Police Investigation

A Brooklyn Park man died after suffering several gunshot wounds early yesterday, Annapolis police said. Terrence Anthony Powell, 23, was killed in the first block of College Creek Terrace, where police had responded to a call about 4:45 a.m. reporting shots fired and a person possibly injured, said Officer 1st Class Kevin Freeman of the Annapolis Police Department. Powell died at the scene, Freeman said. The police investigation was continuing.

Stolen vehicle strikes cruiser; officer hurt A Baltimore police officer was injured early yesterday after a man driving a stolen vehicle sped through a stop sign and hit the officer's cruiser in West Baltimore, police said. Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman, said the Western District officer was heading north on North Fulton Avenue about 12:30 a.m. He said the driver of a stolen 1992 white Nissan Pathfinder was going east on Clifton Avenue when the vehicle went through the stop sign and hit the cruiser's left rear passenger door.

JERUSALEM -- Israel's attorney general said yesterday that prosecutors have enough evidence to charge President Moshe Katsav with raping or sexually harassing female subordinates while serving in his current post and earlier as tourism minister. But Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said a decision on whether to issue a first-ever criminal indictment against an Israeli president would depend on the outcome of a hearing during which Katsav has the right to rebut the allegations. Mazuz said the hearing would be scheduled in coming days.

A funeral for a teen-ager killed by a police officer last week resembled a political rally, drawing 200 mourners and politicians who grieved over the young man's death and condemned officers who patrol city streets."

Maryland State Police looking into assaults by guards against teens at three state boot camps are being hindered in their investigation because subpoenaed videotapes of activities at the facilities were heavily edited to exclude any violence against the delinquents.The tapes cover at least seven inductions -- the first day the teens arrive at the camps and the day guards tend to be most violent.Included in the tapes is a Nov. 29 induction at the Savage Leadership Challenge, one of the three camps in Garrett County.

Some friends, it turns out, draw closer and their love intensifies. Others -- actually, many others -- drift away. They don't feel comfortable anymore. Or they grow weary of your story and your complaints about the police. They think you're obsessed. And maybe you are. How do you ever get over the murder of a child?Especially if her killer is still out there -- unknown, unnamed, unseen.Bill and Fran Sirbaugh, reflecting on all that has happened since that horrific night in 1995 when their daughter was attacked, say the other men and women in their monthly bereavement group have had the same experience -- friends drifting away.

A Carroll County man has been charged with sexually assaulting a Hampstead girl, distributing child pornography and asking a minor for sex over the Internet -- using the Carroll County public library's service provider -- state police said yesterday.Calvin Gary Horelick, 47, of the 4800 block of Hillock Lane in Hampstead was arrested and charged Saturday with a variety of sex offenses stemming from a police investigation into child pornography e-mailed to a girl in Cape May, N.J. The child was also solicited for sex while in an online "chat room," police said.

A crowd of about 60 community leaders and residents called on the Annapolis Police Department last night to begin a new investigation into the 1996 death of Cochise O. Daughtry and demanded the dismissal of the police officer who shot the 18-year-old man.The Labor Day shooting in the Robinwood public housing complex polarized the city's black and white communities.Officer David W. Garcia said he saw two men brutally beating a third man and shot both alleged attackers. Daughtry died, and Vernon E. Estep Jr., 19, was seriously wounded.

Kenichi Fukui, 79, a Japanese chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his work on the principles of chemical reactions, died in Kyoto on Friday of cancerous peritonitis, family members said.Michael Tippett, 93, a composer who became one of Britain's most important musical figures while defying both English nationalism and academic musical fashion, died Thursday in London.Robert A. Houghton, 84, the former assistant chief in Los Angeles who led the police investigation into Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination and the Manson family murders, died in Los Angeles Dec. 31.Pub Date: 1/11/98

The principal of a Pasadena high school suspended an evening recreation program yesterday after a melee Thursday that ended in gunfire and led to the arrest of nine suspects.Harry Calendar, principal of Chesapeake Senior High School in the 4700 block of Mountain Road, suspended Open Gym, an after-school program operated by the Department of Recreation and Parks that usually attracts 50 to 75 youths.The program was suspended after a dispute between two students escalated into a brawl with about 75 people, police said.

Del. Jon S. Cardin found the woman of his dreams, and suddenly those three little words were on his lips: police-involved proposal. The Baltimore County Democrat and girlfriend Megan Homer were aboard a friend's boat in the Inner Harbor on Aug. 7 when on-duty city marine officers boarded the vessel. Pretending to search for contraband as a city police helicopter whirred overhead, the officers reportedly told Homer to turn around so they could handcuff her. When she did, there was Cardin down on one knee.

