Grandmother

A 36-year-old man was ordered held without bail Tuesday after being arrested and charged with killing his grandmother inside her Northwest Baltimore home, according to city police and court records. Demond Tyler was charged with first- and second-degree murder and assault in the death of Shirley Tyler, 67, who was found by a family member Saturday morning unconscious inside her home in the 3200 block of Spaulding Ave. in Central Park Heights. Her death had not been previously reported because at the time it was listed as a suspicious death.

Brian and Nicole Dougherty of Pylesville, announce the birth of their son, Oliver Westley Dougherty. Born July 31 at 8:47 p.m., he weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces and measured 21.5 inches. Grandparents are Albert and Ila Dukes, of Bel Air; Dave and Peg Dougherty, of Pylesville; and great-grandmother is Margaret Dougherty, of Pylesville.

The case of a 14-year-old Baltimore boy, who allegedly confessed to beating his grandmother with a hammer this spring, will be heard in juvenile court. Hassanhii Garrett had been charged as an adult with attempted murder in the attack, which police said occurred after he became enraged while getting ready for school one morning. He was scheduled for trial Monday, but online court records show that the case was remanded to juvenile court on Aug. 1. Under state law, teens 14 and older who are accused of certain violent crimes must be charged as adults from the outset.

I got the news in Florida this morning that Bubba Smith had died. I couldn't help but smile as I recalled a true story that happened while I still lived in Baltimore. My brother, Dr. I. Norton Brotman was a well known dentist in Baltimore - he was the Colts dentist in their heyday. He was instrumental in designing mouth guards for the team as well as caring for any dental problems that arose. My father, Dr. Robert H. Brotman, also a well known dentist in Baltimore, received a phone call one Sunday, and the male voice asked for Bubba.

Martha O. Roseman, a retired Johns Hopkins University associate dean of academic advising who was recalled as a "grandmother" of the Homewood campus, died of cancer July 22 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Pikesville resident was 90. Born Martha Ozrowitz in Brooklyn, N.Y., she earned a degree at the Bernard Baruch School of Business, a branch of the City College of New York. In an autobiographical sketch, she recalled taking additional courses at the school's 135th Street campus, which was not coed and where she said she was "surrounded by 5,000 male undergraduates.

It could be said that Sheila Song's choice of career as a geriatric pharmacist is in herblood. For it is the close relationship the Carney resident has long shared with her grandmother, Cheng Soon Song, now 89, who had a major role in Song's upbringing, and who led Song to see that there is both need and reward in working with the elderly. The Loch Raven High School graduate, Song, 25, recently earned her Doctorate of Pharmacy after completing an intensive four-year program at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy in Baltimore.

One of the region's nightmares — the kidnapping and murder of an 11-year-old girl on Maryland's Eastern Shore during Christmas 2009 — came to its public conclusion Tuesday morning at the Elkton courthouse. The accused killer, a 31-year-old convicted sex offender named Thomas Leggs, pleaded guilty and received life in prison without the possibility of parole. The family of the victim, Sarah Foxwell, had asked the state not to pursue capital punishment. "The Foxwell family has told me that they do not want a lifetime of anguish and appeals, due to the extreme stress, havoc and grief the death of Sarah has caused them and their need to begin healing from this horrible, despicable crime," the Wicomico County state's attorney, Matthew Maciarello, told reporters.

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.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested after he told police he beat his 66-year-old grandmother unconscious with a hammer when he became angry while getting ready for school. The teen was being held at Central Booking, but was not identified by police because he had not been formally charged as of late Thursday. Police said boy called 911 after the assault at about 8:30 a.m., and officers responded to the home in the 800 block of E. 34th St. in the Waverly community, where they found the grandmother unresponsive in her bed, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman.