Man Struck

County police were still trying yesterday to identify a man struck and killed by a car early Monday on Ritchie Highway in Arnold.The 40- to 50-year-old man was walking south along Ritchie Highway near Joyce Lane about 3 a.m. when he was hit by a car driven by Alfred A. Winborne Jr., 20, which went up on the DTC shoulder of the road.Police said the car glanced off a guardrail before hitting the man. Investigators said they do not know why the car left the road. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene.

Baltimore County Police have identified the 39-year-old man killed Tuesday while performing lawn maintenance at North Charles Street and Old Willow Way in Towson. The victim was identified as Noe Rodriguez Alverto, of Middle River. At 10:53 a.m. Tuesday, police and fire units responded to a call for a pedestrian struck. Police said a 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser driven by Malinda Johnson, 41, had been traveling northbound on North Charles Street when it struck Alverto. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A man in his mid-30s was struck and seriously injured by a freight train yesterday as he walked along the tracks, ignoring the train's warning whistle, rescue workers said.The man, whose name was not released last night, was walking on tracks near the 1500 block of Woodstock Road near the Howard-Baltimore line about 6:30 p.m. when a CSX freight train approached, said Battalion Chief Donald R. Howell.Witnesses reported the victim was walking on the center of the tracks facing away from the train, which was traveling about 35 mph to 40 mph when it struck him and threw him off the tracks.

A 28-year-old Landover man who was struck in the head with a beer bottle before hitting his head on the ground during a fight in the city's Curtis Bay neighborhood early Tuesday has died from his injuries, Baltimore Police said Wednesday. Cyrill Montel Holland, of the 7500 block of Greenleaf Road, was allegedly involved in a fight with several other men in the 1600 block of Cypress Street about 1:48 p.m. when he was assaulted, police said. As police approached the scene, an "unidentified female" warned the men in the fight that the police were approaching and two men "picked [Holland]

State police released the identity yesterday of a 26-year-old Prince George's County man whose remains were spread across Interstate 95 after being struck multiple times before dawn Monday, closing northbound lanes for seven hours. Investigators notified the relatives in Mexico of Antonio Orozco Martinez, of the 3400 block of Dodge Park Road in Landover. But they released no other details about Martinez, and it remained unclear how his remains came to rest on the interstate, said Maryland State Police 1st Sgt. Russell Newell.

A Northwest Baltimore man struck by a city firetruck Friday night near Lexington Market was listed in critical condition yesterday at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, authorities said.The victim was identified yesterday as Leon Collins, 43, of the 4100 block of Reisterstown Road.Battalion Chief Hector L. Torres, a fire department spokesman, said Collins was trying to cross the street when he stepped between two firetrucks en route, with sirens and emergency lights on, to the scene of a house fire.

An unidentified man was killed late Monday night as he tried to cross Route 32 in Gambrills, state police said. The man was hit near Burns Crossing Road about 10:30 p.m. by a 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier driven by William Ellison, 21, of the 2000 block of Brigadier Blvd. in Odenton. Ellison was not charged. Police think the victim was a Hispanic man about 30 years old. Before the collision, county police received reports of an intoxicated pedestrian in the area, state police said. Anyone with information is asked to call state police at 410-761-5130.

An Anne Arundel County jury has awarded $1.95 million to a man struck and injured by a cement-mixer truck in April 2005 while working on his disabled vehicle on the shoulder of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. The $1.83 million portion of the judgment awarded for pain and suffering will be capped at $650,000, the legal limit in Maryland at the time of the accident. The accident left Robert L. Howard, the driver of a truck for Goodwill Industries, with a severe injury to his arm and killed his assistant, Errol Johnson, 44. The pair were standing by their disabled vehicle on the northbound side of the parkway near the Baltimore Beltway when they were hit by a cement mixer driven by Richard Anthony Schulman for Lafarge Mid-Atlantic.

An 87-year-old Pennsylvania man retrieving mail from his mailbox only yards north of the Maryland line near Lineboro was struck Monday by a pickup truck and died a short time later, Pennsylvania State Police said.John Kuchtiak of Glen Rock, Pa., was taken by helicopter to a trauma center in York, Pa., where he died soon after the 4: 14 p.m. accident.According to Pennsylvania troopers, a 1986 Chevrolet pickup truck driven by Steven C. McElrath, 55, of Brodbecks, Pa., was traveling west on Glenville Road east of Black Rock Road when the driver said he was blinded by the setting sun.The truck driver braked and swerved when he saw Kuchtiak, but was unable to avoid striking the man, who was standing in the road in front of his mailbox.

