Police Spokeswoman

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.

Annapolis : Naval Academy Doctor charged in sex-tape case A Navy doctor who regularly acted as a chaperon for the Naval Academy men's gymnastics team has been charged with making secret tapes of students having sex in his Annapolis-area home, according to a published report. Cmdr. Kevin Ronan faces charges that include conduct unbecoming an officer for "surreptitious videotaping" of "intimate activities" without the subjects' consent, The Washington Post reported, quoting a spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, where Ronan had been stationed.

Four men were shot - one of them fatally - at a basketball court Saturday morning in Southeast Baltimore. Damon Coleman, 35, of the 2700 block of E. Hoffman St. was shot in the chin area and was later pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a Baltimore police spokeswoman. The three other men suffered minor injuries, police said. One was shot in the lower back, another in the shoulder and both legs and the third was shot in the mouth. Police found three of the victims, including the man who died, about 6 a.m. lying on the east side of the basketball court in a public housing project in the 1400 block of May Court, Monroe said.

A man was shot to death at the Sugar Hill Tavern, a tiny liquor store in the 2300 block of Druid Hill Ave., about 5 p.m. yesterday, police said. A police spokeswoman said last night that the victim, who appeared to be in his 30s, had not been identified. He was shot in the head and was not robbed, the spokeswoman said, leading police to suspect that the victim was targeted by the shooter. Nobody at the store was willing to comment last night, and an unruly customer prevented a reporter from talking to employees.

Plunge at park leaves cyclist seriously hurt An Annapolis man who was biking on a walking trail yesterday morning in Patapsco Valley State Park missed a curve and plunged about 40 feet over a cliff, said a spokeswoman for the Maryland Natural Resources Police. Christopher Campbell, 40, was flown by state police helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed in critical condition yesterday afternoon. Campbell was the second person in a line of three bicyclists on the trail about 10 a.m. The first cleared the curve before Campbell fell, said Kara Turner, the police spokeswoman.

The staffing shortage that has left Baltimore police struggling to fill patrol cars has forced one commander to take the unprecedented step of closing a police station to the public in the early morning.Over the past several weeks, visitors to the Northeastern District on Argonne Drive between midnight and 7 a.m. were greeted with a sign on the public entrance advising them to call 911 in an emergency. A pay phone is next to the door.People trying to call the district's main number between those hours didn't fare much better.

An unidentified man died early yesterday when he and two other men were shot multiple times in the 400 block of Bloom St. near Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore police reported.The man was shot in the upper torso and died at the scene shortly after 2 a.m., said Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman. The other two men were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where they were being treated for gunshot wounds yesterday, police said.Ricky Miller, 31, of the 1700 block of Abbotston St., was in critical condition, and Kevin Dorsey, 33, of the 1500 block of McKean Ave., was in stable condition yesterday, police said.

A 23-year-old East Baltimore man, who police said was upset with his mother, briefly took her hostage and then refused to come out of his rowhouse, prompting police to block off several streets as they negotiated his surrender yesterday.Police said Damien White surrendered at 10: 15 a.m., about two hours after the incident began. He was charged with first- and second-degree assault and was being held in the Central Booking and Intake Center pending a bail review. He lived with his 49-year-old mother in the 1700 block of E. Oliver St.Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman, said the incident occurred about 8 a.m. after an argument between White and his mother, Rosalyn West.

In Baltimore CityDeportation hearing in Canada delayed for man sought in killingA fugitive from Baltimore who is seeking political asylum in Canada delayed his deportation hearing yesterday so he can get a new lawyer, said Haven H. Kodeck, deputy city state's attorney.David A. Gatton, 21, of Brooklyn is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting Feb. 18 of Anthony Henson, 20, during an argument. Gatton surrendered to police in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 25. Noting Maryland's death penalty and crowded prisons, he has requested asylum in Canada as a United Nations political refugee.

A 2-year-old girl was struck and killed by a Mass Transit Administration bus early yesterday in Northwest Baltimore, and police said the driver drove away, apparently unaware of the accident.Deandre Warren Moore, of the 1900 block of Harlem Ave. in West Baltimore, was pronounced dead at Liberty Medical Center. Police said the bus' rear wheels ran over the child after she and her mother got off the bus.The bus driver was identified as Karen Majors, 39. MTA spokesman Anthony Brown said his agency is reviewing her driving record and will administer a drug test, as required by state law. Police are investigating the accident.

