Metro Crime Stoppers

The death of a man whose badly decomposed body was found Thursday evening in Rosedale is being investigated as a homicide, police said yesterday. Patrick Carroll Pearce III, 41, was killed by a gunshot wound to his upper body, an autopsy found yesterday. Police did not have any suspects and knew of no motive in the death. Pearce's body was found at 7 p.m. Thursday in the 600 block of Todds Lane, police said. Officers were called there after a person walking in the area began going through some trash along a driveway and found the body.

Man sought in sex assault of teen Police asked yesterday for the public's help in identifying a man wanted in the sexual assault of a 13-year-old girl yesterday morning in the Bowleys Quarters area of Baltimore County. The attack took place about 7:45 a.m. as the girl walked to her bus stop on Clarks Point Road near Bowleys Quarters Road, according to county police. A man grabbed the girl at knifepoint and demanded money. When the girl said she had none, the man dragged her into a wooded area off Clarks Point Road and sexually assaulted her, police said.

Police are seeking man in two bank robberies County police are seeking the public's assistance in finding a man suspected in two bank robberies. Police have obtained an arrest warrant for Thomas Charles Ahalt Jr., 32, of no fixed address. Ahalt is suspected in the July 19 robbery of the First Horizon Bank in the first block of Painters Mill Road in Owings Mills. A man entered the bank just before 6 p.m., walked up to a teller, implied he had a handgun and demanded money, police said.

Police are seeking a Dundalk man in connection with the death of a man whose badly decomposed body was found last week in Rosedale. Baltimore County police have obtained an arrest warrant for Kenneth James Beauchamp, 57, in the shooting of Patrick Carroll Pearce III, 41, of Rosedale. A passer-by discovered Pearce's body about 7 p.m. Thursday night under piles of trash in the 600 block of Todds Lane in Rosedale. An autopsy determined he died of a gunshot wound to the upper body. Beauchamp was last known to live in the 1900 block of Dundalk Ave. in Dundalk.

In Baltimore CountyPolice seek man charged in Essex triple shootingTOWSON -- County police are seeking help to locate Kleatus R. McManus, wanted on an arrest warrant in a triple shooting Oct. 27 in Essex. He is charged with three counts of attempted murder, assault, using a handgun during a violent crime and illegally possessing a firearm.McManus is accused of shooting three people near Dartford and Back River Neck roads. McManus is described as a thin black male, 5-foot-9, with short black hair.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore city and county.Eastern DistrictStolen car: A 1988 Ford van was stolen from the 200 block of Mount Royal Ave. about 10: 30 a.m. Friday.Breaking and entering: Someone entered an apartment through an open front door in the 1000 block of N. Gay St. about 3 p.m. Saturday and took $30 in cash that was on top of a bedroom dresser. The resident of the apartment said she had left her door open while she was doing her laundry.Theft from auto: Someone broke the left rear window of a car parked in the 2100 block of E. Madison Ave. about 1 p.m. Saturday and took videotapes worth about $40.Northeastern DistrictStolen car: A black 1995 Ford Mustang GT was stolen from the 3900 block of Brendan Ave. between 10 p.m. Saturday and 12: 30 a.m. yesterday.

Baltimore County police are asking for help finding a man they believe was involved in the slaying of a 37-year-old Dundalk woman last week.Barbara Stenzel of the 2600 block of Yorkway, the mother of two daughters, was found strangled about 1: 45 p.m. May 26, police said. Homicide detectives said a man was seen going into her apartment between 9: 30 a.m. and 11: 30 a.m. that day.Witnesses described the man as white and in his late 20s to mid-30s. He is about 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, with a slim build and broad shoulders.

A pizza deliverer was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday outside an Oakland Mills village apartment building, Howard County police said.The Pizza Boli's employee was making a delivery at 8: 10 p.m. when he was accosted by two men in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road, according to a police report.One of the men produced a semiautomatic handgun and robbed the delivery man of an unknown amount of cash, checks and the pizza before fleeing, police said.Police said the robbers were described as black males wearing black clothing and black ski masks.

Police were seeking a motive and suspect in the slaying yesterday of a 15-year-old boy, who was shot on a crowded East Baltimore street.The boy, whose name was withheld pending notification of family, was in the 1700 block of N. Broadway about 3: 15 p.m. when he was shot several times with a handgun, said Detective Don Gordon of the homicide unit.Gordon said the mortally wounded youth stumbled into a nearby house and collapsed on the living room floor. Gordon said the youth was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died at 4: 27 p.m.Woman is fatally shot near home; man soughtA woman was fatally shot yesterday afternoon about a block from her West Baltimore home, and police were seeking a man with whom she was talking shortly before the shooting.

An employee at the High's store in Glenwood was injured over the weekend when three men assaulted him while attempting to rob the store, Howard County police said.Police said the 47-year-old employee of the High's store, in the 2400 block of U.S. 97, was assaulted from behind as he arrived to open the business at 5: 45 a.m. Saturday.As the man was unlocking the door, three men accosted and kicked him several times before entering the store, according to a police report.Police said the men -- unable to deactivate the store's alarm system -- robbed the employee of $10 before running away.

Grayson Edward Kenney Jr. was a former Marine who had fallen on hard times. He lived in an old shed, liked a nip of vodka and, when he could, bathed at a relative's house. For cash, he did odd jobs around his Gwynn Oak neighborhood and, people there told police, otherwise kept pretty much to himself. So it was a mystery when Kenney, 46, was found face-down in a neighbor's driveway early Monday, dead of multiple gunshot wounds. A resident of the 3500 block of Tulsa Road in western Baltimore County discovered him about 7:30 a.m. "He was totally harmless," said Bill Toohey, a spokesman for the Baltimore County police.

Randallstown man, 55, found fatally stabbed inside home A 55-year-old Randallstown man was found stabbed to death in his home Wednesday afternoon, according to Baltimore County police. Another resident of the house in the 9500 block of Liberty Road discovered Rodney Lewis' body in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, police said. Homicide detectives have yet to determine a motive, but police said Lewis' 1998 silver Lincoln Navigator was stolen. Baltimore police found the sport utility vehicle Thursday morning in the city, according to county police.

City police respond to 9 shootings, 2 of them fatal Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III huddled with commanders on Saturday to plot a strategy in response to at least nine shootings in a 24-hour period. Two of the shootings were deadly, police said. Detectives are trying to determine if any are linked, city police spokesman Anthony J. Guglielmi said. A man was shot in the leg in the 4800 block of Yellowwood Ave. on Friday afternoon. Shortly after, a man was shot and killed in the 600 block of Ashburton St. Police did not immediately provide information on the victim.

Reward offered for killers of liquor store owner The two men responsible for the killing of a liquor store owner last month remain unidentified and at large, Baltimore County police officials said Thursday. Police announced a $4,000 reward to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of Joon Am Kang's killers. Half the money would come from Metro Crime Stoppers and half from the Korean-American Grocers and Licensed Beverage Association of Maryland. Kang, 57, was shot in the chest July 16 during an attempted robbery at Putty Hill Liquor on Belair Road in Fullerton.

Balto. Co. police seeking convicted child rapist Baltimore County police said Tuesday they continue to seek information on the whereabouts of a man convicted in October of sexual child abuse and second-degree rape of a juvenile. Police have issued a warrant for Charles A. Kingery, 61, formerly of the Parkville area. Kingery did not appear for his sentencing hearing in February, police said. The crimes he was convicted of were committed between 1973 and 1975, according to court records.

Tracys Landing man shoots girlfriend, kills himself A 21-year-old Tracys Landing man shot his 20-year-old girlfriend before killing himself after an argument Sunday, Anne Arundel County police said. Andrew Mackall grabbed a .357-caliber handgun from a gun safe at his parents' house in the 6200 block of Franklin Gibson Road about 4:40 p.m., according to police. Mackall, who lived at the home, shot his girlfriend in the torso before turning the gun on himself, police said. The woman, who did not live at the house, was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore in critical but stable condition.

Man found fatally shot in Mosher neighborhood A man was found fatally shot yesterday afternoon near a church in the city's Mosher neighborhood, and police were without a suspect or a motive in the city's 21st homicide this year, authorities said. The victim's name was not released. Southwestern District police responded to a report of a shooting in the 900 block of Poplar Grove St., between West Lafayette Avenue and Mosher Street near St. Edward Catholic Church, and found the man bleeding from at least one bullet wound to the head.

3 colleges schedule graduations Three county colleges and universities have scheduled commencement ceremonies this week. Towson University will hold graduation exercises at 10 a.m. and at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Thursday and Friday for its colleges and schools at the Towson Center arena on campus. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County's undergraduate ceremony will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at 1st Mariner Arena, 201 W. Baltimore St. The graduate school ceremony will be at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Retriever Activities Center on campus.

Police seek identity of homicide victim An autopsy has determined that an unidentified man whose badly burned body was found Sunday morning in a new townhouse community near Middlesex Elementary School was a homicide victim, county police said yesterday. They declined to release the cause of death or discuss other details of the investigation. Police released a sketch of the victim and were asking yesterday for the public's help in identifying the man. They described the victim as 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 140 pounds and missing some teeth.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Southern Victim named -- Police yesterday released the name of the man fatally shot early Monday outside Paradox Nightclub in the 1000 block of Russell St. Police said Murriel Chew, 20, of the 4400 block of Franconia Drive, was involved in a dispute with another man outside the club about 2:30 a.m. when he was shot and pronounced dead at the scene....