Intent To Murder

A Severn teen-ager was arrested yesterday and charged with assault with intent to murder after he fired a gunshot at a man in a car, county police said.Gregory Melbourne Weeks, 39, of the 1800 block of Robin Court in Severn told police he was sitting in his car with a friend in the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive in Severn about 3:15 a.m. when a group of men approached.A teen in the group demanded $20, saying Mr. Weeks owed him the money.Mr. Weeks refused to pay and backed his car out. Police said the teen-ager pulled out a 20-gauge sawed-off shotgun and fired a shot into the front of the car.Officers went to an apartment in the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive and found several members of the group.

A brawl in Baltimore County's Turners Station neighborhood left a 19-year-old man with seven stab wounds and another victim, two years younger, with a knife wound to the neck, police said Friday. Two suspects were arrested and a third turned himself in after the incident late Thursday on New Pittsburg Avenue, said Lt. Robert McCullough, a police spokesman. All three were charged with assault to commit murder and first-degree assault. McCullough said the two victims and the three assailants, all of whom knew one another, got into a fight about 10 p.m. The most seriously wounded of the victims was identified as Thomas E. Davis of the 500 block of Main St. in Dundalk, who was in critical condition at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center with multiple stab wounds, some in his back.

The attorney for an HIV-positive Carroll County man who is accused of assault with intent to murder in alleged sexual assaults on two boys was scheduled to argue today that prosecutors improperly obtained evidence in the case.At issue at a pretrial motions hearing in Carroll Circuit Court is whether prosecutors properly obtained evidence during the execution of two search warrants, said defense lawyer Judith S. Stainbrook.The defendant is charged with the rape -- and, because he has the AIDS virus, assault with intent to murder -- of his two stepgrandsons.

Howard County police charged four men with assault with intent to murder Monday after detectives saw a man point a gun at another man's head during a possible drug transaction in Columbia.Paul Tony Ashby, 33, of Washington was being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center after a bond review hearing yesterday. Charges against Ashby include using a handgun in the commission of a felony, robbery and battery, police said.Three other men were charged with assault with intent to murder and robbery and were being jailed at the detention center.

The state's second-highest court vacated the attempted second-degree murder conviction of a Taneytown carpenter serving 20 years in prison for trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun.The Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion released yesterday, left intact the conviction for assault with intent to murder against William Richard Bollinger. The decision leaves Bollinger's sentence unchanged because he was serving simultaneous 20-year sentences, one for each crime.

The state's second-highest court vacated the attempted second-degree murder conviction of a Taneytown carpenter serving 20 years in prison for trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun.The Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion released yesterday, left intact the conviction for assault with intent to murder against William Richard Bollinger. The decision leaves Bollinger's sentence unchanged because he was serving simultaneous 20-year sentences, one for each crime.

Annapolis tavern keeper Francis "Bones" Denvir was signing paychecks in his upstairs office when a liquor bottle came crashing against his head. Hit more than 25 times, much of his head had to be rebuilt."

An HIV-positive Carroll County man, charged with assault with intent to murder in the alleged sexual assault of two boys, will remain in jail until his trial or until he can post $30,000 cash for bail, a Carroll judge ruled yesterday.Circuit Judge Francis M. Arnold declined to change the man's $300,000 bail, saying it was not unconstitutional as the defense had claimed.The defendant must post 10 percent of the $300,000 bond to be freed pending trial.Yesterday was the third time the defendant has requested a bail reduction since he was arrested by Carroll investigators nearly six months ago.He is charged in the rape and assault with intent to murder of his two stepgrandsons.

