Northwest Baltimore

Members of the Baltimore Gun Tracing Task Force raided a Glen Burnie pawn shop and the owner's Northwest Baltimore home yesterday, seizing more than 250 guns and multiple crates of ammunition two weeks after the owner pleaded guilty to a felony. Police said the owner of B&A Pawn was not charged with a crime yesterday. The state police licensing division revoked the firearm dealer's license for B&A Pawn yesterday, and investigators from the task force - made up of officers from Baltimore, Baltimore County and the state - are examining weapons and reviewing sales records looking for possible violations.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 239 THE VICTIM A man was killed Sunday about 7 p.m. in a drive-by shooting in the 2600 block of Quantico Ave. in Northwest Baltimore. A pregnant woman who was also shot was in serious condition, police said. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 218 homicides as of Oct. 15, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides are at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap

A 31-year-old man who was beaten with a tree branch Tuesday morning in Northwest Baltimore has died of his injuries, and police added his name yesterday to the list of this year's homicides, bringing the total to 268. The victim was identified as Quentin Reddicks-Flowers of the 2400 block of Francis St. in West Baltimore. Police said two witnesses saw him get tackled, punched and beaten about 11:45 a.m. in the 4000 block of W. Rogers Ave. Officers found a bloody tree branch nearby. Police said Reddicks-Flowers died at Sinai Hospital at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday That same day, police detectives arrested Jermaine Cornish, 17, of the 5500 block of Gist Ave., and charged him with first-degree murder.

Joel R. Kruh, a Baltimore attorney who enjoyed playing sports, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack while driving on the Baltimore Beltway. The longtime Owings Mills resident, who was pronounced dead at St. Agnes Hospital, was 61. Mr. Kruh was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and was 6 years old when he moved with his family to Crawford Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. He was a 1964 graduate of City College, where he was a track star, family members said. While attending law school at the University of Baltimore, where he earned his law degree in 1975, Mr. Kruh drove a taxi, taught driving and was an insurance adjustor.

A 21-year-old Baltimore man who was shot multiple times Saturday night was pronounced dead not long after the incident at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said yesterday. The victim, Gary Watts, 21, whose last known address was in the 3300 block of St. Ambrose Ave. in Northwest Baltimore, was shot about 10 p.m. as he was walking in the 1300 block of N. Rosedale St. with two other men, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Witnesses told police that multiple shots were fired at Watts by unknown assailants from inside a dark-colored vehicle.

Baltimore police have identified a 47-year-old man who was fatally shot Monday in a suspected robbery in Northwest Baltimore. A police officer in the 2800 block of Quantico Ave. in Park Heights saw a man with a gunshot wound walking out of an alley just after 3 p.m. Andre Bryant of the 3700 block of Overview Road was taken to Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 3:38 p.m., police said. Bryant was being robbed by two men and was shot in the back while trying to escape, police said.

Baltimore police identified last night a man who was fatally shot Wednesday night in Northwest Baltimore. Nathaniel Footman, 18, of the 100 block of West St. in Annapolis was found about 9:40 p.m. in an alley in the 3000 block of Woodland Ave. in Park Heights. He died early Thursday at Sinai Hospital, police said. Police did not know of any suspects or a motive in the killing.

In Baltimore CityState highway workers forced to leave offices after bomb threatsThe State Highway Administration received four bomb threats at its downtown offices yesterday, forcing the evacuation of some 1,000 employees each time, police said.The SHA, which occupies a six-story building at 707 N. Calvert St., received the first bomb threat around 6: 45 a.m. and the others came in intervals of an hour or so until the last one at 11 a.m., said Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman.

Charlotte R. Thom, 85, Hutzler's manager, teacherCharlotte R. Thom, former department store official and retired educator, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at John Knox Village, a retirement community in Tampa, Fla. She was 85.Mrs. Thom, who also had resided at Broadmead, the Cockeysville retirement community, was human resources manager for Hutzler's department store chain in Baltimore from 1948 until 1961. She then taught second grade at Mount Royal Elementary School and retired in 1985.

Three men were killed in unrelated shootings in East and Northwest Baltimore Tuesday and early yesterday, police said.About 1: 25 a.m. yesterday, police responding to a report of gunshots in the 1100 block of Ashland Court on the east side found the body of an unidentified man in his 30s seated behind the steering wheel of a parked car. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for identification through fingerprints.Shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday, Raymond Haidley, 20, of the 1700 block of N. Washington St. in the Broadway East section was shot in the back several times by an unknown assailant in the 400 block of E. 24th St. near Greenmount Avenue, police said.

Two 16-year-old boys have been arrested and charged as adults with attempted murder in the Thursday night shooting of an off-duty police officer in front of his Northwest Baltimore home, according to the city's police commissioner. Craig Tillett and Kevon Wilson are also charged with robbery and other offenses in the attack on Detective Aaron Harris, a 16-year veteran of the police force, authorities said. Two assailants tried to rob Harris as he approached his porch about 10 p.m. in the 6000 block of Highgate Drive, police said.

