Man Charged

Baltimore County police say a Halethorpe man has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and other offenses in connection with the stabbing of his 14-year-old son Saturday morning. Police say Charles V. Palmer, 50, was in his attic in his home in the 600 block of Washington Ave. about 9:30 a.m. with his son. The two were looking at knives when Palmer stabbed the boy in the neck. Palmer dropped the knife and the boy picked it up and ran outside with it, police said. When police arrived, they said, they found the 14-year-old with a large wound on his neck, and he was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital with injuries that were not expected to be life-threatening.

A Pasadena man was charged with stealing bronze grave markers that vanished from grave sites in Glen Haven Memorial Park in Glen Burnie, according to Anne Arundel County police. Dustin Landon Grogan, 42, of the first block of Wishing Rock Road, is facing a theft charge, police said Tuesday. He was held in lieu of $5,000 bail, according to court records. Police said they recovered four markers from the cemetery, as well as several related metal pieces, at a home in Glen Burnie, and now are trying to find relatives of the people named on the markers.

A 28-year-old man was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in the Dec. 30 fatal shooting of 31-year-old Sir Keith English Queen Jones, according to Anne Arundel County police said. Police said Carroll Leon Johnson, 28, of no fixed address, was arrested around 7 a.m. Tuesday near Oak Manor Drive in Glen Burnie. Court records indicate Johnson was ordered held without bail. Police had been called to the parking lot of Dietrich's Tavern in Glen Burnie around 5:21 p.m. Dec. 30 for a shooting, and found Jones suffering from gunshot wounds.

A 38-year-old Baltimore man has been charged in the murder of a 32-year-old city HIV outreach worker who he said he met on an online dating site, after being taken into custody Saturday driving her vehicle with blood stains on his clothes. Monte Carter told detectives that he had been doing heroin and cocaine for days, driving around the city in Jennifer Conyers' 2004 Ford Mustang and using her ATM card to buy things that could be traded for more drugs, according to charging documents.

A 21-year-old Edgewood man has been arrested and charged in the shooting death of an Edgewood teenager last Thursday night that also left another Edgewood teenager in the hospital. Garfield Smith III, of the 1600 block of Candlewood Court, is charged with first- and second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault and use of a firearm in the death of Michael Wayne Kearins, 17, of the 1900 block of Harewood Road in Edgewood, according to a media release from the Harford County Sheriff's Office.

A 22-year-old Glen Burnie man is in custody for allegedly strangling his 62-year-old great aunt to death Tuesday in the 300 block of Gatewater Court, police said. Brandon Zachary Duncan is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Dianna Lee Fitzwater. Duncan is under a guard's watch at a local hospital for unrelated issues, police said Thursday. Police responded to a call at 11:44 p.m. Tuesday and found Fitzwater's body. A witness at the house reported that she and Duncan woke around 11:30 p.m. and went to the living room, where they found the victim unresponsive.

State fire marshals on Friday arrested a Perryville man accused of setting his apartment on fire, officials said Saturday. Isaac M. Chestnut, 57, is being held at Cecil County Detention Center on three charges of arson and malicious burning. Neighbors called 911 after the fire ignited around 4:30 p.m. in a two-story building in the 600 block of Broad St. in Perryville. The building housed three apartments above businesses, including a pizza shop. The fire caused more than $1,000 in damage, state fire officials said.

Baltimore County police charged a man with attempted first- and second-degree murder this week in the stabbing of two men who allegedly tried to jump him, the department announced on Friday. Dallus Newson, 18, of the 4400 block of Greenwich Court in Abingdon, was arrested Jan. 7 and is being held without bail, police said. Police said Newson fought with Brandon Victorian, 20, and Donte Smith, 19, after getting into a drug-related disagreement on Jan. 3 at about 7:30 p.m. in Perry Hall.

Baltimore police have charged a man in the Christmas Day beating of Kenni Shaw, though it was not announced for several days as the city's gay community remained on edge amid fears of violence. Shaw says he was attacked because he is gay, though police have not suggested a motive in the case. The beating, illustrated by images taken in the hospital of his badly swollen face, helped spur a rally Saturday in East Baltimore that included Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts. Records show Marcus Evans, 26, was picked up two days before the rally on a warrant filed Dec. 29. When asked about the case the day of the rally, police said it remained under investigation.