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Police identify victim of shooting in Dundalk A 28-year-old Dundalk man who was fatally shot while sitting in his car late Sunday was identified Monday by Baltimore County police as James Faulcon of the 3400 block of Dunhaven Road. Faulcon was wounded by someone who approached the car on Dunkirk Road near Cornwall Road just before 11 p.m. and fired several shots after Faulcon rolled down the window, police said. Two other people were in the car at the time of the shooting, police said.

Man is shot in head and upper body, dies 2 A man was fatally shot in the head and upper body in West Baltimore shortly after 11 p.m. yesterday, police said. He was shot at Normandy and Edmondson avenues, said police spokesman Agent Donny Moses. No other details were available last night. Melissa Harris I-97 collision kills 1 person, injures 2 3 A man in a Lexus crashed into the rear of a van on Interstate 97 early yesterday, sparking a fire that consumed both vehicles and killed one person, authorities said.

Baltimore police released the names yesterday of a man who was fatally shot Wednesday evening in West Baltimore and of a woman who was found fatally stabbed in a Brooklyn home Thursday. Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman, said that officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 700 block of Brune St., about 8:20 p.m. Wednesday. Officers found Frederick Moore, 27, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was also found to be holding several small plastic bags of suspected crack cocaine in his mouth and an unspecified amount of cash in one of his pockets, Moses said.

ISSUE: A rookie Anne Arundel County police officer accused of photographing himself fondling a teenage girl during a traffic stop is being allowed to return to administrative duty. Officer Joseph F. Mosmiller, 22, who joined the department in May, has been charged with a fourth-degree sex offense, second-degree assault and two other misdemeanors. He turned himself in Monday night and was released on his own recognizance Tuesday. Three other officers were implicated in the Jan. 20 incident in a church parking lot on Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena.

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.

A man in his early 20s was shot yesterday in Baltimore's Remington neighborhood and died later at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, a city police spokesman said. The victim, who has not been identified, was found about 1 a.m. in the 2900 block of Miles Ave., near 29th Street. Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman, said the man had been shot several times. It was the city's 146th homicide this year, compared with 127 the same time last year, police said. Harris said police have no suspects and know of no motive.

A 21-year-old Baltimore man who was shot multiple times Saturday night was pronounced dead not long after the incident at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said yesterday. The victim, Gary Watts, 21, whose last known address was in the 3300 block of St. Ambrose Ave. in Northwest Baltimore, was shot about 10 p.m. as he was walking in the 1300 block of N. Rosedale St. with two other men, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Witnesses told police that multiple shots were fired at Watts by unknown assailants from inside a dark-colored vehicle.

Baltimore police have released the identity of a suspect who died after he was incapacitated with a Taser during an incident in West Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood early Saturday morning. Police said Thomas Campbell, 50, of the 1000 block of McAleer Court was pronounced dead at Bon Secours Hospital shortly after he was subdued with a Taser, a device that delivers a 50,000-volt shock. Officers apprehended Campbell after receiving a report that a man was running amok in the 1000 block of N. Payson St. Police say they have used Tasers 14 times this year, and Campbell is the third fatality.

A man was fatally shot in the head about 8:50 p.m. yesterday at a barbershop in the 1100 block of W. Baltimore St., a police spokesman said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene, said the spokesman, Agent Donny Moses. The motive and number of suspects are unclear, he said.

The body of a woman in her mid-30s was found yesterday evening in her rowhouse in the Putnam Green community near Woodlawn, county police said. An initial account from police - that the woman's throat had been slashed - could not be confirmed last night, but police said neighbors were evacuated from their homes and questioned while police searched the area. The woman's name was being withheld pending notification of family, police said. Her body was discovered in the house in the first block of Heatherton Court at the eastern edge of Diamond Ridge Golf Course about 7 p.m. by another occupant of the house.

A man who had been charged with dousing his 85-year-old grandmother with alcohol and setting her on fire in an argument over money in March is now being charged with first-degree murder, three months after the woman died at a hospital, a Baltimore police spokesman said. Tyron Markit Mason, 29, of the 2800 block of Frederick Ave., had been charged with attempted murder. Ethel Henderson died June 17 in the burn unit of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The attack occurred about 5:20 p.m. on March 8, when police said Mason went to Henderson's home on Poplar Grove Street, demanded money and then set her on fire.

