Langley Park

LANGLEY PARK -- A 34-year-old man was shot to death early yesterday in Langley Park, said Prince George's County police.The victim's name was withheld pending notification of his family.Neighbors called police to report shots fired about 1 a.m.Officers found the man lying on the ground in the 1400 block of Kanawha St. with a shotgun wound in his chest.He was dead on arrival at Washington Hospital Center.

Police identified yesterday the victims in a head-on crash between two pickup trucks that killed two people and sent five to the hospital Thursday evening as they continued their investigation. Hector Vasquez, 42, of Laurel and Maximiliano Vasquez, 46, of Langley Park were killed when they were thrown from the bed of one of the trucks. Rene Linares Ramos, 27, of Bowie and Ludi Linares Rodriguez, 24, were released yesterday from Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Raul Ortiz, 20, of Langley Park was listed in serious but stable condition, and Juan Ramirez, 35, was in critical condition.

The Howard County Youth Program's 13-year-old travel basketball team won two recent tournaments.The Hoopsters won the Greater Odenton Classic in the 14-under A division, and the Langley Park, suburban Maryland/D.C. 13-year-old division title.In the Greater Odenton title game, the Hoopsters defeated the Madison Buccaneers from Baltimore, 43-42, to capture their fourth consecutive age-bracket title in the tournament.Scott Bross led HCYP at point guard, passing to Fardan Carter, Brian Calabrese and Danny Chapman.

Two people were killed and five others critically injured when two pickup trucks collided head-on and one burst into flames in a horrific accident on a rural stretch of Route 32 in Glenelg yesterday evening, Howard County police said. Four of the victims had been riding in the back of one vehicle and were hurled out by the impact, including the two pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The dead were identified today as Hector Vasquez, 42, of the 300 block of Old Line Ave. in Laurel and Maximiliano Vasquez, 46, of Langley Park.

LANGLEY PARK -- A religiously and racially charged dispute on one of Maryland's most gang-ridden streets is triggering a turf war of David-and-Goliath proportions. Pitted against each other are the small and financially struggling Langley Park Boys and Girls Club and the Archdiocese of Washington. The Boys and Girls Club, which has a predominantly black membership, occupies 3 acres at the center of the dispute in a Hispanic neighborhood in Prince George's County that is notorious for Mara Salvatrucha, a violent Central American youth gang known as MS-13.

Langley Park man, 28 faces harassment chargesA 28-year-old Langley Park man has been charged with harassing five women and two teen-age girls at Sandy Point State Park this weekend by swimming between their legs and "grabbing their legs, thighs and buttocks," Department of Natural Resources Police said.The women and teen-agers complained Sunday to two park rangers that a man had been harassing them.The DNR police said German A. Nieto was charged with harassment, disturbing the peace and five counts of fourth-degree sexual contact.

Prince George's county police were attempting yesterday to learn the identity of a young Hispanic man who was apparently stabbed to death on a sidewalk in Langley Park.The victim, believed to be between 18 and 20 years of age, was found lying on the sidewalk in the 8300 block of Navahoe Drive in Langley Park and was pronounced dead at the scene, county police said.The man, who had no identification, was wearing a white T-shirt with green trim, light-blue jeans, black socks and tan, slip-on shoes, police said.

An unidentified gunman, who took a woman hostage after the fatal shooting of another woman, was killed by a police sharpshooter yesterday as he sat next to the hostage in a parked car in a Langley Park cul-de-sac.Montgomery County police said their pursuit of the man began after authorities discovered that an unidentified 28-year-old woman had been shot to death in her Silver Spring apartment, and a man, Mark Killian, of Woodbridge, Va., had been cut with a knife on his throat and neck in a dispute with the suspect.

Police identified yesterday the victims in a head-on crash between two pickup trucks that killed two people and sent five to the hospital Thursday evening as they continued their investigation. Hector Vasquez, 42, of Laurel and Maximiliano Vasquez, 46, of Langley Park were killed when they were thrown from the bed of one of the trucks. Rene Linares Ramos, 27, of Bowie and Ludi Linares Rodriguez, 24, were released yesterday from Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Raul Ortiz, 20, of Langley Park was listed in serious but stable condition, and Juan Ramirez, 35, was in critical condition.

Two people were killed and five others critically injured when two pickup trucks collided head-on and one burst into flames in a horrific accident on a rural stretch of Route 32 in Glenelg yesterday evening, Howard County police said. Four of the victims had been riding in the back of one vehicle and were hurled out by the impact, including the two pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The dead were identified today as Hector Vasquez, 42, of the 300 block of Old Line Ave. in Laurel and Maximiliano Vasquez, 46, of Langley Park.

