Police Identified

Police identified yesterday a woman found stabbed to death Sunday near railroad tracks in the Mount Winans section of Southwest Baltimore as Yolanda P. Jones, 30, a mother of three, of the 2500 block of Ridgely St.Detective Danny Danzy said the crew of a passing CSX freight train spotted Jones' body lying near tracks off the 2200 block of Hollins Ferry Road, a few blocks from where she lived, about 8: 15 a.m. Sunday and called police.Danzy said Jones was the mother of two boys, ages 10 and 22 months, and a girl, 4.In another case, police identified yesterday a man found fatally shot last week in West Baltimore's Leakin Park as Vincent Blatch, 35, of the first block of Caraway Road in Reisterstown.

Baltimore County police identified a 40-year old woman who was charged after brandishing what an officer believed to be a gun before he shot her multiple times in Pikesville early Saturday. Stephanie Kamlot threatened an officer with a metallic replica of a large-caliber semi-automatic handgun after he ordered her to drop it several times, causing him to shoot Kamlot, according to a police statement. Kamlot was shot in the upper body and taken to a city hospital for treatment, police said.

A man who was shot during an argument Tuesday on a West Baltimore street died yesterday, police said.William Eric Wells, 29, of the 1900 block of McKean Ave. died about 2: 15 a.m. yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center without identifying his assailant, police said. Wells was shot several times during an argument in the 1900 block of N. Monroe St. about 3: 40 p.m. Tuesday.Also yesterday, police identified the victims of two unrelated incidents. They said no arrests have been made and no motive was known in either of the cases.

Police on Friday identified a man killed earlier this week in Reservoir Hill and continue to search for a suspect. Andre Evans, 20, was shot to death after an argument grew into an altercation in the stairwell of a building in the 2500 block of Eutaw Place about 9 p.m. on Wednesday, Baltimore police said. Homicide detectives continue to investigate the case. Early Friday, police said a man was shot in the leg in the Patterson Park neighborhood. Police have no suspects in the shooting, which took place at about 1:40 a.m. in the 100 block of S. Bouldin St. jgeorge@baltsun.com Twitter.com/justingeorge

Police identified yesterday three homicide victims who were shot this week. Kevin Willis of the 1500 block of N. Fulton Ave. and Reginald Lee of the 500 block of Gold St. were killed Wednesday afternoon in the 1500 block of N. Mount St. in West Baltimore, police said. Their ages were not available. Lt. Ben Lieu of the homicide squad said the motive for the shootings was an argument the victims had with a man earlier Wednesday. No arrest had been made. Also yesterday, police identified Aaron Edwards of the 900 block of Valley St. in East Baltimore as the man who was declared dead late Tuesday in the 3300 block of Erdman Ave. He had been shot by an unknown assailant in the 5100 block of Lodestone Way. In that incident, Calvin Henderson, 21, of the 4000 block of Wilsby Ave. was shot dead in his car. Edwards and Milton Tillman of the 3800 block of Kimble Road were shot in another car nearby, police said.

State police identified yesterday the remains of a man whose body was hit multiple times on Interstate 95 in Howard County early Monday and scattered across a quarter-mile stretch of the highway. Maryland State Police 1st Sgt. Russell Newell said that the victim was a 26-year-old from Prince George's County, but authorities would not release the name because detectives had not reached the victim's relatives. Until yesterday, cars had badly marred the body to the point that police could not immediately determine the victim's race, gender or cause of death.

Baltimore police released yesterday the names of three men killed in apparently unrelated slayings in recent days, but added two more killings last night to a growing city homicide toll in the new year. Detectives also were investigating another man's death as a homicide after he was found last week in woods in North Baltimore, reportedly bound with duct tape. The steady pace of violence that closed out last year with 275 homicides in Baltimore -- six more than in 2005 -- shows no sign of abating in 2007.

A man Prince George's County police said was a military police officer was shot and killed yesterday after a NationsBank branch in Camp Springs was robbed.Police said a man walked into the bank, in the 6300 block of Allentown Road, about 10: 30 a.m., pulled out a .38-caliber handgun and announced a robbery.When he left after being given cash, a guard who had made his way outside during the robbery confronted him, police said. The man fired several shots at the guard, who shot back, hitting the man several times, police said.

Police identify victim of fatal shooting Police identified yesterday a man found shot to death Wednesday night in the doorway of his Middle River home. The victim was identified by county police as Tyrone Barnes Jr., 32. Responding to a report of shots being fired shortly before 9:30 p.m., police entered an apartment building in the 9800 block of Langs Road in the Victory Villa Gardens community and found the man bleeding from at least one bullet wound. Barnes was pronounced dead at the scene, and his body was taken to the state medical examiner's office for an autopsy, police said.