Two men were killed and another was critically injured in three separate shootings over an eight-hour span in Baltimore, police said Monday. About 10:25 p.m. Sunday, an officer responded to a call for a shooting in the 600 block of Cherry Hill Road, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. Police found Charles Gregory Pratt, 18, of the 8700 block of Church Lane in Randallstown lying in the parking lot of the Cherry Hill shopping center. He had been shot several times, according to Monroe.

Balto. Co. police seeking convicted child rapist Baltimore County police said Tuesday they continue to seek information on the whereabouts of a man convicted in October of sexual child abuse and second-degree rape of a juvenile. Police have issued a warrant for Charles A. Kingery, 61, formerly of the Parkville area. Kingery did not appear for his sentencing hearing in February, police said. The crimes he was convicted of were committed between 1973 and 1975, according to court records.

Two men shot; police exploring possible link Two shootings were reported in the city's Northeastern District Monday night, according to a Baltimore police spokeswoman. In the first incident, a man was shot in the chest and right buttock about 10:50 p.m. in the 7200 block of McClean Blvd., said Officer Nicole Monroe, a Baltimore police spokeswoman. The victim was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital. The second victim walked into Good Samaritan Hospital shortly after 11 p.m. after he was shot in the chest and arm at Moravia and Belair roads, Monroe said.

Man fatally shot in S. Baltimore A man was found fatally shot near railroad tracks in the 600 block of W. Patapsco Ave. early yesterday, Baltimore police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said. The man, whose identity was unknown, was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been shot multiple times. A passer-by found the man on a footpath that leads from West Patapsco Avenue to the Cherry Hill neighborhood, Monroe said. The Baltimore Police Department's homicide division is investigating. Andrea K. Walker Man, 20, fatally shot in Westport house Baltimore police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 20-year-old man Saturday night, Baltimore police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said.

Woman beaten, fatally shot outside nightclub A 25-year-old woman was fatally wounded and two other women were injured early yesterday in a shooting attack outside a nightclub in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, city police said. Police are looking for the woman who fired the gun. Sctario Tia Edwards of Baltimore was beaten with a pipe and shot several times about 2 a.m. outside Coconuts Cafe in the 300 block of W. Madison St., according to Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman.

Police say boy, 14, fatally shot during argument Police reported they were checking several leads in the fatal shooting yesterday afternoon of a 14-year-old boy in the city's Parklane community, adding that his death appeared to be the result of an argument he had with another boy over a girl. The victim was identified as Juan Johnson of the nearby 4600 block of Reisterstown Road. Johnson was the city's fifth homicide victim under the age of 18 this year. Shortly before 1:30 p.m., Northwestern District police responding to a report of a person shot in the 4400 block of Pall Mall Road near Wylie Avenue found Juan lying in the street, bleeding from at least one gunshot wound to the head, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman.

Man's body found floating near Annapolis Yacht Club An autopsy was to be performed today on the body of an unidentified man found floating yesterday in the Annapolis harbor, said an Annapolis police spokeswoman. Shortly before 11 a.m., police received a call that the fully clothed body of a man was floating near the Annapolis Yacht Club, said police spokeswoman Jane Schlegel. An initial report did not indicate any signs of foul play, police said. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Baltimore.

The cops got a 3 percent raise. The mayor got a 2 1/2 percent raise. Seems fair. I don't mind an extra $3,700 in Sheila Dixon's pocket, or the raises for the comptroller, the City Council president and other lawmakers. And I won't even discuss how they hid their vote using arcane job classification codes. What is astounding is that they gave themselves raises while ordering millions of dollars in budget cuts from the Police Department, including slashing overtime, even as a spate of killings made November the deadliest month of the year.

The man who was involved in two crashes in less than two hours last week in Harford County, including one that killed a woman and her son, might have been arrested after the earlier collision. Troopers acted properly in issuing summonses to Christopher H. Lentz after he allegedly failed to stop at the scene of the first accident, a state police spokeswoman said yesterday. "They took appropriate action based on their observations at the scene," said Elena Russo, a state police spokeswoman.

A man in a car shot yesterday afternoon on a Southwest city street died hours later at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said. About 3 p.m., police responding to a shooting at Patapsco Avenue and Savoy Street in the Lakeland community found the man seated in a Dodge sedan and suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. He died shortly before 6 p.m. at the hospital, she said. He was identified as Vernon Paige, 21, of the 3100 block of Savoy, Monroe said.