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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.

Man fatally shot by Baltimore officer A Baltimore police officer shot and killed a man who apparently tried to rob him and his girlfriend early yesterday outside a North Baltimore apartment building, a city police spokesman said. Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman, said a preliminary investigation revealed that the officer and a woman were sitting in his car in the 900 block of Belgian Ave. in the Pen Lucy neighborhood when a man approached about 4 a.m. The man, whose face was partially covered with a bandanna, came up to the passenger side of the car and pointed a handgun, first at the woman, next at the officer, and then again at the woman, Clifford said.

Two men whom police identified as Morgan State University students had a third student shoot them in the legs this week as a ploy to avoid a fraternity initiation process, authorities said yesterday. The injured students -- who have been released from Good Samaritan Hospital -- initially told detectives that they were victims of a gas station robbery, said Detective Sgt. Greg Robinson. No arrests have been made in the continuing investigation, though police say all three students might face charges including handgun violations, reckless endangerment and making a false statement to police.

A teenage boy who was found shot on a Northeast Baltimore street early yesterday died later of his wounds - the second teenager killed in the city in two days, police said. About 1 a.m., Northeastern District police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1600 block of Montpelier St., off Harford Road across from Clifton Park. Officers found a 17-year-old boy bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead shortly before 4 a.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.

Police identified a Northeast Baltimore man with a lengthy record as the driver of a sport utility vehicle that struck an officer Tuesday. Bernard Gough, 27, of the 1600 block of Heathfield Ave., was spotted driving a Ford Explorer and stopped by two plainclothes officers in a marked car in the 5500 block of Woodmont Ave, police said. The officers, who believed the SUV was stolen, identified themselves, but the driver sped off, police said. One officer, whom police have not identified, became caught in the vehicle and was dragged several hundred feet before firing his gun and grazing Gough in the neck, police said.

Two young men were shot and killed yesterday near an apartment complex in Columbia, one of the worst crimes there in recent memory.The Oakland Mills village neighborhood of Stevens Forest has been troubled by drug activity and petty crime, but many residents said the shootings in the densely populated area shocked and frightened them. The killings were the first in Columbia this year and brought to five the total for Howard County.Late last night, police identified the victims as: Johnathan R. Barney, 19, of the 9400 block of Timesweep Lane; and Davon Mayfield, 18, of the 7100 block of Peace Chimes Court, both of Columbia.

Police identified yesterday the woman who was found shot to death in Leakin Park Dec. 27 as Novella "Peaches" Brown, 41, of the 3600 block of W. Lexington St.Detective Kirk Hastings said dental records were used to identity Brown, the mother of three.Police said Brown was shot several times in the upper body. A pedestrian found her body, covered with debris and snow, in the woods off the 4500 block of Hutton Ave.Hastings said no arrest has been made.Pub Date: 1/13/99

Five people, including two boys ages 9 and 14, were shot within two hours yesterday in four separate incidents, Baltimore police said.The boys, who were shot by stray bullets about 2 p.m. in the 900 block of N. Chester St. in East Baltimore, were not seriously wounded. Police said the 9-year-old suffered a graze wound on an arm and the older youth also was shot in an arm."I just heard the shots, grabbed my children and dove to the floor," said Sharron Dorsey, 32, who lives in the same house as the 14-year-old victim across the street from the shooting.

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.

Police identified the 17-year-old boy killed in Sunday evening's motorcycle crash in Clarksville as Joshua Peter Mickley of the 8200 block of Rippling Branch Road in Scaggsville.Police said the youth was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Highland Road near Prestwick Drive when he suddenly veered into a Chevy Suburban, police said.The teen-ager was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.Pub Date: 4/07/98