A prominent Baltimore County lawyer has been accused of exposing himself to a female jogger on the Northern Central Railroad Trail on Thanksgiving morning, and police say the suspect matches the description of the half-naked man who has confronted women on the trail for the past 18 months. Police identified the suspect as David C. Daneker, 61, who was arrested Nov. 28 at his home in the 12600 block of Long Green Pike in Hydes. Daneker, vice president and general counsel for Sheppard Pratt Health System and a former partner at the Baltimore firm of Miles & Stockbridge, said yesterday that it is a case of mistaken identity.

Baltimore Police identified two suspects on Friday that were involved in a shootout with officers in West Baltimore earlier in the week that left one person dead. Ricky Dixon, 21, was charged with attempted murder and several weapons charges, police said. The other suspect identified, 23-year-old Larry Hooker, was killed in the shootout. The incident took place at about 10 p.m. Monday after two officers on foot patrol in the 2700 block of Edmondson Ave. saw gunfire coming out of a bronze sedan, police said.

Annapolis police have released the names of a shooting victim and two men who died of suspected drug overdoses on Sunday, all three of whom appeared to be from Calvert County. Police believe John Donnel Ray, 32, of the 4600 block of Rolling Hill Road, Huntingtown, was shot in his car in the 200 block of Victor Parkway, according to Detective Richard Truitt. He was found dead in the vehicle. He said detectives think there may be witnesses to the crime. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Charles Bealefeld at 443-986-5561.

Baltimore Police have identified the man killed in a shootout with an officer responding to a domestic violence complaint late Thursday night in Canton. Police said John R. Monroe, 42, was the man who was fatally shot by an officer in the 3400 block of Foster Ave. Officers had visited a home at about 11:45 p.m. for a disturbance between Monroe and two women, one of them his wife, police said Friday. Minutes later, the officers heard gunshots and chased Monroe, trading gunfire. Monroe did not appear to have any prior handgun or other arrests beyond a 2004 second-degree assault conviction, according to Maryland court records.

Police on Wednesday identified the man killed near the east edge of Leakin Park on Tuesday afternoon. Andrew Morris, 21, of the 1300 block of Division St., was found unresponsive in the 3800 block of Clifton Ave. at about 4:15 p.m., Baltimore police said. Paramedics responded and transported him to an area hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4:50 p.m. Baltimore police have no suspect or motives and detectives are investigating, police spokesman Det. Vernon Davis said. jgeorge@baltsun.com Twitter.com/justingeorge

Baltimore County Police have identified the 39-year-old man killed Tuesday while performing lawn maintenance at North Charles Street and Old Willow Way in Towson. The victim was identified as Noe Rodriguez Alverto, of Middle River. At 10:53 a.m. Tuesday, police and fire units responded to a call for a pedestrian struck. Police said a 2002 Chrysler PT Cruiser driven by Malinda Johnson, 41, had been traveling northbound on North Charles Street when it struck Alverto. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Police identified the woman killed in a shooting Friday evening as 42-year-old Tanya Raymond. She was a member of the 1988 class of Patterson High School, according to her Facebook profile, and lived in the block where she was shot and killed. Officers were called to the 2700 block of Kinsey Avenue at about 7:45 p.m. Friday and found two shooting victims inside a home, police said. The other victim, a man who police have not identified, was taken to an area hospital for treatment.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 237 THE VICTIMS Police identified the victim of Thursday night's barbershop shooting in the 1100 block of W. Baltimore Street as Kevin Ware, 40, of the 800 block of W. Lexington St. He was an employee of the shop. Police identified the victim of Tuesday's fatal shooting as Montaz Askew, 20, of the 1600 block of Normal Ave., near Clifton Park. He lived in the same block as the shooting. Police said investigators still do not know the name of the man whose body was found about 6:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 3400 block of Winterbourne Road near Leakin Park.

The body of a 44-year-old Essex man was found yesterday morning in the 1600 block of Doolittle Road, Baltimore County police said. Police identified the man as Stanley Gordon Ficher of Stemmers Run Road. Police said they had no additional information on Ficher's death, which is being treated as a homicide. The investigation is continuing.

Baltimore police on Monday identified the officer who shot a man police said was firing guns in the backyard of a house Thursday night. The officer is Steven Angelini, a seven-year veteran of the department. Police said officers were called to the 6700 block of Danville Avenue, which is off Dundalk Avenue, about 8:30 p.m. Thursday for reports of gunfire. Officers found a man in the backyard of a home shooting weapons, and Angelini shot the man. The man was taken to a hospital for his injuries, and no officers were hurt.

One man was killed and two others injured in separate shooting incidents overnight across the city, police said. The fatal shooting occurred about 6:45 a.m. Sunday in the 1600 block of E. 29th St. in the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore. Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman, said the man was shot at least once and taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died in the afternoon. Police identified the man Monday as Dwight Cook, 28, of the same block, but provided no additional information, including a possible motive in the shooting.