Allowing testimony about a Carroll County man's HIV-positive status during his child sex abuse trial could prejudice jurors against him, defense attorneys argued during a motions hearing yesterday in Circuit Court.In addition, lengthy medical testimony about the human immunodeficiency virus and how it causes AIDS could detract from telling what happened to a 3-year-old county boy, county public defender Barbara Kreinar told Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. yesterday."If we leave that in, it is not a trial focusing on [the boy's]

An Army officer who shot three people at a Glenelg party in May was convicted Monday of second-degree murder by a Howard County jury, despite his attorney's insistence that someone else fired the fatal bullet.Army clerk Jeffrey Louis Fowlkes, who told jurors he was only attempting to maintain the peace when he fired his gun during a fight at the party, also was convicted of two counts of assault with intent to murder and handgun violations. He faces a maximum of 105 years in prison.In closing arguments, defense attorney Richard Winelander had urged the jury "not to guess" about Fowlkes' guilt and apologized that he had been unable to uncover an unknown man he claims is responsible for the killing.

A Severn teen-ager was arrested yesterday and charged with assault with intent to murder after he fired a gunshot at a man in a car, county police said.Gregory Melbourne Weeks, 39, of the 1800 block of Robin Court in Severn told police he was sitting in his car with a friend in the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive in Severn about 3:15 a.m. when a group of men approached.A teen in the group demanded $20, saying Mr. Weeks owed him the money.Mr. Weeks refused to pay and backed his car out. Police said the teen-ager pulled out a 20-gauge sawed-off shotgun and fired a shot into the front of the car.Officers went to an apartment in the 8500 block of Pioneer Drive and found several members of the group.

Carroll County jurors are expected to continue deliberations today in the case of a 47-year-old Upperco man accused of sexually abusing his wife's grandson about a year ago.County Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. sent the jury of six men and six women home about 7:30 last night. The panel is expected to reconvene this morning at 9 a.m.The man -- who is not being named to protect the child's privacy -- was charged in November 1994 with rape and child sexual abuse. He was also charged with assault with intent to murder because he has HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Allowing testimony about a Carroll County man's HIV-positive status during his child sex abuse trial could prejudice jurors against him, defense attorneys argued during a motions hearing yesterday in Circuit Court.In addition, lengthy medical testimony about the human immunodeficiency virus and how it causes AIDS could detract from telling what happened to a 3-year-old county boy, county public defender Barbara Kreinar told Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. yesterday."If we leave that in, it is not a trial focusing on [the boy's]

The state's second-highest court vacated the attempted second-degree murder conviction of a Taneytown carpenter serving 20 years in prison for trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun.The Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion released yesterday, left intact the conviction for assault with intent to murder against William Richard Bollinger. The decision leaves Bollinger's sentence unchanged because he was serving simultaneous 20-year sentences, one for each crime.

The state's second-highest court vacated the attempted second-degree murder conviction of a Taneytown carpenter serving 20 years in prison for trying to kill his former girlfriend when he sneaked into her house with a loaded gun.The Court of Special Appeals, in an opinion released yesterday, left intact the conviction for assault with intent to murder against William Richard Bollinger. The decision leaves Bollinger's sentence unchanged because he was serving simultaneous 20-year sentences, one for each crime.

An HIV-positive Carroll County man, charged with assault with intent to murder in the alleged sexual assault of two boys, will remain in jail until his trial or until he can post $30,000 cash for bail, a Carroll judge ruled yesterday.Circuit Judge Francis M. Arnold declined to change the man's $300,000 bail, saying it was not unconstitutional as the defense had claimed.The defendant must post 10 percent of the $300,000 bond to be freed pending trial.Yesterday was the third time the defendant has requested a bail reduction since he was arrested by Carroll investigators nearly six months ago.He is charged in the rape and assault with intent to murder of his two stepgrandsons.

Some students at Hampstead Hill Middle School say their school is getting a bum rap.They say the school, in the 100 block of S. Ellwood Ave., isn't a haven for violent troublemakers."

The defense attorney for an HIV-positive Carroll County man, who is accused of assault with intent to murder in alleged sexual assaults of two boys, was scheduled to argue today that prosecutors improperly obtained evidence in the case.At main issue, at a pretrial motions hearing in Carroll Circuit Court, is whether prosecutors properly obtained evidence during the execution of two search warrants, said defense lawyer Judith S. Stainbrook.The defendant is charged with the rape -- and, because he has the AIDS virus, assault with intent to murder -- of his two stepgrandsons.