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Maryland State Police say an officer with the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey has been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a Lansdowne man after an alleged road rage incident Saturday night in Anne Arundel County. Police say Joseph Walker, 40, of East Ampton, N.J. is being held at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center on a $1 million bond after the shooting, which took place along Interstate 97. Shortly after 8:30 p.m., troopers were called for the report of a shooting along the shoulder of the ramp from northbound Route 3 to I-97.

It took Chris Brown months to return to work after the death of her 17-year-old son. She has left her old home and is still hesitant to look at pictures of the teen. On Monday, a little more than a year after Christopher Brown died, the Baltimore County police officer accused of killing him is set to be tried for manslaughter. And Chris Brown will have to relive her loss through agonizing courtroom testimony. "Now I am faced with all those feelings again," said Brown, who plans to watch as prosecutors try to convict Officer James D. Laboard.

Ocean City police are investigating two weekend brawls on the boardwalk, including one that  resulted in the stabbing of a 22-year-old man. Police said Joseph Tyrice Cromartie, 20, of Clinton, was fighting with another man near Fifth Street and the Boardwalk early Sunday morning when people began gathering to watch. By the time uniformed officers on bicycles arrived, the crowd was very large and behaving in a disorderly manner, police said. When officers attempted to separate the two men who were pushing and yelling at each other, police said Cromartie became combative and assaulted the officers.

Lawyers for a veteran Baltimore police officer charged with killing his fiancee and then engaging in an hours-long standoff with fellow officers said Thursday that they want to explore whether he suffered from combat-related stress. The comments came after a brief hearing in which Officer James W. Smith, 49, pleaded not guilty, surrounded by a larger-than-normal complement of security staff in the courtroom of Judge Steven Sfekas. Smith was visibly upset, with defense attorney Linda Ramirez comforting him as the charges of first-degree murder and a handgun violation were read aloud.

Ravens linebacker Rolando McClain, who was originally scheduled to be at the City of Decatur (Ala.) Municipal Court tomorrow, has pleaded guilty to a window tint violation stemming from his arrest in January following a traffic stop. In exchange, the city has dismissed the charge of providing false information to police during the arrest. McClain, who signed an expletive on the citation rather than his real name, thus resulting in the providing false information charge, made an online payment of $186 to settle the fine and court costs and any other fees associated with this case.

Less than two weeks after signing a one-year contract with the Ravens, linebacker Rolando McClain was arrested in Decatur, Ala., on Sunday and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. McClain, who is from Decatur and played college football at Alabama, was arrested after an incident at Pines Park, according to a police report. Police officers arrived at Pines Park in response to a reported disturbance, resulting from what witnesses said was somebody spitting on McClain's car, according to Lt.

The New Jersey police officer accused of killing a man during an alleged weekend road rage incident was defending his family, his lawyer said Monday. Patrick McAndrew, attorney for Joseph Lamont Walker, 40, said his client had faced an "attack" on the on-ramp to Interstate 97 in Anne Arundel County. Maryland State Police say Walker shot and killed Joseph Harvey Jr., 36, after an altercation on the road. "The second version, the true version, will come out," McAndrew told Annapolis District Court Judge Thomas Pryal at a bail review hearing.

A Baltimore County police officer fired a shot yesterday at the driver of a minivan after being dragged by the vehicle across York Road, just north of the city line, authorities said. County police said they think the shot struck the minivan driver in the arm or shoulder. About a half-hour later, Baltimore police found the minivan, a Ford Aerostar with blood on the driver's seat, parked in front of a man's home in the 1500 block of Stonewood Road in the Northwood community of Northeast Baltimore, police said.

A Baltimore police officer shot and killed an apparently unarmed man last night during a struggle as he was being arrested for allegedly selling drugs. The death came a day after an officer and drug suspect were injured in a shootout four blocks away. Last night, a crowd of East Baltimore residents walked the streets shouting "O'Malley is a killer," referring to Mayor Martin O'Malley, and "This was police revenge." It was the seventh fatal shooting involving police since January 1999.

A 56-year-old Baltimore police officer, suspended yesterday after his arrest on sexual child abuse charges, shot and critically wounded two of his superiors before killing himself today at police headquarters.He was at the station to attend a hearing on the suspension, police said.The dead officer was identified as Calloway F. Hatcher, a veteran of 27 years on the force, currently assigned to the headquarters mail room.His supervisor, Major Peter C. Shaulis, 59, director of the Central Records Division and a 33-year veteran, suffered a gunshot wound over his right eye. He was taken to the Shock-Trauma Unit in Baltimore, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.

The New Jersey law enforcement officer charged with killing a Lansdowne man in a road-rage incident in Anne Arundel County was released from jail Wednesday after a $1 million bond was posted. Joseph Lamont Walker, a detective in the Hudson County, N.J., prosecutor's office, is facing a second-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting Saturday evening of Joseph Dale Harvey Jr., a truck driver who friends said recently bought a home in Lansdowne. Police said Wednesday that Walker's agency-issued gun was used and that an autopsy showed that Harvey suffered three gunshot wounds.