A wheel fell off a truck being towed Wednesday on the Capital Beltway's outer loop, crossed the median, stuck the grill of a tractor-trailer and ricocheted back across three travel lanes before landing on Channing M. Quinichett's Honda Civic. The wheel landed on the car's roof and front windshield, killing Quinichett, a University of Maryland senior, as she drove to a prenatal massage appointment. "Half a second earlier, she'd be 44 feet ahead; half a second later, she'd be 44 feet behind," said first sgt. Russell Newell of the Maryland State Police.

The company that manages two Anne Arundel County-owned golf courses has not adhered to a self-imposed deadline for providing documentation to police investigators to prove that it has not employed illegal immigrants, prompting county government officials to independently demand the information by today. Debra J.C. Dowd, a Richmond, Va., attorney representing Billy Casper Golf LLC, had told county police that she would provide a report detailing the company's compliance with federal employment eligibility requirements by Monday, but said yesterday that she had been waiting to learn if the county would drop its investigation in return for the audit.

Baltimore police yesterday were searching the streets around Lexington Market for two men who held up a guard for Dunbar Armored, according to a city police spokesman. The robbery occurred about 10 a.m. yesterday on a street near the usually crowded market on Eutaw Street. The spokesman, Officer Troy Harris, said two gunmen escaped with an undetermined amount of money from the armored truck. The truck's guard was armed, but no shots were fired, Harris said. A spokesman for Dunbar's Baltimore office, Sean Gibbons, said he would not comment to avoid compromising the city police investigation.

The driver of a city firetruck that hit a sport utility vehicle Sunday, killing its three occupants, sped through a red light at a Northwest Baltimore intersection while going 47 mph, according to a preliminary investigation by city police. A police spokesman said yesterday that the Nissan Murano was going 23 mph when it was hit by the truck at Park Heights Avenue and Clarks Lane about 3:20 a.m. The driver, Iryna Petrov, 49, was killed, along with her husband, Mikhail Petrov, 35, and friend Igor Saub, 24. "This is not a determination of cause," police spokesman Sterling Clifford said of the results released yesterday.

Morgan State University police think that at least two freshmen were involved in the stabbings of three other freshmen early yesterday outside a residence hall, a college spokesman said. Two of the male victims were treated and released from Good Samaritan Hospital. A third male victim was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he remained yesterday evening with injuries not believed to be life-threatening, said spokesman Clinton Coleman. Shortly after midnight, a female freshman left a dorm-room party and was harassed by at least two men outside the Thurgood Marshall residence hall, Coleman said.

Stolen vehicle strikes cruiser; officer hurt A Baltimore police officer was injured early yesterday after a man driving a stolen vehicle sped through a stop sign and hit the officer's cruiser in West Baltimore, police said. Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman, said the Western District officer was heading north on North Fulton Avenue about 12:30 a.m. He said the driver of a stolen 1992 white Nissan Pathfinder was going east on Clifton Avenue when the vehicle went through the stop sign and hit the cruiser's left rear passenger door.

JERUSALEM -- Israel's finance minister, Abraham Hirchson, said yesterday that he was leaving office for three months pending the outcome of a police investigation against him. The investigation involves suspicions that he embezzled funds before he joined the government, an Israeli police spokesman said. Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, announced that he would temporarily take over the finance portfolio for Hirchson, who is a close political ally. Also yesterday, Azmi Bishara, an Israeli Arab lawmaker and leader of the Arab nationalist party Balad, resigned from Parliament in a letter sent via the Israeli Embassy in Cairo.

A Brooklyn Park man died after suffering several gunshot wounds early yesterday, Annapolis police said. Terrence Anthony Powell, 23, was killed in the first block of College Creek Terrace, where police had responded to a call about 4:45 a.m. reporting shots fired and a person possibly injured, said Officer 1st Class Kevin Freeman of the Annapolis Police Department. Powell died at the scene, Freeman said. The police investigation was continuing.

JERUSALEM -- Israel's attorney general said yesterday that prosecutors have enough evidence to charge President Moshe Katsav with raping or sexually harassing female subordinates while serving in his current post and earlier as tourism minister. But Attorney General Menachem Mazuz said a decision on whether to issue a first-ever criminal indictment against an Israeli president would depend on the outcome of a hearing during which Katsav has the right to rebut the allegations. Mazuz said the hearing would be scheduled in coming days.