North Baltimore

City homicide detectives were on the scene of a death in the Tuscany- Canterbury neighborhood of North Baltimore, but police said the cause appeared to be accidental. Police said they were investigating a suspicious death Wednesday afternoon in the 3900 block of Cloverhill Road, just north of the Johns Hopkins University. A short time later, a police spokesman said officials believed the victim had fallen from a ladder. Additional details were not immediately available. justin.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson came to Baltimore on Nov. 8 to propose a reallocation of $70 million in funds currently allocated by the state for a new juvenile jail. Jackson, City Council President Jack Young, local ministers and others organizers of the event at the War Memorial were advocating for a reallocation in favor of "affirmative opportunities. " Such opportunities include proven alternatives to detention: recreational activities, jobs programs and neighborhood redevelopment, all aimed at changing daily life for Baltimore youth.

The 66-year-old wife of a prominent Annapolis church leader has been identified as the woman whose body was found partially submerged under the Jones Falls Expressway in North Baltimore last week. Police were called Friday morning to the 1800 block of Union Ave., just west of the highway in the Woodberry neighborhood, where they found the body of Emma Eileen Baltimore of Pasadena in the Jones Falls. There were no obvious signs of trauma to her body, and police were continuing to investigate.

A Baltimore Police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man after responding to a family disturbance in North Baltimore, officials said Tuesday, the first police shooting since the department implemented new rules governing the investigation of such incidents. The victim was identified as Sheron Carter Jackson, 21, who lived in the 2500 block of W. Coldspring Lane, where the shooting took place. Anthony Guglielmi, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said police were called to a home at about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday when an individual with a weapon was "about to do something crazy.

A 26-year-old Baltimore man has been charged with first-degree murder and 13 other crimes in a triple shooting inside a Mid-Govans home last month that left one man dead, police said Thursday. Police say they have identified Maurice Jerome Lonon as one of two men who on July 16 entered the home in the 5500 block of Lothian Road, pulled out a handgun and began shooting. Quinton Winder, 35, was shot in the head and later found sitting on a couch in a front room. Alfreda Ellis, 50, who was also shot in the head, was sitting on the floor, while Darnell Middleton, 28, who was shot in the face, was found in a rear alley.

A North Baltimore man died early yesterday of a gunshot wound he suffered during an attempted robbery near Druid Hill Park, police said.John Charles Williams, 36, of the 400 block of Winston Ave. was approached by an assailant with a handgun about 1 a.m. in the 2200 block of Division St. and was shot in the torso, said Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman. He was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.Pub Date: 10/18/99

A stray kitten that wandered into a North Baltimore backyard this month had rabies, the first city cat or dog found to have the disease in more than 20 years, officials said yesterday. Two people who tried to help the kitten are receiving medical treatment. Others who are concerned that they or their pets may have had contact with the kitten are asked to call the Bureau of Animal Control. The cream-colored male tabby kitten was found in a yard in the 7100 block of Marlborough Drive, near the city-county line, Aug. 5. The kitten, which appeared to be about 4 months old, was wounded on his back and a hind leg, said Bob Anderson, the director of the Animal Control Bureau.

John Richard "Dick" Irwin, 74, retires from the Baltimore Sun Monday after having spent 44 years reporting on the city's enduring crime industry and distilling and cataloging a never-ending litany of murders, shootings and robberies to his signature "police blotter. " He began the popular feature — which treated the theft of a tomato plant with as much reverence and importance as bank heist — in 1979 at the now-defunct News American, then to the now-defunct Evening Sun, and finally to the still-being-printed morning Baltimore Sun. Dick has been absent since February recovering from medical problems and hardly a night went by when a desk sergeant in some far-flung police outpost didn't ask the reporter making cop rounds, "Where's Dick?"

Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier told North Baltimore community leaders yesterday that he sees his agency as "changing from authoritarian to participatory" and invited them to help the department prevent and solve crimes.Speaking to about 180 North Baltimore neighborhood leaders during a breakfast at the Scottish Rite Temple at Charles and 39th streets, Frazier said the city made 19,000 arrests last year on drug-related charges. The community could help improve the situation, he said.

The sixth and final suspect was arrested yesterday in connection with the weekend firebombing of a community activist's rowhouse in North Baltimore, authorities said. Nakie Harris, 29, of the 2600 block of Barclay St. was arrested about 5 p.m. by members of the Police Department's Warrant Apprehension Task Force. Authorities said Harris was arrested without incident near Broadway and Harford Road. Another suspect told police that Harris, known by the nickname "Kil," helped manufacture the Molotov cocktails used in the attack, according to court papers.