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One man was killed and two were injured in a shootout that involved police in West Baltimore on Monday night, though details on what led to the shooting were still being determined Tuesday morning. Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts spoke near the scene of the shooting, which happened about 10 p.m. in the 2700 block of Edmondson Avenue, a busy commercial corridor. He said police on foot patrol came upon multiple men who were inside a car firing weapons in a "particular direction" and police then opened fire on them.

Baltimore County police say they shot a woman in Pikesville early Saturday after she pulled a handgun on an officer. The woman was in serious condition at a local hospital Saturday evening but expected to survive, police said. According to a news release, the officer was called to the 3100 block of North Brook Road before 2 a.m. to investigate a report of a suspicious person. He saw a woman throw a large rock at a house, officials said, breaking a window. The woman allegedly drew a handgun, and police said the officer repeatedly ordered her to drop, then shot her multiple times in the upper body.

A Dundalk man has been charged with killing two women and trying to kill two others in a series of attacks in Southeast Baltimore, police officials said yesterday. Police had long suspected the killings and assaults were committed by one man. But only recently were they able to link John P. Garcia, 55, a forklift operator and divorced father of several children, to the crimes with the help of DNA evidence, detectives said. "DNA is probably our whole case," said Sgt. Steven Krause of the city police homicide unit.

A31-year-old Baltimore Police officer was charged Friday with pimping out his wife after officers from a human trafficking task force found him outside a hotel room where the woman had agreed to have sex for cash with an undercover officer. The child recovery task force was working a proactive investigation into human trafficking when they came across a "young-looking female" advertised as an escort on a website, police said. Officers arranged to meet the female at a hotel near BWI airport, court records show.

A long-sought suspect in December's drug-related slaying of an Arnold high school senior was arrested Wednesday in New York City.Annapolis police have charged Eddie Rivers Jr., 23, of Brooklyn, with first-degree murder. He is being held in the Brooklyn Detention Center on weapons charges and is awaiting extradition.Police say the man was arrested using an alias, and a comparison of his fingerprints led police to positively identify him.Annapolis police spokesman Officer Dermott Hickey said Rivers is believed tobe the trigger man in the slaying of Darryll Downs, 18, of the 300 block of Ternwing Drive.

The owners and operators of Club 410 in Northeast Baltimore urged police Thursday not to shut down their Northeast Baltimore club, saying that they have strict security procedures and that violence outside or sometimes blocks away was out of their control. The club, in the 4500 block of Belair Road, was the subject of the most recent "padlock hearing" by the Baltimore Police Department, which has been seeking to crack down on establishments it believes harbor crime and violence. Manager Tomeka Harris, a law student who represented the club at a hearing at police headquarters, said that of five incidents cited by police, only one took place inside the club, and it was handled by security.

Portions of Interstate 81 in Harrisburg, Pa., are expected to remain closed for several more days following a massive fuel tanker crash and explosion Thursday morning that damaged the highway and bridge, Pennsylvania transportation officials said. Northbound lanes at Exit 59 (Route 581) are blocked and the southbound interstate remains closed at Exit 70, the I-83 split. A tanker loaded with 7,500 gallons of diesel fuel flipped and exploded in a fireball that burned for 45 minutes and was so intense that it melted guardrails and the asphalt pavement, state police said.

The search for the killers of Baltimore millionaire J. Schuyler "Sky" Alland was at a standstill in the summer of 1992. Whoever executed the businessman for his $80,000 black BMW apparently had gotten away with murder -- not to mention the car.U.S. Park Police Detective Timothy M. Squires was handling the first murder of his career, but he made a bold promise."He promised that he would find these guys," said Dorothy Alland Leighton, Mr. Alland's mother. "He said, 'Even when I retire, I'll continue to work on this case with no pay until I find who killed your son.' "His promise was fulfilled Wednesday when federal prosecutors wrapped up an intricate nationwide investigation into the February 1992 murder with the conviction of the killer, John Graham Bridges, 30, of Norfolk, Va. A co-defendant, Robert Patrick Gray, 25, of Cockeysville pleaded guilty Nov. 5."

On Tuesday, we told you about Jason Thomas Scott, a 28-year-old who faced at least 97 years for 11 felonies that included up to 50 burglaries and nine home invasions in Prince George's County. In one case, prosecutors said he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl. On Wednesday, a federal judge in Greenbelt decided 97 years wasn't enough, and put him away for an even century. On top of that, Scott still faces a trial in the deaths of a mother and daughter who were found in a burning car in Largo in 2009.

Baltimore police are investigating the shooting death of a man in East Baltimore early Thursday. Responding to a shooting in the 600 block of Cokesbury Ave. in the East Baltimore Midway neighborhood at 12:39 a.m., police said they found a man with gunshot wounds. Paramedics took him to an area hospital but he was pronounced dead Thursday morning, police said. Police have no suspects or motives and did not release the victim's identity. The murder was Baltimore's 71 s t homicide this year, following the shooting death of Dominic Hicks, 19, whose identity police released on Thursday.