Homicide

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.

City police are investigating a homicide in the Evergreen Lawn neighborhood Wednesday night. Officers found a 45-year-old man on the front steps of a home in the 2500 block of Harlem Ave. at about 10:45 p.m. He was taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died at 11:17 p.m. Police have also identified the victim of a shooting Tuesday in the Forest Park area. Floyd Albert Dorsey Jr. of the 4100 block of Norfolk Ave. died of several gunshot wounds at Sinai Hospital shortly before 11 p.m. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

Harford County police said Sunday that a woman found dead at her home in Street over the weekend had been killed. Paramedics were called to the 1500 block of Clearview Drive about 9:20 p.m. Saturday for a possible cardiac arrest, but they contacted police as soon as they saw the woman, 52-year-old Deborah Elaine Burgess. "What they found was not indicative of cardiac arrest," said Monica Worrell, a spokeswoman for the Harford County Sheriff's Office. "There was trauma to the body.

Police have identified the man found fatally shot in a vehicle in Northwest Baltimore on Sunday as 40-year-old Sean Carlos Johnson. Johnson, of the 3200 block of Kenyon Ave., was found at about 11:10 a.m. in a vehicle with its engine running in the 3700 block of Lewiston Ave. in the Arlington neighborhood, police said. His legs were hanging out of the driver's side door and he was suffering from gunshot wounds to his torso, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

A man found shot Monday night in an East Baltimore alley died shortly afterward at an area hospital, becoming the city's 11th homicide this year, according to police. Michael Manning, 35, of the 4800 block of York Road was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. No arrest had been made. Eastern District police responding to shots about 9:30 p.m. in the 1900 block of Aisquith St. in the Oliver community found Manning lying unconscious in the alley.

A 10-month-old child who died after being rushed to the hospital in September suffered a brain hemorrhage and is believed to have been shaken to death, police said. An autopsy on Dec. 17 confirmed homicide as a cause of death for Micha Crane, who lived in the 3500 block of Chesterfield Ave. and was found in the 1900 block of W. North Ave. on Sept. 8. Police say they have not made any arrests in the death and could not provide any additional information. Micha is the 11th child to die in Baltimore this year, and the fourth aged 2 or younger.

Pamela Prowant was shot multiple times in her apartment in Laurel in 1985, lived with paralysis and used a wheelchair for another 27 years, and died in January of what appeared to be natural causes. In April, the office of the chief medical examiner ruled her death a homicide, essentially declaring that the injuries she sustained almost three decades ago caused her death this year while Prowant, in her early 50s, was still relatively young. Prowant's death is the 28th homicide of 2012 in Prince George's, a negative mark on the county's crime books that won't - and legally can't - be erased with a murder conviction.

Homicide detectives are investigating a shooting in West Baltimore that occurred about 7 p.m. Monday, potentially the first fatal shooting in more than a week in the city. The victim, a man who has not yet been identified, was shot in the jaw and leg and was in critical condition, city police said. The shooting was in the 1100 block of N. Stricker Street in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. There have been no fatal shootings in the city since Feb. 3, when two people were killed.

Anne Arundel County police have arrested a 17-year-old Baltimore man and charged him as an adult in an Aug. 13 Brooklyn Park killing. Police said that Marcus Allen McFadden of the 2400 block of Marbourne Ave. and two other teens approached Eric Javonn Hill's Honda Civic and attempted to rob him at gunpoint in the 100 block of West Edgevale Road in early August. Police believe McFadden to be the gunman; the two other teens have been identified but have not been charged. When McFadden pulled out a handgun and demanded money from Hill and his passenger, police said Hill appears to have stomped on the accelerator, and he was shot in the upper torso.

The death of Phylicia Barnes, the missing teenager whose body was found last month in the Susquehanna River, has been formally ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner's office, officials said. Police also said a cause of death had been determined, but they were withholding the information for investigative purposes. "To release a cause of death at this time could jeopardize the investigation by revealing information known only to the person or persons responsible for her death," state police said in a statement.