Off Duty

An off-duty city police officer discharged his weapon after he was approached by another man while sitting in his car in North Baltimore, a police spokesman said. The officer was sitting in his vehicle in the 500 block of Harwood Ave. near York Road with his pregnant girlfriend at about 8 p.m. when a man entered the car, said police spokesman Det. Kevin Brown. The officer and the other man got into a scuffle and, at some point, the off-duty officer fired his weapon. Brown did not know how many shots were fired or whether the other man had a gun. The suspect is in custody and cooperating, but police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said he had not been charged.

An off-duty Baltimore police detective died Saturday night after he was assaulted in Southeast Baltimore, police said. Sources have identified the officer as Brian A. Stevenson, an 18-year department veteran. Stevenson, who police said was assigned to the Northeast District, was hit in the head with a rock or another hard object and may have been stabbed, said police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. Police established a crime scene in the parking lot of the Mercy-Canton Family Care center in the 2800 block Hudson Street, near Streeper Street Saturday night.

A Harford County jury found James Aaron Kimble of Joppa guilty Tuesday of assaulting an off-duty Baltimore City police officer in May, leaving him without the use of one eye. But the panel also decided that the attack was not racially motivated, finding Kimble not guilty of first-degree assault based on race or color. Detective Jermaine Cook was struck in the face after Kimble approached Cook's vehicle at a stop sign and yelled at him about his driving. Kimble hit Cook in the face with a drinking glass.

An off-duty Baltimore County police officer was shot in Overlea early this morning as he attempted to disperse a large group of people blocking traffic on a residential street, police said. Police said the incident began as the officer was driving near Dale Avenue and Danville Road around 3:20 a.m. There, the officer encountered a large group of people blocking the street, according to police. "He stopped his vehicle and asked them to move so he could pass," police said.  A man emerged from the crowd with a gun and fired several shots into the officer's car, striking him twice, officers said.

Tyrone Brown, a 32-year-old former Marine from East Baltimore, was out with his sister and her friend enjoying the Mount Vernon club scene early Saturday when he may have taken one of his trademark jokes too far. Glancing at a woman in an alley off East Eager Street, he put his hands on her behind. Police said the woman's companion, an off-duty Baltimore police officer, got into an argument and physical confrontation with Brown after they left the club, Eden's Lounge. His sister said that there was no fight and that her brother apologized and tried to walk away.

Isaiah Harrison didn't see the pit bull until it was too late. Now the federal law enforcement officer is home with a hand that will require surgery and physical therapy, and his 11-pound Yorkshire terrier-poodle mix is dead. "He was just a little puppy," said Pat Harrison, Isaiah's wife. "It's just so sad. It's terrible." Isaiah Harrison, a police officer with the Federal Reserve, was walking 17-month-old Little Stewie near his home in Ellicott City on Sunday when a pit bull appeared in front of them and attacked.

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An off-duty Baltimore police officer was robbed by a man who held her daughter at gunpoint as she was dropping the child off at a West Baltimore day care center Monday morning, police said yesterday. Authorities publicly disclosed the circumstances of the robbery more than 24 hours after the incident while detectives spent Monday chasing leads. Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman, said detectives were seeking the public's help in the incident, which occurred in the Harlem Park neighborhood.

A man was shot by off-duty city sheriff's deputies in East Baltimore last night during a holdup that took place a block from a Fraternal Order of Police union meeting on Pulaski Highway near Clinton Street.Police said three armed robbers entered the Me Too bar in the 3200 block of Pulaski Highway about 8: 50 p.m. and announced a holdup. In the tavern were three customers and two bar employees. All of them fled. The employees ran to a nearby tavern -- Looney's Santa Fe -- where about a dozen off-duty deputies from the Baltimore sheriff's office were holding an FOP meeting.

An alleged robber was shot and critically wounded last night by an off-duty Baltimore police officer working security at the Pay Less Shoe Source at Mount Clare Junction shopping center, investigators said.A man entered the store in the 1200 block of W. Pratt St. shortly before 7 p.m. and announced a robbery, apparently not realizing that the officer was there working security, police said.An employee handed the man cash and, while his attention was diverted, the off-duty officer pulled his pistol and announced he was a police officer, said Officer Sabrina Tapp-Harper, a police spokeswoman.