Parking Lot

Just after 2 a.m. April 17, Charlie Price realized that David Bayard, his close friend, had left the D.C. nightclub where they'd been partying for a friend's birthday. Where did he go? Price wondered, dialing Bayard's cell. Would he be able to get home? he thought, dialing again. The night was muddled by drinking, and Price can't remember whether they connected. Hours later, a detective told Price his friend had been killed. The 24-year-old University of Maryland graduate student was found dead about 7:30 a.m. in his car, which was parked near a McDonald's in Prince George's County, just a few miles from the club.

A 63-year-old retired schoolteacher was found shot to death inside her car in the parking lot of a Glen Burnie shopping center Friday morning, Anne Arundel County police said. Police were called around 11 a.m. Friday to a parking lot in the 7300 block of Ritchie Highway, where they found Myra Elizabeth Cason of Glen Burnie inside her Suzuki Sidekick with a gunshot wound to the chest. Cason was last seen leaving Maryland Primary Care Physicians around 7:50 a.m. She was discovered later in the parking lot in front of a Pep Boys and a Gavigan's furniture store, police said.

Police are looking for a man who snatched a purse in the parking lot of an Annapolis department store Monday morning.Police said a Glen Burnie woman, 24, was in the parking lot of the J. C. Penney store at Annapolis Mall about 9: 40 a.m. when a man grabbed the purse off her shoulder and ran toward Jennifer Plaza.The woman told police that her purse's contents included credit cards, an ATM card and $10.The thief is described as a white male in his early 20s, about 5 feet 11, 130 pounds, and wearing a white baseball cap, a white T-shirt and baggy shorts.

A patron at the EconoLodge motel in Elkridge was robbed Sunday night as he walked through the parking lot, county police said. A man armed with a handgun approached the patron about 8:30 p.m. as he headed toward his room at the motel in the 5800 block of Washington Blvd., police said. The gunman took an undisclosed amount of cash, fled across the parking lot and drove away in an older-model four-door sedan, police said. The robber was described as a black male about 25 years old, 5 feet 8 inches tall and 160 pounds.

For the second time in a month, a woman loading groceries in the parking lot of a Glen Burnie Giant Food store has been robbed by an armed man, according to county police records."

A 22-year-old Annapolis woman was kidnapped Thursday night as she got out of her car at a Spa Road convenience store, county police reported.Jean Lynn Stone, of the 200 block of Hilltop Lane, pulled into the parking lot of the WAWA store in the 1000 block of Spa Road at 9:12 p.m.As she started to get out of her car, a man ran up, forced her back inside and told her to drive out of the parking lot, the police report said. The man rummaged through her purse until she pulled over in front of the 700 block of Annapolis Steet, about a mile away.

A long-awaited 80-space parking lot in the Baltimore County neighborhood of Oella officially opens today, easing the parking shortage in nearby historic Ellicott City, just across the Patapsco River."

A woman who was fatally shot was found about 10 last night in a late-model, blue Mercedes-Benz sedan on a shopping center parking lot in an upscale community of Arnold, Anne Arundel County police said.A short time later, a man surrendered to police and told them he had shot the victim and where she was. He was being interviewed by homicide detectives at Western District in Odenton.He was not identified, and police were withholding the victim's name pending notification of kin.Officer Debbie Mabe, a spokeswoman, said police went to the College Parkway Shopping Center, in the 1200 block of Bay Dale Drive in the Bay Hills section of Arnold, and found the body in the car, parked behind the Super Fresh supermarket.

People using Baltimore-Washington International Airport will have another parking option if a county administrative hearing officer approves a plan for a new 729-space lot on Camp Meade Road in Linthicum.The parking lot proposed by Flow Development Inc. of Lutherville would be on a wooded 6.89-acre parcel adjacent to the Park 'N' Go lot, which provides parking for BWI.A public hearing on the request is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. March 28 at Arundel Center in Annapolis before administrative hearing officer Robert C. Wilcox.

An early-morning fire caused about $500,000 in damage Friday to three parked commercial buses in Savage. There were no injuries. State fire marshals hadn't determined the source of the fire, which started at about 2:50 a.m. in the parking lot belonging to Yellow Transportation Inc. Twenty firefighters were called to contain the blaze.