LANGLEY PARK -- A religiously and racially charged dispute on one of Maryland's most gang-ridden streets is triggering a turf war of David-and-Goliath proportions. Pitted against each other are the small and financially struggling Langley Park Boys and Girls Club and the Archdiocese of Washington. The Boys and Girls Club, which has a predominantly black membership, occupies 3 acres at the center of the dispute in a Hispanic neighborhood in Prince George's County that is notorious for Mara Salvatrucha, a violent Central American youth gang known as MS-13.

In Anne Arundel Authorities say victim in crash had been shot CROFTON - A Crofton man who crashed his car into a tree early yesterday had been fatally shot, authorities said. Aaron Kirk Howard, 33, of the 1800 block of Aberdeen Circle was pronounced dead at the scene after he was discovered in the driver's seat of an Oldsmobile in the 600 block of Admiral Drive, said county police. Witnesses told police that they saw two men run from the car after it crossed the center line and hit a tree on the opposite side of the road shortly before 2:30 a.m. Investigators were trying yesterday to determine a motive and the circumstances leading to Howard's death.

LANGLEY PARK - Shivering on a curb outside the Toys R Us, where they've waited for hours in hopes of getting hired onto a construction crew, three Guatemalan carpenters are startled instead to see a police cruiser pull up beside them. They quickly stand and exchange worried looks. But when Prince George's County police Officer R. Jeff Lanuza climbs out and starts talking in Spanish, it's not to order the men to leave. Protect yourselves, he tells them. Don't carry around your savings.

LANGLEY PARK -- The family of a Salvadoran immigrant who was beaten and kicked to death in September expressed outrage yesterday at a decision this week by the Prince George's County state's attorney to drop murder and assault charges against four of seven Laurel teen-agers charged in the killing."

LANGLEY PARK -- The family of a Salvadoran immigrant who was beaten and kicked to death in September expressed outrage yesterday at a decision this week by the Prince George's County state's attorney to drop murder and assault charges against four of seven Laurel teen-agers charged in the killing."

LANGLEY PARK -- A 34-year-old man was shot to death early yesterday in Langley Park, said Prince George's County police.The victim's name was withheld pending notification of his family.Neighbors called police to report shots fired about 1 a.m.Officers found the man lying on the ground in the 1400 block of Kanawha St. with a shotgun wound in his chest.He was dead on arrival at Washington Hospital Center.

LANGLEY PARK - Shivering on a curb outside the Toys R Us, where they've waited for hours in hopes of getting hired onto a construction crew, three Guatemalan carpenters are startled instead to see a police cruiser pull up beside them. They quickly stand and exchange worried looks. But when Prince George's County police Officer R. Jeff Lanuza climbs out and starts talking in Spanish, it's not to order the men to leave. Protect yourselves, he tells them. Don't carry around your savings.

In Anne Arundel Authorities say victim in crash had been shot CROFTON - A Crofton man who crashed his car into a tree early yesterday had been fatally shot, authorities said. Aaron Kirk Howard, 33, of the 1800 block of Aberdeen Circle was pronounced dead at the scene after he was discovered in the driver's seat of an Oldsmobile in the 600 block of Admiral Drive, said county police. Witnesses told police that they saw two men run from the car after it crossed the center line and hit a tree on the opposite side of the road shortly before 2:30 a.m. Investigators were trying yesterday to determine a motive and the circumstances leading to Howard's death.

An unidentified gunman, who took a woman hostage after the fatal shooting of another woman, was killed by a police sharpshooter yesterday as he sat next to the hostage in a parked car in a Langley Park cul-de-sac.Montgomery County police said their pursuit of the man began after authorities discovered that an unidentified 28-year-old woman had been shot to death in her Silver Spring apartment, and a man, Mark Killian, of Woodbridge, Va., had been cut with a knife on his throat and neck in a dispute with the suspect.

Langley Park man, 28 faces harassment chargesA 28-year-old Langley Park man has been charged with harassing five women and two teen-age girls at Sandy Point State Park this weekend by swimming between their legs and "grabbing their legs, thighs and buttocks," Department of Natural Resources Police said.The women and teen-agers complained Sunday to two park rangers that a man had been harassing them.The DNR police said German A. Nieto was charged with harassment, disturbing the peace and five counts of fourth-degree sexual contact.