Fatal Stabbing

A Northwest Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to 33 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of his 17-year-old half-brother during a drunken brawl on their mother's front porch in July, according to Baltimore prosecutors. Eric Little, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a weapons violation in the death of Calvin Ray. According to charging documents, their mother, Sharon Brown, had broken up a fight by stepping between her sons. But as Brown spoke with Ray, Little went inside the house, grabbed a knife from the kitchen, returned to the porch and stabbed Ray in the upper chest, prosecutors said.

For more than a quarter-century, Ben David Ross has been sought by Baltimore police. Yesterday, the law caught up to him in a Bronx, N.Y., apartment -- 27 years after he was charged with fatally stabbing a furniture mover.Members of a federal task force that scours area streets for people wanted by police said Ross had been a fugitive longer than any other suspect in a homicide sought by Baltimore police.Ross, 57, is charged in a warrant with first-degree murder in the Feb. 1, 1971, fatal stabbing of Robert Bernard Jones, a 31-year-old West Baltimore man who police said was killed shortly after a night of drinking at a now-defunct bar on Westwood Avenue.

JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian laborer was stabbed to death in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood yesterday in what the police said was apparently an act of revenge for the fatal stabbing of a yeshiva student in the Old City last week.The construction worker, Khayri Alqam, 51, a father of nine, was stabbed in the back about 5: 30 a.m. on his way to work in the Beit Yisrael neighborhood, a short walk from East Jerusalem.At the crime scene the police found evidence, which they would not disclose, that they said linked the attack to the killing of the yeshiva student.

A 27-year-old Hillendale man has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his wife Saturday on the eve of her 31st birthday.Anthony Lee Davenport of the 6600 block of Ellsmere Place was arrested and held without bail at the Towson Precinct after questioning. He is scheduled in court today for a bail review hearing.His wife, Katanya Denise Davenport, 30, was pronounced dead of stab wounds about 5:50 p.m. Saturday, Baltimore County police said.Police said Mrs. Davenport's oldest child, Tamara Sophia Rose Fisher, 10, was among several people who called 911 about a domestic dispute involving the couple.

A 17-year-old Hampstead youth, charged with stabbing his mother to death early yesterday, was ordered held without bond for a psychiatric evaluation.Timothy Kevin Fick, a senior at North Carroll High School, sat before a court commissioner in the Carroll County Courthouse Annex for a 30-minute bail hearing in the afternoon, alternately sobbing and staring at the ceiling and wall.He is accused in the slaying of his mother, Jean Kellogg Fick, 57.Charges against him include first-degree murder, second-degree murder, assault with intent to kill, resisting arrest and two counts of battery.

ROSEDALE -- Baltimore County police arrested a Rosedale woman early today and charged her with the fatal stabbing of her sister.Arrested shortly after midnight at her home in the 6000 block of St. Regis Road was Cynthia Askew, 25. She was being held at the White Marsh District without bail on charges of first degree murder, police said. Weapons charges are pending.Police said the accused and her sister, Samantha Brown, 27, who also lived in the house, were arguing in their living room around 1 a.m. when the accused allegedly went into the kitchen and retrieved a butcher knife and stabbed her sister in the left arm and chest.

A 16-year-old Millersville boy charged with killing another youth in an argument over a bicycle tire was ordered held without bond Friday after a hearing in Anne Arundel Circuit Court.Steven C. Barrett Jr., of the 8300 block of Brookwood Road, is charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing during an argument in front of an Elvaton Acres home.Charles H. Cross, 16, of the 8300 block of Oakwood Road, died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.Police said the Barrett youth, his sister Jenny, and his girlfriend, Wendy Rice, were in the Rice home in the 200 block of Poplar Road about 7:50 p.m. Oct. 6 when Ms. Rice went outside to talk to young Cross.

A 27-year-old East Baltimore man was to appear today at a bail review hearing in District Court following first-degree murder charges in connection with the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend over the weekend, police said.Charged also with possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony is Duane A. Price, of the 2800 block of Harford Road.Mr. Price, according to police, is charged with killing Stacey Platt, 26, of the 2700 block of E. Preston St., during an argument Saturday night in the victim's home.

A woman charged in the fatal stabbing of her former boyfriend as he sat in a van at a traffic light in southeast Baltimore surrendered last night and was being held without bond.Homicide Detective Richard Garvey said Juanita Felicia Brown, 31, of the 2700 block of Mosher St., surrendered at the Northwestern District station about 11 p.m.Garvey said Brown had been sought in the death of Ulysses Harris Jr., 34, of the 4400 block of Vesta Ave., who died Tuesday evening from stab wounds to the chest.

