First Degree Murder

Baltimore County police have charged Jeremiah Ezekiel Edwards, 19, of the 7400 block of Berkshire Road in Eastpoint, with first-degree murder and use of a handgun in a crime. Police say on Sept.16, Edwards shot Robert Charles Nelson, 24, of the 7900 block of Lansdale Road in Colgate. Officials responding to a call had found Nelson lying near the curb at Lange Street and Dalton Road. Nelson was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with he was pronounced dead. Police say Edwards is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center and was denied bail.

A 60-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Baltimore County police said Tuesday. Sam Davis , for whom no address was provided, was found Monday in Baltimore and arrested in the stabbing of Jacqueline Paul, 35, during what police described as an argument on the 300 block of Grovethorn Road in Middle River. He left after the incident, police said. Officers responding to a call about a cardiac arrest found Paul with multiple stab wounds.

A 19-year-old man was arrested in the fatal shooting of another teen last month during a large party at a Catonsville Ramada Inn, Baltimore County police said. Savion Devante Moore, 19, of no fixed address, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Kelvin Glasgow on Aug. 19, when police were called to 6422 Baltimore National Pike for a fight. Officers found Glasgow suffering from a gunshot wound in the rear parking lot, and he was pronounced dead on scene. Police said the party got out of hand, the hostess asked people to leave and several fights broke out in the parking lot. Police reviewed footage from hotel surveillance cameras that they said shows Moore firing the weapon.

Baltimore County police have charged a 54-year-old Randallstown man with first-degree murder, alleging he stabbed his girlfriend's son to death Sunday night with a "sword-type weapon. " James Thomas Haywood, 54, of the 3800 block of Pikeswood Drive in Randallstown, is accused of killing Andrew Maurice Fisher, 28, of the 7000 block of Windsor Mill Road in Lochearn. Court records show that Haywood was convicted in 1990 of attempted murder and in 2010 of misdemeanor theft. On Sunday, officers responded to the 3800 block of Pikeswood Drive for a report of a stabbing at around 10 p.m., said Baltimore County police spokeswoman Detective Cathy Batton.

The 14-year-old boy who Baltimore police say confessed to beating his grandmother with a hammer has been charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder, according to court records. At his bail review Friday morning, Hassanhii Garrett sat in the front row wearing a teal school shirt with his hands shackled behind him. At 5 feet 3 inches tall, he could pass for a boy several years younger. When a judge read the charges against him, a detainee in his 60s who was sitting behind the boy looked at him and shook his head in disbelief.

Baltimore County police on Monday announced the arrest over the weekend of Donnell Wilkins, 24, who was charged with first-degree murder in the killing of his sister's fiancé. Wilkins was arrested at the scene of the Dundalk crime shortly after it occurred early Saturday. Officers who were summoned to the 2900 block of Dunmurry Road found David Cleveland, 35, lying on the ground with multiple stab wounds in his back. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and died several hours later, police said.

A 43-year-old man who police say was stabbed more than 20 times last month by his stepson during an argument over money died late last week from his injuries, according to police and court records. Police say George Stevenson was able to call for help, and responding officers found him bleeding profusely in the living room of his apartment in the 1400 block of Limit Ave., suffering from stab wounds to his arm, chest and back. Stevenson said he had been stabbed with an unknown object by his stepson, 16-year-old Galen Stevenson, who then fled on foot, police said.

Baltimore County Police have charged a 20-year-old Baltimore man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a city funeral home director. Mark Brown Jr., of the 200 block of North Washington Street, in a neighborhood near Johns Hopkins Hospital known as C.A.R.E., is charged in the stabbing death of Phillip Weatherford on Monday in White Marsh. Weatherford had owned Phillip A. Weatherford Funeral Services on Oliver Street in the Broadway East neighborhood since June 2005.

A Dundalk man's missing persons case, which police have investigated since September, has been ruled a homicide, and a grand jury has charged two Middle River residents with the killing. Jeffrey Jennings, 57, of the 8100 block of Gray Haven Road, was reported missing on Sept. 15, when Jennings' son called police and said he hadn't heard from his father in nearly a week, according to police. Detectives from Baltimore County's Missing Persons Unit launched a months-long investigation, police said, and intercepted communications between John Leschefsky, 27, of Middle River and others that led police to believe Jennings was the victim of murder.

A 17-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the Halloween shooting of another teenager in Halethorpe, the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office said. Sterlin C. Matthews was being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center after his arrest in the killing of 16-year-old Daquan T. Burks, according to Garret Glennon, chief of the Circuit Court Division in the prosecutor's office. Burks was shot in the back on the night of Oct. 31 outside a rowhouse on Twin Circle Way. Glennon said two other people, Trekwan Woodard and Imean Shaheed, were also shot and were expected to survive.