Northeast Baltimore

Baltimore police are investigating four homicides and a nonfatal shooting that occurred Sunday during a violent weekend that also left a 36-year-old woman in critical condition after her car was shot at as she sat at a stoplight. Police said they believe at least two of the incidents are connected and that they have "persons of interest" in at least three of the cases. "There's no question it was a violent weekend," said spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. "We're looking at the motives and connections, but we have to pause and look at the greater picture.

The owner of a downtown 7-Eleven that was attacked by a mob of youths drawn by a free Slurpee promotion says an envelope filled with the day's receipts — $6,600 in cash — went missing during the melee, according to Baltimore police. Salman Iqbal told police that the money was in his front right shirt pocket while he was being attacked Wednesday afternoon after he confronted up to 40 youths wearing yellow school shirts and khaki pants. He reported that some youths had stolen candy from the store on Light Street, near the Inner Harbor.

I couldn't agree more with Frank Diventi ( "Once again, the county beats the city on snow removal," Jan. 30). I, too, live in Northeast Baltimore, about a fifth of a mile from the county line. It has now been four days since the storm and still no city plow. Had it not been for a good samaritan neighbor with a small plow, we would still be snow-bound. There have been many ocassions when all the neighbors got out and shoveled the street, something I can no longer do since I now have a heart condition.

Three separate violent acts left two men injured and one dead between Monday night and Tuesday morning in Baltimore, police said. The killing occurred in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore, at about 12:15 a.m. Police were called for a report of an unresponsive person in a home in the 600 block of N. Carey St., and found a 58-year-old man in a makeshift closet in a room where hypodermic needles and plastic bags were strewn around the...

City police say a 27-year-old man stabbed in the neck during a stick-up in Northeast Baltimore last week has died from his injuries, while detectives were investigating a similar incident that occurred Tuesday night about a mile away in which two men were stabbed in the chest. On April 27, police say Darian Kess walked out of his apartment, in the 1200 block of Linworth Ave. in the New Northwood neighborhood, to pick up a flier to order food and was followed back inside by three men carrying handguns.

A man who was stabbed in the Overlea area of Northeast Baltimore Sunday afternoon was in critical condition at an area hospital, said Det. Kevin Brown, a spokesman for the city police. The attack occurred at 1:40 p.m. in the 4100 block of East Northern Parkway. No other details were immediately available.

Baltimore Police have released the identity of the man who was fatally shot on Roundhill Road in Northeast Baltimore Tuesday night. The man, Eric Dozier, 25, was found lying on the sidewalk next to a vehicle at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night, police said. He was pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 12:40 a.m. There were no further updates in the case, said Baltimore Police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

A woman was critically wounded in a shooting Sunday afternoon in Northeast Baltimore and a man soon after was detained for questioning, according to city police. The woman, who was in her 20s, was shot multiple times in the 1800 block of Abbotston St., near Clifton Park. She was transported to a local hospital, where she was in critical but stable condition, police said. Her name was not released. While investigating in the area, police officers found a man who fit the description of the suspect, in the 1500 block of E. 29 t h St. Police are questioning the man, who has not been charged.

A 52-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the robbery and assault of an 80-year-old woman in Northeast Baltimore over the weekend, police said Sunday. The victim dropped her wallet while walking in the 7600 block of Harford Road around midday Saturday, and a man tried to grab it from her as she picked it up, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department. After assaulting her during a brief struggle, the man overpowered her and ran with the wallet, Silbert said.

For decades, veteran police officers viewed Baltimore's Northeast Police District, dominated by middle-class, low-crime neighborhoods, as a "country club" assignment. But a rise in crime in some neighborhoods is changing that sentiment. Shootings and violence have been on the rise in the district — the city's largest, spanning 17 square miles including Lauraville, Ednor Gardens and Belair Edison — and it leads the city in homicides this year. The Police Department recently designated two neighborhoods in the area as "violent crime enforcement zones," putting them on a par with some of the most troubled spots in the city.

There's a swirl of violence occurring around 78-year-old Florence Carter, and she says she doesn't know why. But for the first time in nearly five decades, she's being forced to contemplate moving out of her Northeast Baltimore home. "My daughters, they want me to get up and move," Carter said. "But I've been here so long. I've been here 46 years. At my age, I can't afford another house. " Four homicides and a nonfatal shooting occurred on Mother's Day in Baltimore, and two of the victims are connected to Carter.

Baltimore police are investigating four homicides and a nonfatal shooting that occurred Sunday during a violent weekend that also left a 36-year-old woman in critical condition after her car was shot at as she sat at a stoplight. Police said they believe at least two of the incidents are connected and that they have "persons of interest" in at least three of the cases. "There's no question it was a violent weekend," said spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. "We're looking at the motives and connections, but we have to pause and look at the greater picture.

Baltimore police are investigating three shootings in the city on Friday night and early Saturday morning, including one that involved a female victim who says she was shot several times inside her vehicle while waiting at a red light. Detective Jeremy Silbert said the 36-year-old woman, who is expected to survive, was shot multiple times in her upper body around 2:42 a.m. in the 3200 block of E. Northern Parkway in Northeast Baltimore. The victim told police that she was stopped at a traffic light when a person pulled up next to her in an unknown vehicle and fired several shots.

A 46-year-old man pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced 40 years prison for stabbing to death a 91-year-old woman during a break-in last year in Northeast Baltimore. Police had linked the suspect's DNA to under the victim's fingernails and to a cigarette butt discarded outside her front door. "The way we closed this case was right out of a scene from'CSI,'" city police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said after detectives arrested the suspect in September, referring to the popular television series that focuses on solving crimes through high-tech forensic techniques The victim, Irene Logan, was found dead in her home in the 4700 block of Moravia Road on Aug. 3, 2011.

The other evening, I sat at Doris Poling's dining room table and we discussed Overlea. A lifelong resident of the Northeast Baltimore neighborhood, she asked what angle I would take in writing about it. After all, it is a quiet, livable residential community crossed by Belair Road and straddling Baltimore City and Baltimore County. Not much happens here, except for the current spring show of lilacs, fresh grass, irises, azaleas and buzzing bees. The place, with its church steeples and old-fashioned walk-to shopping strip, looks like a community out of a holiday train garden.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake climbed into a cherry picker Wednesday morning, rising above Harford Road to install a new surveillance camera in Northeast Baltimore, one of 33 the city is adding to a network that has grown to nearly 600. The new cameras, which have been installed along East North Avenue and will eventually spring up along Harford and Belair roads around Clifton Park, are funded by federal and local grants. Rawlings-Blake has overseen the addition of 100 cameras to the network since taking office.

City police are investigating two killings that occurred Monday, including the death of a 37-year-old woman who was found beaten in her home in the Waltherson neighborhood of Northeast Baltimore, according to authorities. Police identified the woman as Somchanh Sipayboun, who lived in the 5400 block of Hillburn Ave., just off Frankford Avenue. Det. Jeremy Silbert, a city police spokesman, said she suffered from trauma but a cause of death was pending a ruling from the medical examiner.

A third person has been arrested in connection with the mid-March videotaped beating of a man in downtown Baltimore, police said. Deangelo Carter, 18, of Baltimore, was taken into custody Tuesday in Northeast Baltimore, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department. Carter has been charged with first-degree assault, he said. Police are still looking for a fourth person — Shatia Baldwin, 21, of Baltimore — who they say took part in the assault on a man from Alexandria, Va. Baldwin is named in a warrant that charges her with assault and robbery.