Man charged after truck hits car, bursts into flames Anne Arundel County police charged a driver with leaving the scene of an accident and other traffic violations Sunday after authorities said his pickup truck hit a car and burst into flames in Pasadena. James Arthur Keedy III, 20, of the 100 block of Litton Dale Lane in Pasadena was driving a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado that ran a stop sign shortly before 6:45 p.m. and collided with a Toyota Avalon at Armstrong Drive and Ullman Road, police said.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Eastern Baltimore Shooting: A male, 18, sustained a graze wound to the back about 11 p.m. Sunday in the 700 block of N. Kenwood Ave. and refused treatment by a Fire Department ambulance crew. No arrest had been made and details of the shooting were not available. Northwest Baltimore Shooting: Police were investigating the shooting of a man, 21, in the 3700 block of Towanda Ave. about 1 a.m. Saturday. The victim was shot in the right chest and was treated at an area hospital.

City police have made an arrest in the strangling of a 51-year-old woman found dead in her apartment early Tuesday morning. Richard Kenneth Howard, 42, was charged with first-degree murder after a friend he accompanied to police headquarters told detectives Howard had been in the dead woman's apartment. Police were dispatched to the residence, in the 2200 block of Tucker Lane, at about 4:30 a.m. after receiving a call of an aggravated assault in progress, according to police spokesman Detective Nicole Monroe.

Man, 26, is found shot, killed in South Baltimore A 26-year-old Baltimore man was found shot and killed early Saturday in South Baltimore. Police were called to the 1200 block of Bayard St. at 12:20 a.m. for a report of gunshots and found Jaiwan C. Jones slumped over the central console of an Infiniti truck, said Agent Donny Moses, a city police spokesman. Jones, whose last known address was the 800 block of Washington Blvd., was pronounced dead at the scene. No suspect or motive was known, Moses said.

A flurry of shootings and killings over the weekend capped Baltimore's deadliest month of 2008, prompting city officials and police to consider new tactics to curtail a spike of violence that threatens to undermine gains they have been publicizing all year. With 31 homicides, the city experienced the most killings in the month of November in nine years. The violence came in bunches - a quadruple shooting in Northwest Baltimore that killed three; a triple shooting in Irvington; another triple shooting outside a downtown restaurant.

Man dies in shooting in West Baltimore Baltimore police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 32-year-old West Baltimore man who was found slumped in the driver's seat of a vehicle early yesterday. Officers responded to a report of shots fired in the 1800 block of Penrose Ave. about 12:40 a.m., said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. They found William Haskins in a 1995 Chrysler with the driver's side front and rear windows shot out, Moses said. The car's engine was running and still in gear, and had drifted into a parked car in front of it. Haskins was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:42 a.m. Liz F. Kay Two teens arrested in Edmondson robbery Two teenagers were arrested last week and charged in last month's armed robbery of a woman at Edmondson Village Shopping Center, police said.

Two people were charged with robbery and other offenses after a woman reported that her purse was stolen after she was hit by a car, county police said. Officers were called about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to Old Stage Road near Quarterfield Road in Glen Burnie for a report of a hit-and-run incident involving a pedestrian. A 41-year-old woman told police that she was struck by a burgundy Chevrolet Avalanche, and that someone in the vehicle had stolen her purse. The woman was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment of injuries that were not considered life-threatening, police said.

A Howard County student faces a felony charge, and another likely will be charged after an explosive device was detonated at Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City, police said yesterday. No one was injured in the incident Tuesday. On Thursday morning, one boy was charged as a juvenile with making and using a destructive device, a felony, and reckless endangerment, police said. Police identified a second student Thursday night, and they plan to charge him with the same counts. Both are 15. About 7:15 a.m. Tuesday, students reported that they heard an explosion in the lobby, police said.

Baltimore: Police shooting Killing suspect shot by officer identified Police identified yesterday the man who officials say stabbed a woman to death before being fatally shot by a Baltimore police officer Friday as city resident Dale R. Jones. Jones, 38, whose last known address was in the 800 block of W. Saratoga St., chased 31-year-old Shenera Norris, the mother of his 1-year-old son, through a Northwest Baltimore apartment complex and stabbed her shortly after 9 a.m. Friday, city 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.