Parking Lot

A 36-year-old woman was stabbed in the hand by a man who demanded her purse in the parking lot of Arundel Mills Mall Friday afternoon. Police arrested a Baltimore County man who led them on a chase that ended when he crashed the SUV he was driving into a building in West Baltimore. The suspect, Broderick Reginald Bennett, 49, of Windsor Mill, will be charged with armed robbery and assault, according to the Anne Arundel Police Department. The victim told police she was entering her vehicle outside the Neiman Marcus Last Call store when she was accosted by a man armed with a knife.

Note: Due to a clerical error in the court record, an earlier version of this story provided incorrect information regarding the sentence issued. It has been corrected here. A Baltimore man was sentenced Monday to serve a day shy of nine years in prison for killing his half-brother in the parking lot of a Glen Burnie restaurant. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner imposed a 10-year sentence on Cornelius K. Johnson and suspended one year and a day of it, according to court records.

A day after hundreds of Baltimore residents voiced strong opposition to a preliminary plan to add more parking spaces and an access road to Patterson Park, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Tuesday that she was creating a “working group” to study the park's future. “Today, I've ordered the Department of Recreation and Parks and the Health Department to work with Councilman [James] Kraft and community stakeholders to create a Patterson Park Master Plan Working Group,” Rawlings-Blake wrote in a letter sent to citizens.

Baltimore County Police have arrested a 17-year-old Woodlawn boy in the shooting of a man near Security Square Mall on Friday night. Rickey Jerome Freeman, of the 7500 block of Reserve Circle, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder and with using a firearm in the commission of a violent crime, police said. Freeman allegedly shot the man, who has not been identified, on Security Boulevard near the entrance to the mall after an argument broke out between two groups, police said.

A man was shot late Friday in the parking lot of Security Square Mall, police said. Police found the man shortly after 11 p.m. at the entrance to the parking lot suffering from at least one gunshot wound. A preliminary investigation shows that the man was shot after two groups began to argue. The victim was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police have one person in custody. No charges have been filed. ywenger@baltsun.com twitter.com/yvonnewenger

The news that Baltimore's leaders plan to put parking lots and a road in Patterson Park is a slap in the face to the residents of this city ("Residents irate at proposal to pave over green," Sept. 19). This speaks to a fundamental lack of respect from our local government. For all types of Baltimore citizens - young couples, artists, immigrants, families, and those in between - public spaces are a necessity. Are there secret plans to deface local libraries and schools? I would hope not. A sunny day at Patterson Park is often as vibrant and welcoming a spot as can be found in the state, and to gut that for parking spaces and more traffic is a sad misunderstanding of what cities are. Every attempt this city makes to pander to suburbanites, most of whom still won't move to the city, serves to sanitize the spirit of a city that once embodied the greatness of American urban space and could do so again.

A 78-year-old man was flown to the regional trauma center early Wednesday afternoon after he was hit by a truck in an Edgewood parking lot. J.B. Billings, of the 600 block of Wingleaf Court in Edgewood, was hit by a pickup truck around 12:15 p.m. in the parking lot of Edgewood Plaza in the 2200 block of Hanson Road, according to an accident report from the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Billings was walking across the parking lot in a crosswalk when he was hit by a 1987 Dodge Ram pickup driven by Philipo Lloyd Allen Cobb, 49, of the 3100 block of Sounding Drive in Edgewood.

Two teenagers were arrested Sunday and charged in the robberies of two people in the parking lot of Marley Station mall in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said that when they responded to a call around 6:07 p.m., a 34-year-old man told them he was walking to his car when he was attacked by a man, hit repeatedly and robbed of cash. The victim told police he tried to run away, but was chased to a parked car. There, his attacker assaulted a 30-year-old woman and stole cash from a purse inside her vehicle, police said.

A Hagerstown toddler is expected to recover from a gunshot wound to the chest suffered when a handgun he found in a parking lot discharged, family members said. Police said the 3-year-old boy, who was not identified, was playing with his 7-year-old sister Friday morning in a parking lot on West Franklin Street in Hagerstown when they found the gun, a .22-caliber Beretta, in the weeds. The gun fired and the young girl ran to alert her parents, police said. The boy was taken to Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, police said, adding that the extent of his injuries were not known.

A 25-year-old man was shot by a city police officer in the parking lot of a Northwest Baltimore courthouse Monday morning after he fled while being taken into custody and tried to run down an officer with a vehicle, police said. The incident occurred about 11 a.m. at the Borgerding District Court Building in the 5800 block of Wabash Ave. Col. Garnell Green, the commander of the homicide unit, said Tavon R. Williams had been detained at the courthouse on an open warrant and was shot in the arm as he attempted to flee.