Northeast Baltimore

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.

Baltimore City police are attempting to identify a shooting victim found Saturday night in the 4100 block of Parkwood Avenue in Northeast Baltimore. Responding to a report of gunshots being fired at about 8:30 p.m., officers found the victim in the lane off Belair Road with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Police said the man was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he died of his injuries about a hour later. Anyone with information that might help detectives identify the victim and notify next of kin are urged to contact Baltimore Police Homicide Detectives at 410-396-2100.

City police say they are investigating a home invasion robbery of an 84-year-old woman in Northeast Baltimore that occurred Thursday.  Police said the woman was outside her home in the 3000 block of Moravia Road, in the Moravia-Walther neighborhood near Lauraville, at about 12 p.m. when a man showed a gun and demanded money.  The suspect forced his way into the home, took money, and struck the victim in the face before fleeing. Police describe the suspect as a black male about 20 to 30 years old, 6 feet tall and wearing a dark t-shirt and dark pants.  "We were out in the neighborhood yesterday, and detectives are back again today looking for anyone that help us," said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman.  Police disclosed the incident on their daily webcast , a new feature the agency rolled out last week to provide information directly to the public.

A 54-year-old man was in stable condition after being shot in the knee Saturday night in Northeast Baltimore, police said. Officers responding to a report of a shooting found the man at the corner of The Alameda and E. Belvedere Ave. just after 6 p.m., police said. The man had been shot once in the knee. He was transported to an area hospital. No other details were available. Police ask anyone with information about the shooting to call 410-396-2455.

Police were investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Wednesday night in Northeast Baltimore, the district's seventh homicide of the year. About 10:55 p.m., police were called to the 1600 block of E. 31st St. in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood for a reported shooting. Inside a home, they found Martez Anthony Hall, 22, who had been shot several times in the torso. Hall was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:32 p.m., police said.

City police filed murder charges against a 22-year-old who they say shot and killed a man in a Northeast Baltimore parking lot, while dropping charges against a teenager who was standing with the victim and had fired back at the assailant. The shootings occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on March 4 in parking lot of a BP gas station and 7-Eleven in the 1100 block of E. Coldspring Lane. On surveillance tape, police saw an unknown gunman shoot 42-year-old Terrence Joyner, and as the gunman fled, they said 15-year-old Donye Thompson shot back.

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.

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.

Peter Marvit never missed rehearsal with the Baltimore Choral Arts Society, and this week he showed up wearing one of his trademark ties - short, fat, and brightly colored. After the three-hour practice concluded with "Carol of the Angels," director Tom Hall told everyone "to drive safe and be well. " But as Marvit returned to his Northeast Baltimore home, the 51-year-old scientist and father was gunned down just steps from his front door overlooking Herring Run Park - a seemingly random attack that police said Tuesday may have been a robbery.