The assistant principal at an Orthodox Jewish school in Northwest Baltimore has been indicted in the theft of more than $13,000 in school checks, which he is accused of depositing into his bank account, city prosecutors said. Rabbi Jay Kenneth Wagner, who worked at Yeshivat Rambam/Maimonides Academy of Baltimore at 6300 Park Heights Avenue until recently, was arrested and released Tuesday after posting a small cash bond, according to court records. The indictment was filed Sept. 10. Wagner, 32, of the 3400 block of Labyrinth Road in Northwest Baltimore has no previous arrests, according to Maryland's online court records.

Man is fatally shot in Northwest Baltimore Police were seeking the driver of a gray Jeep in the fatal shooting Sunday afternoon of a man on a street in the Towanda-Grantley neighborhood in Northwest Baltimore. Agent Donny Moses said the victim was standing near West Cold Spring Lane and Reisterstown Road about noon when a gunman exited the wanted vehicle, walked up to the victim and shot him at least once in the head before returning to the Jeep and driving off. The victim died a short time later at an area hospital.

Charles Pennington LaMont, a day care assistant who volunteered with several AIDS organizations, died of a seizure Aug. 13 at his Saratoga Street apartment. He was 22. Mr. LaMont was born and raised in Northwest Baltimore and Hagerstown. Mr. LaMont, who had suffered from Asperger's syndrome, a neurological disorder that produces autisticlike behavior, had spent his teenage years at a group home in Hagerstown, where he graduated from Washington County High School. "Charles had recently started the process of enrollment at Baltimore City Community College and had hoped to pursue a career as a social worker," said his father, Alonzo D. LaMont Jr. of Northwest Baltimore.

Schools OK contract for reading material 2 The Baltimore County school board unanimously approved Tuesday night a $3.44 million contract to the Pennsylvania-based American Reading Co. for supplemental reading materials, as well as professional development for teachers in Title I schools. The program, which is to be funded using Title I federal stimulus money, is an extension of a pilot reading initiative, which school officials say has shown success in "substantially" raising students' reading levels.

Car hits street-sweeper truck in White Marsh, killing 3 2 Three people were killed Monday in White Marsh when a car rammed into the back of a street-sweeper truck, Baltimore County fire officials said. Authorities have not released the victims' names, ages or genders. The accident happened on Honeygo Boulevard near Whitemarsh Boulevard about 5 a.m., fire officials said. - Brent Jones County GOP chairman calls for Moxley to resign after 2nd DUI 3 The chairman of the Baltimore County Republican Central Committee has called for the resignation of County Councilman Sam Moxley, a four-term Democrat who was arrested on drunken-driving charges Friday in Baltimore city.

Woman reports rape try at Convention Center Police disclosed Thursday that a 24-year-old woman was the victim of an attempted rape Saturday morning in front of the Baltimore Convention Center. According to a copy of the police report, the woman was walking in the 300 block of Sharp St. near Pratt Street about 6:30 a.m. when she was approached by a man who grabbed her from behind and began choking her, preventing her from screaming. She said the man forcibly pulled her underwear off then called for someone to pick them up, according to police.

Gerald "Captain Jerry" Millman, a former used-car dealer and haberdasher who founded Captain Jerry's Custom T-shirts, died Sunday of kidney and heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 82. Born in Baltimore, Mr. Millman was raised in the city's Pimlico neighborhood. After graduating from Forest Park High School, he served in the North Atlantic aboard the Coast Guard cutter Dexter. After being discharged from the service, he established a used-car business in Brooklyn at Patapsco Avenue and Potee Street.

Members of the Baltimore Gun Tracing Task Force raided a Glen Burnie pawn shop and the owner's Northwest Baltimore home yesterday, seizing more than 250 guns and multiple crates of ammunition two weeks after the owner pleaded guilty to a felony. Police said the owner of B&A Pawn was not charged with a crime yesterday. The state police licensing division revoked the firearm dealer's license for B&A Pawn yesterday, and investigators from the task force - made up of officers from Baltimore, Baltimore County and the state - are examining weapons and reviewing sales records looking for possible violations.

Girl, 7, struck by car in Northwest Baltimore dies 1 A 7-year-old girl who was hit by a car while crossing a busy Northwest Baltimore intersection with her mother died yesterday, police said. Niya Bolling had been in critical condition at Sinai Hospital and had been deemed brain dead since she was struck by a car Thursday at Park Heights and West Belvedere avenues, Baltimore police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said. Niya's mother, Sonia Savage, 26, remained in critical condition at Sinai last night, according to a hospital spokeswoman.