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Man, 24, is fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore A 24-year-old man was fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore early yesterday, police said. Michael Wilson of the 3100 block of Belair Road was found about 2:30 a.m. bleeding on a sidewalk in the Belair-Edison community and was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman.

Separate city shootings leave 2 dead, 4 wounded Two men were fatally shot early yesterday in separate incidents, city police said. About 2:20 a.m., police were called to a shooting outside Captain James Landing restaurant in the 2100 block of Boston St., said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. An altercation started in the restaurant and moved outside, he said. Officers found Lloyd Melton, 21, of the 2500 block of Druid Park Drive on the sidewalk with multiple wounds to his upper torso and head, Moses said.

Six men were wounded, one fatally, last night during what Baltimore City police believe was a drive-by shooting on a street just north of Green Mount Cemetery, authorities said. The occupants of a gray Nissan Altima seen speeding away from the East Baltimore scene were being sought. Shortly before 9:30 p.m., Eastern District police responding to multiple shots fired in the 2000 block of Boone St. found several young adult males suffering from gunshot wounds. A Fire Department official said victims also were found nearby, in the 2000 block of Greenmount Ave. "We had chaos," Agent Donny Moses, a city police spokesman, said last night.

A 6-year-old boy was wounded yesterday by a stray bullet during a shootout in Northeast Baltimore, police said. Police received a call about 5 p.m. about a shooting in the 3200 block of Lyndale Ave. at the corner of St. Cloud Avenue in Bel Air-Edison, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The boy, who was one of several children playing in the area at the time of the shooting, was struck once, Moses said. The bullet passed through the upper right side of the boy's chest and did not strike any vital organs, Moses said.

A 17-year-old boy was in critical condition after being shot in the neck in the 2500 block of McHenry St. yesterday afternoon, police said. The boy had been sitting on steps on the side of the street about 1 p.m. when he got up and walked into a space between two houses on the other side, police spokesman Agent Donny Moses said. Shots were fired and the boy fell. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was in critical but stable condition last night, Moses said. Police did not know of a motive for the shooting and had no suspects.

City police probe fatal 15-story fall City police are investigating the death of a man who apparently jumped from the 19th floor of a 26-story downtown apartment building Thursday evening. About 8 p.m., the man, believed to be in his mid-20s or early 30s and whose name was being withheld pending notification of his family, jumped from his 19th-floor apartment at the Park Charles at Charles Street, said Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the city Fire Department. Cartwright said the man struck a balcony on the fifth floor before landing on a fourth-floor balcony of the apartment building in the 200 block of N. Charles St. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Baltimore police released yesterday the name of the woman whose body was found Aug. 15 in Herring Run Park and said she was a student at the Community College of Baltimore County at Essex. Kiuna Jackson, 19, of the 1300 block of Windemere Ave. in the Ednor Gardens-Lakeside community had no criminal record or associations with criminals, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. About 7 a.m. Aug. 15, a jogger discovered her body lying on rocks under the Harford Road bridge between a paved trail and Herring Run. Moses said an autopsy by the state medical examiner's office determined that Jackson had been strangled.

Three people were shot yesterday in two separate incidents in West Baltimore, police said. About 7:20 p.m., a woman, 19, and a man in the 2100 block of Division St. in Druid Heights neighborhood when an unknown assailant shot the woman in the leg and the man in the shoulder, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The woman was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was reported in good condition. The man was treated at Maryland General Hospital. The other shooting was reported at 1:10 p.m. in Harlem Park, Moses said.

An autopsy by the state medical examiner's office has ruled the death of a 19-year-old woman, whose body was found under a bridge in Herring Run Park on Friday, a homicide by strangulation, a city police spokesman said. The victim's name was being withheld pending notification of family, said Agent Donny Moses, the spokesman. About 7 a.m., a jogger found the woman lying on rocks between a paved trail and a stream that runs under a bridge on Harford Road. Moses said no arrest had been made in the woman's death and that there was no evidence linking her slaying to those of several other women, some of them prostitutes, who were either beaten to death or strangled over the past several months around the city.

Baltimore police were seeking information about a person who shot a man outside a Northeast Baltimore rowhouse yesterday morning during what authorities said they believe was a dispute over his and a neighbor's pit bulls. The shooting occurred about 8:30 a.m. in the 3700 block of Elmora Ave. Soon after, police officers received reports that a suspect may have barricaded himself inside a house on the block. The Police Department's SWAT team and a police helicopter circled overhead for hours, and police cordoned off the area around the house with yellow crime scene tape.