Fatal Shooting

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.

Police identified a man killed in a Baltimore County shooting Friday as Jermaine Vendell Dalton, 38, of the 2800 block of Hollins Ferry Road. Baltimore County Police and Fire crews responded to a report of a shooting in the 3800 block of McDowell Lane in Halethorpe shortly before midnight, police said. Dalton was discovered with at least one gunshot wound and was transported to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center where he later died, police said. The Baltimore County Police Homicide Unit is investigating this incident but they had no suspect information Monday morning.

Two 18-year-old men have been arrested in the fatal shooting of another man in Pasadena early Saturday morning, Anne Arundel County police said Sunday. Ronald Lee McLeod, of Columbia, and Daniel Alex Savage, of Glen Burnie, have been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting of Matthew Morrow, 21, who died at an area hospital after being found with gunshot wounds in the 7000 block of Outing Avenue about 1:30 a.m. Another man — whom The Sun confirmed to be mixed martial arts fighter Darren Costa, 20 — was also found shot and was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

The victim found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in Northwest Baltimore on Sunday night was a 16-year-old city girl, Baltimore police said Monday night. Ahjee Harrod, of the 2800 block of East Federal Street in East Baltimore, was pronounced dead in the 6300 block of Fairlawn Avenue about 10:05 p.m. Sunday, police said. Police had first responded to the scene after receiving a report of gunfire about 9:58 p.m. Police were also investigating multiple shootings that occurred Monday.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting late Monday of a 43-year-old man who was found inside his Northwest Baltimore home by a relative.  The relative was sleeping in the home in the 2800 block of Quantico Ave. and heard a noise, then heard footsteps coming from the stairwell.  After going downstairs, he returned to the second floor and found Sean Melton Sr. lying in a doorway suffering from a gunshot wound to his upper body. Melton was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead just before midnight.

A man shot and killed by a Baltimore County police officer in Dundalk early Sunday morning was identified as a 22-year-old from Texas. Police said Joshua Michael Lopez, 22, of La Marque, Texas, was shot after he became combative when officers tried to interview him in response to calls for a suspicious person in the area of Seaside Road and Dunmanway about 2:21 a.m. A Navy spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Lopez was stationed with USS Vella Gulf...