Police identify woman found stabbed near park Baltimore police have identified a woman who was found fatally stabbed early Friday near Clifton Park, and a department spokesman said investigators were questioning "persons of interest" in the case. According to police, Shantel Brown, 31, was found with several stab wounds about 1:15 a.m. near Sinclair Lane and North Chester Street, less than a block from her home. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. A witness reported hearing Brown arguing with the father of her children between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Thursday, said Agent Donny Moses, the police spokesman.

Baltimore homicide detectives don't believe a Johns Hopkins University student had "the intent to kill" when he used a samurai sword to confront an intruder outside his home, a police spokesman said Thursday. Police say John Pontolillo, 20, a chemistry major from New Jersey, killed the man with a single blow early Tuesday. Pontolillo has not been charged in the death of Donald D. Rice, 49, a career criminal who was released from jail just three days before the altercation. Prosecutors will determine whether charges are warranted after consulting with police, a process that could take weeks.

Woman killed in Glen Burnie hit-and-run 2 A 60-year-old woman was killed in what police are calling a hit-and-run in Glen Burnie about 7 p.m. Saturday. The woman was hit at the intersection of Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard and Oak Lane. She was transported to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie, according to an Anne Arundel County fire department spokesman. Police are investigating the case and have no information on the driver. Police did not immediately release the victim's name.

Teenage suspect arrested in fatal stabbing downtown 1 Baltimore police have arrested a 17-year-old suspect who they said stabbed a man in the chest as two groups fought in the 300 block of N. Paca St. early Saturday. The victim, whose identity was unknown, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 2:28 a.m., said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. With the help of CitiWatch cameras, police distributed a description of the attacker and Oscar Skinner, of the 400 block Whitridge Ave. in Charles Village was apprehended moments after the 1:40 a.m. incident.

A pregnant woman and 2-year-old girl were among at least 12 people wounded Sunday night when one or more gunmen opened fire with a semiautomatic weapon at a backyard cookout in East Baltimore, said a city police spokesman. Police said they didn't know of a motive in the shootings, and no arrests were made immediately. Police spokesman Agent Donny Moses said there were no life-threatening injuries in the shootings, which occurred shortly before 9 p.m. in the 2600 block of Ashland Ave. in the Madison-East End community.

A Baltimore police spokesman has been suspended as the department looks into an allegation that he inadvertently sent a nude photo of a woman to a television station. Officer Troy Harris, a nine-year veteran who has served as one of the department's spokesmen since 2002, was suspended Friday by the director of the public affairs section and the police commissioner, the agency confirmed. Officials declined to comment further, saying that the issue is a personnel matter. Sources said Harris was trying to send a mug shot of a criminal suspect to a newsroom e-mail account at WBAL-TV on Thursday night and attached a cell phone photo of a woman that had been saved to the hard drive of his city-issued computer.

About 200 students were rushed out of a city school Thursday morning after a drug suspect fled police and ran into the Southeast Baltimore building, officials said. After more than six hours of searching, police located the man hiding in a cabinet under a sink on the second floor of William Paca Elementary School and took him into custody without incident. Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman, said police kept looking after determining through camera footage that the man had entered the school but had not left.

A man and woman were found shot to death early Wednesday in a house on a quiet Annapolis street that was preparing for a neighborhood July 4th celebration, and police arrested a suspect late Wednesday night. The Associated Press reported that Elbert Gardner, 56, was charged late Wednesday night in the slayings. Police say he lived in the basement of the home where the two victims were found and that he confessed to both killings. The victims were found together shortly before 5:30 a.m. in a small, beige house on Goodrich Road in the Admiral Heights neighborhood, just west of the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium.

Man, 24, fatally shot in West Baltimore A 24-year-old man was fatally shot Tuesday night in West Baltimore, according to a police spokesman. Police were called about 11:35 p.m. to investigate reported gunshots in the 1900 block of Braddish Ave., said Officer Troy Harris, the spokesman. They found Pierre Alford suffering from gunshot wounds to his head, according to Harris. Alford was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 12:12 a.m. Wednesday. Police have made no arrests and have not determined a motive, Harris said.