Police in Salisbury today were searching for a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a Salisbury State University freshman who was killed at a local mall last night.Meanwhile, fellow students and college officials attempted to deal with the grief that spread across the Eastern Shore campus.The college's president, Thomas E. Bellavance, said today: "I'm very, very angry, in addition to being stunned and saddened. This girl had made lots of friends. She was at a mall, in the evening, with her friends.

Annapolis teen reports rape near vacant home A 14-year-old girl told Annapolis police that she was raped Monday evening outside a vacant home in the 200 block of Admiral Drive. The girl told police that her attacker ran away after he assaulted her about 10:30 p.m. The girl fled to her home, where police were called. The investigation is continuing. - Andrea F. Siegel Columbia woman enters Alford plea to assault A 39-year-old Columbia woman entered an Alford plea for second-degree assault Tuesday in Howard County Circuit Court.

A 21-year-old man who police say is in the country illegally was arrested yesterday and charged in the stabbing death of a man last month in East Baltimore. Police also made an arrest in another fatal stabbing that occurred at a Hampden bar over the weekend. Eddy M. Castillo-Diaz, a native of Honduras who lists an address in the 100 block of N. Ellwood Ave., is charged with first-degree murder, assault and a weapons count in the death of Jose Escobar-Pena, who was stabbed in the abdomen just after 2 a.m. Feb. 22 in the 3500 block of Eastern Ave. Police arrested Lewis Brock, 27, of the 900 block of Bethune Road in an incident Sunday in which one man was killed and another injured.

A Northwest Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to 33 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of his 17-year-old half-brother during a drunken brawl on their mother's front porch in July, according to Baltimore prosecutors. Eric Little, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a weapons violation in the death of Calvin Ray. According to charging documents, their mother, Sharon Brown, had broken up a fight by stepping between her sons. But as Brown spoke with Ray, Little went inside the house, grabbed a knife from the kitchen, returned to the porch and stabbed Ray in the upper chest, prosecutors said.

Man found fatally shot in road on Pulaski Highway 3 A man was found shot to death on Pulaski Highway in White Marsh on Sunday night, and Baltimore County police were seeking the public's help yesterday in identifying him. Police said the man was found shortly before 11 p.m. by a passer-by who thought the man had been struck by a vehicle near Stevens Road. An autopsy yesterday morning determined that the man had been shot once, police said. Police declined to say where on his body the man had been shot.

With his hands cuffed behind him and his feet in leg irons, 14-year-old Timothy Oxendine was escorted by a correctional officer yesterday into a Baltimore Circuit courtroom, where he pleaded not guilty in the fatal stabbing of a teenager at a West Baltimore middle school last month. Oxendine was charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the stabbing of Markel Williams, 15, on Nov. 21. Williams' body was found outside William H. Lemmel Middle School. Oxendine surrendered to police several hours after the incident.

Man is stabbed during a fight in Catonsville A man was stabbed in Catonsville early yesterday during a fight among a group of young men that started as an argument over a woman, Baltimore County police said. The victim was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, said Bill Toohey, a police spokesman. Police did not identify the victim. The altercation, reported about 4:30 a.m. in the 100 block of Hillside Road, involved men who fought with knives, pipes and poles, Toohey said.

A man was fatally stabbed about 5 p.m. yesterday during an apparent robbery attempt at a Catonsville gas station, according to Baltimore County police. The victim was stabbed multiple times in the chest at Carroll Fuel in the 5200 block of Baltimore National Pike, said Cpl. Patrick Wilhelm. The man was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead an hour later. Wilhelm said the victim was a customer at the store and that police were searching for the attacker, who reportedly was seen running away the gas station.

Man, 22, wounded in shooting A Harford County man was shot in the head Sunday evening while walking through an Edgewood neighborhood, according to the county Sheriff's Office. The victim, DuShawn Bennett, 22, of the 1900 block of Edgewater Drive in Edgewood, was walking near Hanson Road and Longwood Court about 11:15 p.m. when he was approached by three males, said Sgt. David Betz, a spokesman for the Sheriff's Office. "A conversation ensued, he began to leave, then he was shot," Betz said.

A 41-year-old man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder yesterday as part of a plea agreement stemming from a fatal stabbing in a city home last June. Mark Brooks of the 2200 block of Clifton Ave. could receive a prison term of 25 years with no more than 15 years suspended when he is sentenced Aug. 10 by Baltimore Circuit Court Judge Wanda K. Heard, according to the city state's attorney's office. Natasha Sarchiapone, 26, of the 2000 block of Griddle Ave, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and first-degree breaking and entering.

Police identify woman found slain in home Baltimore County police said yesterday they had no suspects in the fatal stabbing of a woman whose body was found Monday night in her townhouse, where there were signs that someone had come into or left the home through its attic. The woman was identified yesterday as Chontae Waters, 31. She was found with what appeared to be multiple stab wounds in her home in the first block of Heatherton Court in the Putnam Green community near Woodlawn, police said.