Identified By Police

A Baltimore police officer shot and wounded a 16-year-old boy in the Bolton Hill neighborhood yesterday morning after a fight in which the teen-ager cut the officer's eye with a knife, police said. The incident began about 5:25 a.m. when Officer Christian Schaeffer responded to a call in the 200 block of W. Lafayette Ave. about a suspicious person. The neighborhood has been troubled recently by vandals who have slashed tires and broken windows on houses and vehicles, police said. As he spoke to neighbors, Schaeffer spotted somebody walking out of an alley and approached him. It was a 16-year- old boy. The officer and the boy got into a scuffle, police said, and the teen pulled out a knife and cut one of the officer's eyes.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Southern Homicide arrests -- Gary Froneberger, 22, of the 4700 block of Williston St. and John Linton, 24, of the 2500 block of Culver St. were arrested Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Abdul Rahim Azzie, 20, of the 4600 block of Parkton St., whose body has not been found. Police declined to disclose the nature of the evidence linking the two men with Azzie's death.

Three men were shot to death in apparently unrelated incidents over the past two days in different parts of Baltimore, and police yesterday identified the victim of an earlier homicide. The killings pushed the city's homicide total this year to 56, compared with 51 for the same period last year. The latest killing occurred about 11 a.m. yesterday, police said, when two men were arguing in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave. in East Baltimore and a third man stepped in and shot one of them.

Two shooting victims identified; police suspect gang dispute Two of the three men who were killed in two separate shootings Sunday were identified by police yesterday, and there were indications that their deaths might have been gang-related. In the earlier shooting, which occurred about 2 a.m. in the city's Barclay neighborhood, police arrived at the scene to find two men hit by gunfire. The men were identified as Adrian Holiday, 19, of the 1700 block of Normal Ave. in Northeast Baltimore and Anthony Taylor Jr., 20, of the 1000 block of Reverdy Ave. in North Baltimore.

Annapolis police are investigating whether an incident Sunday in which a Calvert County husband and wife were injured by a crowd that threw bottles and rocks at their car in Eastport was drug-related. After the attack on Madison Street near the Harbor House public housing neighborhood, the victims - identified by police as Gregory Louis Mercillott and Juanita Jean Mercillott - drove to the Bay Ridge Avenue fire station to seek help for head injuries, saying they had been shot, police said.

Because a suspect being questioned in connection with a murder falsely identified himself to Baltimore police, an article in yesterday's editions of The Sun incorrectly reported the name of the suspect, who had sought treatment for gunshot wounds at Union Memorial Hospital Sunday evening and was being held under guard.The police yesterday identified the suspect as Anthony Russell Jones, 21, of the 1400 block of Holbrook Street. The police said that as far as they know, Billy Wiggins, the man whose name was first given by the suspect, had nothing to do with the crime under investigation.

12-year-old run over by busA 12-year-old Pasadena boy was run over by the rear tire of a school bus yesterday when he knelt down to pick up books that had fallen from his bag in front of Chesapeake Middle School.Melvin Pfannenstein of the 7900 block Blue Anchor Court was listed in serious condition yesterday at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.County police said he had gotten off the bus in front of the school in the 4000 block of Mountain Road at 8:05 a.m., when books fell from his backpack.

Baltimore's 1992 homicide toll climbed to 22, four above this date a year ago, as two men were shot to death early today. Meanwhile, police charged a 14-year-old boy as an adult for an earlier homicide.Neither of today's victims, who were shot in seperate incidents, had been identified by police. There have been no arrests in either case.Today's first murder victim was a man died shortly after 1 a.m. after he was shot twice at an intersection in East Baltimore.Eastern District police answered a call about 12:30 a.m. and found the man lying at Luzerne Avenue and Hoffman Street, bleeding from gunshot wounds to the left wrist and left side.

A man was fatally shot in East Baltimore last night - hours after another man was stabbed to the death in the same section of the city, police said. About 7:30 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified man was shot in the 400 block of N. Bouldin St., police said. Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman, said police found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the head and lying in the street. Monroe said the man was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. No arrest had been made and a motive was unknown, she said.