, police had few details on the Brooklyn shooting, which happened at around 7:45 p.m. in the 500 block of E. Patapsco Avenue. Police could not immediately confirm the death, but homicide detectives were on their way to the scene.

A Glen Burnie man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the first-degree murder of a man outside a bar in Glen Burnie, according to a spokeswoman for the Anne Arundel County prosecutors. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Ronald A. Silkworth ordered that Clayton A. Battle, 35, begin his sentence after he completes an eight-year prison term on a drug conviction. Battle pleaded guilty last February to fatally shooting Kelly T. Fisher, a 30-year-old Glen Burnie resident, outside Dietrich's Tavern on Dec. 4, 2010.

Anne Arundel County police detectives are consulting with county prosecutors as they continue to investigate the fatal Christmas morning shooting by a Glen Burnie store employee of a man he said broke in, police said. Police said they were at the Arundel County Coin Shop in the 7400 block of Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard four previous times in December, including for a report of a possible break-in early Dec. 10 and for an alarm sounding about 4 a.m. Sunday. They said they also checked a vehicle near there at 12:45 a.m. Monday.

Police in Carroll County on Tuesday evening fatally shot a man who is said to have approached an officer wielding a hammer, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. Taneytown Police Chief William Tyler said in a prepared statement that officers responded to an incident shortly after 8:30 p.m., on Commerce Drive, after receiving a 911 call. The callers reported that their son had been drinking and acting erratically. The caller's father said that his son was smashing the windows of his truck with a hammer.

Baltimore County police on Monday identified the officer who fatally shot a man who police said was wielding a knife and couldn't be stopped with a Taser. They said Officer Farrelly, an eight-year veteran of the department, was the officer involved and has not previously been involved in other departmental shootings. He is in the patrol division at Precinct No., 1, Wilkens, according to police. His first name was not released. The officer was placed on administrative leave, a routine practice for officer-involved shootings.

Baltimore police named a 19-year-old man Tuesday as the suspect in an early-November killing in Northeast Baltimore, warning the public that he remains on the loose, "armed and extremely dangerous. " Police detectives and the U.S. Marshals Service are looking for Tavon Barnett, who they say fatally shot 29-year-old Terrance Seale on Nov. 3 in his apartment in the New Northwood neighborhood. Seale's wife, Marie, and sons, ages 3 and 5, were in the home and witnessed the shooting, Marie Seale said.

A Baltimore jury on Monday afternoon acquitted Keith X. Holly Jr., 23, who was accused of murdering James Ingram, 46, two years ago. Holly had denied committing the crime, and his public defender argued that it was committed by another man, Donte Collins, who has since been killed. The state's case "just doesn't make sense," said Denise Winston, the defender, during closing arguments. Prosecutors relied on the testimony of Renee Barnes, Collins' mother and a longtime friend of Ingram's; Yvette Edwards, a neighbor; and Latia Moses, Collins' girlfriend and the mother of his child.

One man was killed and two were injured in three separate shootings in Baltimore on Sunday, according to city police. Officers responded about 3:38 p.m. to the 3000 block of Wolcott Avenue for a report of a shooting and found a man with at least one gunshot wound to the upper body, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman. The man was transported to an area hospital, where he died, Silbert said. Police had not released the man's name as of late Sunday. An investigation led police to believe the shooting occurred in the 3900 block of Woodhaven Avenue, on the edge of the Forest Park neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore.

A woman was found fatally stabbed Monday evening inside a home in Pigtown, one of several recent violent incidents being investigated by Baltimore police. Police also were probing three fatal shootings that occurred Saturday and Sunday, including a home-invasion robbery that killed a 26-year-old man near Lake Ashburton and the killing of a 29-year-old man in front of his wife and young children in Northeast Baltimore. Police also confirmed that a 32-year-old downtown resident suffered skull fractures during an attack in the middle of the afternoon Friday near the 1st Mariner Arena and Bromo Seltzer tower, and said a 75-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint that morning in Fells Point.