Glen Burnie

Note: Due to a clerical error in the court record, an earlier version of this story provided incorrect information regarding the sentence issued. It has been corrected here. A Baltimore man was sentenced Monday to serve a day shy of nine years in prison for killing his half-brother in the parking lot of a Glen Burnie restaurant. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner imposed a 10-year sentence on Cornelius K. Johnson and suspended one year and a day of it, according to court records.

A 28-year-old man was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 fatal shooting of 31-year-old Sir Keith English Queen Jones, according to Anne Arundel County police said. Police said Carroll Leon Johnson, 28, of no fixed address, was arrested around 7 a.m. Tuesday near Oak Manor Drive in Glen Burnie. Court records indicate Johnson was ordered held without bail. Police had been called to the parking lot of Dietrich's Tavern in Glen Burnie around 5:21 p.m. Dec. 30 for a shooting, and found Jones suffering from gunshot wounds.

At the time the Second Amendment was written, the killing rate of a rifle was about three people per minute. Today, the Bushmaster can slaughter 500 people per minute. So is banning assault weapons really a chipping away of gun crazies' rights, or instead has there been 200 years of incremental piling-on of unintended "killing rights" which need to be checked? Bob Bruninga, Glen Burnie Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

An older couple visiting Maryland from West Virginia were robbed at gunpoint at their Glen Burnie hotel on Saturday afternoon after a gunman pretended he was on the hotel maintenance staff, Anne Arundel County Police said Monday. The victims, both 70, were staying at the Hampton Inn in the 6600 block of Ritchie Highway when the man knocked on their hotel room door, police said. The couple opened the door for the man and he entered and pulled out a handgun, pointing it at the couple, police said.

A 27-year-old Glen Burnie woman charged with gun possession late last month in a death investigation in which her father was charged with first-degree murder has now been charged with murder as well, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Police said the new charge was filed after investigators "gathered probable cause" to implicate the woman in the killing, but they did not disclose what that cause was. Erica Tywanda Banks, 27, of the 7300 block of Green Acres Drive, was spotted by police in the early morning hours of Jan. 27 sitting in a vehicle near the intersection of Tanyard Cove Road and Marley Neck Boulevard in Glen Burnie, along with 24-year-old Tremain Celos Calhoun, of Pasadena, police said.

A 22-year-old Glen Burnie man is in custody for allegedly strangling his 62-year-old great aunt to death Tuesday in the 300 block of Gatewater Court, police said. Brandon Zachary Duncan is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Dianna Lee Fitzwater. Duncan is under a guard's watch at a local hospital for unrelated issues, police said Thursday. Police responded to a call at 11:44 p.m. Tuesday and found Fitzwater's body. A witness at the house reported that she and Duncan woke around 11:30 p.m. and went to the living room, where they found the victim unresponsive.

A 23-year-old man was shot in Glen Burnie on Monday night after he tried to flee an armed man who approached his vehicle and announced a robbery, Anne Arundel County Police said Tuesday. The victim may have been targeted and the shooting was "not a random act of violence," police said. Police responded to Baltimore Washington Medical Center about 9:40 p.m. and found the victim, who had driven himself to the hospital, with a gunshot wound, police said. The victim told police he was sitting in his parked vehicle in the 7800 block of Southhampton Drive when the armed man approached the car. The victim said he tried to drive away, and the man fired into his vehicle before fleeing into a wooded area, police said.

Restricting guns from law-abiding citizens (exclusive of the mentally ill) is an assault on our rights as Americans that cannot be tolerated. Historically, the very first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired over the British trying to confiscate weapons from the colonists. Subsequent to the Revolutionary War, implicit in the debate between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists was the assumption that that the federal government should not have any authority at all to disarm the citizenry.

A gas leak in Glen Burnie caused the temporary evacuation of about a dozen residents and left nine homes without gas Wednesday evening, Anne Arundel County fire officials said. A fire department spokesman said Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. would likely restore gas to the nine affected homes by the end of Wednesday, and that the residents had all made arrangements to stay elsewhere overnight. The 6-inch gas line in the 500 block of Delmar Avenue was accidentally ruptured about 4 p.m. when contractors were working to fix a water main break, BGE officials said.