Homicide

Baltimore city homicide detectives were investigating the death of a woman whose body was found shortly before noon Sunday at 200 N. Belnord Ave., about two blocks north of Patterson Park and a block from the William Paca Elementary School. City police are also trying to determine who shot a man near Greenmount Cemetery Saturday afternoon. They reported the man was shot in the chest at the 400 block of Pitman Place. No other details were immediately available about either incident.

Baltimore police pulled over a 22-year-old man for driving the wrong way on a street early Saturday when the victim opened up the door and fell out of vehicle, telling police he had been shot. Lanell Ausby was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police spokesman Sgt. Anthony Smith said. He was one of two homicide victims in the city overnight. Ausby was shot multiple times in the torso around 1:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of Edgecombe Circle in Parklane, Smith said.

Baltimore Police are investigating a fatal Monday morning shooting in West Baltimore. The incident occurred in the 500 block of Mosher Street at 2:35 a.m., according to police. No further information about the victim were available, police said. The shooting follows a weekend in which a woman was found fatally shot early Sunday morning — also in West Baltimore, on the 2300 block of Braddish Ave. — and police reported two nonfatal shootings Friday night and Saturday morning in East and Southwest Baltimore.

A man was fatally shot a few blocks from the campus of Loyola University Maryland in Northern Baltimore on Thursday evening, police said. Police responded to the 4600 block of York Road, in the Guilford neighborhood, shortly after 6:30 p.m. The location is also close to the Guilford Elementary/Middle School. Homicide detectives were investigating. No other details were immediately available. krector@baltsun.com twitter.com/rectorsun

City police have made an arrest in the shooting death of a 46-year-old man last month that occurred in Southwest Baltimore, where the department has deployed extra officers to quell recent violence in the district. Keith Holly Jr., also known as "Lil' Ham," 21, was arrested Wednesday in the murder of James Ingram, 46, on Oct. 9. He faces a second-degree murder charge, two assault charges and two weapons counts. The shooting was one of seven shootings that weekend that left five men dead and three injured.

Police now consider the death of a man found in South Baltimore a homicide, after initially labeling it a suspicious death, Baltimore police said Sunday. The man's body was discovered at about 6:30 p.m. Friday in an alley in the 700 block of W. Patapsco Avenue in South Baltimore, police said. No further details were immediately available, said Detective Kevin Brown, a spokesman for the Baltimore City Police Department.

Police made two arrests Monday, one in a homicide almost three years old, and another for a triple shooting this month. Police arrested and charged Vincent Clark, 24, of the 4100 block of Norfolk Ave. with first-degree murder in the December 2007 killing of Richard Lawson, 27, in the 2900 block of Chelsea Terrace in the Windsor Hills neighborhood. Darrell Burrus, 23, of the 2200 block of Round Road was arrested and charged yesterday with attempted murder in a Sept. 6 triple shooting in the 900 block of North Payson St. Police issued a warrant for Burrus' arrest Sept.

An argument between two men in the New Southwest/Mount Clare neighborhood last night ended in one of them being struck in the face and later dying, and police are investigating the incident as a suspected homicide this morning. Around 6:45 p.m., officers responded to a reported assault on the 400 block of South Vincent Street. Upon arriving, they found a 46-year-old man lying on the sidewalk. According to police, the man got into an argument with another man and was struck in the face.

The death of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found earlier this month in a Montgomery County state park is now being investigated as a homicide, Montgomery County police said Monday. An autopsy showed that Tannessa Victoria Taylor died from trauma to the body, police said. Taylor, whose address is not known, was last seen alive Dec. 31. State and county police responding to a report of human remains in Patuxent River State Park in Damascus on March 6 found Taylor's partially decomposed body in a shallow gave in a wooded area near the end of Brown Church Road.

Anne Arundel County police said they are investigating a suspected homicide in the western part of the county. The body of a man believed to be 22 years old was found early Monday morning near Route 198 and Red Clay Road, police said. Further information was unavailable.

One person was killed and five others were injured in two separate triple shootings in Baltimore on Thursday night, according to police. Another man was fatally shot in North Baltimore near the campus of Loyola University Maryland. In the first triple shooting, which police believe was targeted, two men and one woman were shot in the 2500 block of W. Fayette St. in Southwest Baltimore while sitting on the front steps of one victim's home about 6 p.m., said Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman.

A man was fatally shot in the Waverly neighborhood shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to police. Police responded to the 3300 block of Westerwald Ave., just off 33rd Street near the former site of Memorial Stadium, about 8:54 p.m. The location is less than two blocks from Waverly Elementary/Middle School. Homicide detectives were still investigating the shooting late Wednesday night, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. Further details were not immediately available.

Three separate violent acts left two men injured and one dead between Monday night and Tuesday morning in Baltimore, police said. The killing occurred in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore, at about 12:15 a.m. Police were called for a report of an unresponsive person in a home in the 600 block of N. Carey St., and found a 58-year-old man in a makeshift closet in a room where hypodermic needles and plastic bags were strewn around the...

During a stroll Thursday night from Little Italy to Harborplace, I bought jelly beans in The Best of Luck candy store, listened to a sidewalk trumpeter play the blues, noted several dead lights that left unappealing darkness along Pratt Street, and watched a Baltimore police officer train his flashlight into cars approaching the stop at Pratt and South, apparently looking for anyone not wearing a seat belt. He was the first cop I saw, and I guess his duty was in the cause of public safety, but I'd much rather have seen the man on foot patrol, strolling the sidewalks and Inner Harbor promenade with the rest of us. His presence certainly would have been appreciated 30 minutes later, when a squadron of eight skinny boys on bicycles decided to pop wheelies and fly along the brick walkway between the World Trade Center and the National Aquarium, oblivious (or maybe not)

Baltimore police on Wednesday identified a homicide victim from earlier in the week, the city's 74th victim of the year. Travis Miller, 27, of the 4800 block of Lorelly Ave. was shot and killed in East Baltimore Monday night. At 11:26 p.m., police responded to the 1100 block of N. Milton Ave. in the Biddle Street neighborhood. When officers arrived, they found the victim lying in the intersection of North Milton Avenue and E. Chase Street, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Baltimore police are investigating four homicides and a nonfatal shooting that occurred Sunday during a violent weekend that also left a 36-year-old woman in critical condition after her car was shot at as she sat at a stoplight. Police said they believe at least two of the incidents are connected and that they have "persons of interest" in at least three of the cases. "There's no question it was a violent weekend," said spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. "We're looking at the motives and connections, but we have to pause and look at the greater picture.

Baltimore City police are investigating the shooting death of a man that occurred Wednesday evening. Police said that around 6:45 p.m., a 29-year-old man was shot multiple times in the torso in the 500 block of Chateau Avenue. The man, whose identity was not released by police, was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later, according to a police spokesman. Homicide detectives are investigating. No further information was available Wednesday night.

Baltimore city police found the body of an unidentified man Sunday afternoon in the Central Park Heights neighborhood and are investigating the death as a homicide. Officers were called to the 3000 block Oakley Avenue shortly after 3 p.m. The victim, who was discovered inside a vacant home, had sustained a gunshot wound to the head, police said. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Three men were shot in separate shootings Tuesday night in Baltimore, according to police. The first, who appeared to have shot himself, died, police said. The conditions of the other two men were not immediately available, police said. Shortly before 7:30 p.m., officers responded to a home in the 900 block of Iris Avenue in the East Baltimore neighborhood of Orangeville to find a man dead from a gunshot wound to the head, according to Sgt. Valencia Nock, a police spokeswoman.