Howard County police were still looking yesterday for a man who attempted to rob a Columbia High's Dairy Store Wednesday night, using a large stick he pulled from a flower bed outside the store as a weapon.One of two employees working at the store in the 5400 block of Lynx Lane in Wilde Lake suffered minor injuries when the man struck him several times with the stick, police said. The employee did not require medical treatment.The man entered the store about 9 p.m. carrying the stick and demanding money.

A 49-year-old man is recovering from multiple broken bones and fractures after being struck by a light rail train in North Baltimore on Saturday night, according to a Maryland Transit Administration spokesman. Emergency responders were called to the tracks just south of the Woodberry station about 8:45 p.m. Saturday and found the injured man, who has not been publicly identified, said Terry Owens, administration spokesman. The man had been "walking on or near the tracks" when he was struck by a northbound train, Owens said.

A 28-year-old man was struck in the head with a gun and shot at in Aberdeen on Wednesday night, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to the 200 block of Perrywood Court about 7:20 p.m. after being called by the man, and found him there with a laceration on his head, said Capt. Chris Swain, a sheriff's office spokesman. The man, who was not identified, told police he was walking in the area when three men "came out of nowhere" and one of them "hit him with a gun and knocked him down," Swain said.

Armed robbers grabbed a man's electronic reader in Severn and fired a shot into the ground when he tried to take it back, then struck him with their car as they sped off, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said the man told them around 4 p.m. Sunday that he was reading on his Kindle when two men approached him from behind. One demanded the reader, shoved him to the ground and took the reader, and the second man pointed a gun at him when he tried to take it back, and fired into the ground, police said.

A man was struck and killed on an elevated Metro track near the West Coldspring Lane overpass about 3 p.m. Thursday, suspending train service through the area, according to the Baltimore City Fire Department. The man's body was in "visible sight to the public" before being covered by a sheet by a responding emergency crew, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a department spokesman. Maryland Transit Administration Police were still working to determine how and why the man entered the tracks Thursday night, said Terry Owens, a MTA spokesman.

A 27-year-old Joppa man was killed Saturday after he was hit by a car after a fall from his bicycle landed him in the middle of the street, Baltimore County police said. Jason David Leonard, 27, whom police found lying on Right Wing Drive in Essex at around 3:34 a.m., was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said in a release that an intitial investigation found that Leonard was sitting in the middle of Right Wing Drive after falling from his bicycle, when an Oldsmobile Cutlass traveling north struck him. The Cutlass was driven by 25-year-old Brandon Maurice Cook of Essex, who remained at the scene and was taken to an area hospital.

A 66-year-old Towson man was struck and killed by a vehicle near Penn Station on Thursday morning, city police said. Terrance Walbert, of the 200 block of Dumbarton Road, had stepped off of a city bus in the 1600 block of Maryland Avenue when he began to cross the street, police said. A 1999 Ford Mustang traveling south unsuccessfully swerved to avoid hitting him, and Walbert struck the windshield and was thrown into the roadway.

Baltimore City Northeastern District Shooting: An unidentified man was shot in the 3000 block of Echodale Ave. about 8 p.m. yesterday and was taken by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital. His condition was not known. Two men, one wearing a werewolf Halloween mask, were being sought. Northern District Theft from vehicle: A cellular phone, cash and credit cards were stolen Tuesday from a Chevrolet Blazer parked in the 2400 block of Cylburn Ave. Robbery: An 85-year-old woman was walking in the 4000 block of Seven Mile Lane about 6 p.m. Tuesday when a man struck her in the face and stole her purse containing cash and property - all valued at $45. The woman was treated at Sinai Hospital and released.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Eastern Shooting -- Police responding to a report of a shooting in the 2000 block of N. Washington St. about 11 p.m. Monday found an 18-year-old man sitting on the front steps of a house, bleeding from wounds to his left arm and upper chest. The victim later told police that he and a friend were walking in the 2100 block of N. Wolfe St. when an unknown man shot at them. He was in good condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Baltimore County Police identified the man who died May 1 after being struck by a MARC train near Essex as Robert Ey of Middle River. Ey, 26, was walking south on the tracks when he was accidentally struck by a southbound train moving at about 100 mph, a police investigation found. The accident occurred about 7:15 a.m. near Northeast Creek Road and Schaefer Lane in Rosedale. Police arrived at 7:18 a.m. and searched the area, initially calling in a helicopter for assistance, police said after the accident.

A Pennsylvania state trooper fatally shot a Maryland motorist who attacked the officer during an accident investigation on the Pennsylvania Turnpike Tuesday night. The officer found Daryl Jerome Berry, 45, of Columbia, arguing with another motorist at the scene of a collision that occurred just before 9 p.m. in the eastbound lanes of the highway in Brush Creek Township, Fulton County. Berry approached the officer with two aggressive Rottweiler dogs and then hit the officer repeatedly with a flashlight, police said.