The New Jersey police officer accused of killing a man during an alleged weekend road rage incident was defending his family, his lawyer said Monday. Patrick McAndrew, attorney for Joseph Lamont Walker, 40, said his client had faced an "attack" on the on-ramp to Interstate 97 in Anne Arundel County. Maryland State Police say Walker shot and killed Joseph Harvey Jr., 36, after an altercation on the road. "The second version, the true version, will come out," McAndrew told Annapolis District Court Judge Thomas Pryal at a bail review hearing.

Ocean City police are investigating two weekend brawls on the boardwalk, including one that  resulted in the stabbing of a 22-year-old man. Police said Joseph Tyrice Cromartie, 20, of Clinton, was fighting with another man near Fifth Street and the Boardwalk early Sunday morning when people began gathering to watch. By the time uniformed officers on bicycles arrived, the crowd was very large and behaving in a disorderly manner, police said. When officers attempted to separate the two men who were pushing and yelling at each other, police said Cromartie became combative and assaulted the officers.

Maryland State Police say an officer with the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey has been charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a Lansdowne man after an alleged road rage incident Saturday night in Anne Arundel County. Police say Joseph Walker, 40, of East Ampton, N.J. is being held at the Anne Arundel County Detention Center on a $1 million bond after the shooting, which took place along Interstate 97. Shortly after 8:30 p.m., troopers were called for the report of a shooting along the shoulder of the ramp from northbound Route 3 to I-97.

A city tow-truck driver was knocked 25 feet off the Jones Falls Expressway on Friday and a police officer was injured in a pair of afternoon rush-hour crashes that involved a water rescue of the victim who'd fallen into the storm-swollen stream below, police said. The two victims were still being treated at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center Saturday morning. The incident, which shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 83 for about two hours, occurred near the Pepsi sign, not far from where another accident two years ago knocked a police officer off the northbound side of the highway, severely injuring her. About 6:15 p.m., a Northern District police officer was investigating a single-vehicle SUV crash in the southbound lanes of the JFX, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman.

An on-duty Howard County police officer attempting to make an illegal U-turn in a police vehicle struck another car, injuring two children Saturday, Anne Arundel County police said. Symchay Kon Bendu, a four-year veteran with the Howard County police, was attempting a U-turn onto Route 100 west, near Route 10 south, when the police vehicle struck a 2005 Honda Civic, driven by Jamie Marie Butler, 31, of Brooklyn, police said. The officer slowed down and made an illegal U-turn directly into the path of the Honda, which was traveling in the fast lane of Route 10 south at about 4:15 p.m., police said.

A city tow-truck driver was knocked 25 feet off the Jones Falls Expressway on Friday and a police officer was injured in a pair of afternoon rush-hour crashes that involved a water rescue of the victim who'd fallen into the storm-swollen stream below, police said. The two victims were still being treated at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center Saturday morning. The incident, which shut down the southbound lanes of Interstate 83 for about two hours, occurred near the Pepsi sign, not far from where another accident two years ago knocked a police officer off the northbound side of the highway, severely injuring her. About 6:15 p.m., a Northern District police officer was investigating a single-vehicle SUV crash in the southbound lanes of the JFX, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman.

Two Baltimore police officers arrived at a fellow officer's home to investigate a reported domestic assault. They heard a woman inside calling for help, and when nobody answered the door, they kicked the door in and brought Kendra Diggs out. James Smith, 49, ran upstairs as an officer implored him to come and talk. The other officer stood on the sidewalk next to Diggs, her face bleeding from a small wound. A shot rang out from a second-story window, authorities say. Diggs, shot in the head, hit the ground, and Smith and his fellow officers commenced a six-hour standoff.

The White Marsh man fatally shot by Baltimore County police Wednesday night was known to work on neighbors' cars and bring them big pots of "s'getti. " "I was kind of shocked when all of this went down. He wasn't very big," said Curtis Gardner, a lifelong friend of Arnett Myers. However, Gardner added, "he had this history" with police. Myers, 57, who police said reached for one officer's gun before a second shot him, was found guilty in 2006 of assault and resisting arrest. He was sentenced to eight months' incarceration and two years' probation, online court records show.

A Baltimore police officer accepted cash payments and provided protection for a man she believed to be a drug dealer — a man who was actually working with department investigators and FBI agents to build a criminal case against her, authorities alleged Friday. Ashley Roane, a 25-year-old patrol officer in the Southwestern District, agreed to access law enforcement databases listing informants and other sensitive information for the drug dealer, and provided Social Security numbers to him as part of a scheme to obtain false tax refunds, prosecutors said.