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Baltimore City police are investigating three shootings that occurred in the city overnight, none of them fatal. Baltimore City police are investigating three shootings that occurred overnight, none of them fatal. The first happened Saturday evening in the 2000 block of Eutaw Place, where an adult male was shot in the torso. Later, a juvenile was shot in the leg near W. Patapsco Ave. and Hollins Ferry Road in South Baltimore. At 4 a.m. Sunday, an adult man walked into the emergency room at Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound in his left hand.

I think people have the right to record in public, especially when it has to do with the police. There are often times police use excessive force. I feel police hide behind their badge and gun thinking that they have the right to harm people. Second of all, I think when it comes to trying to calm a crowd full of people down that someone should be recording. You never know what you're going to really see on tape because the police don't want you to see everything. It's like they are hiding something.

Police foot patrols would be very beneficial in improving police-community relations in Baltimore. This is a plea for our incoming mayor, Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake, to consider this positive alternative for utilizing those in uniform who patrol our city. Many citizens perceive police men and women in patrol cars as being distant, perhaps even aloof. There is no better way for Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III to utilize his officers than to saturate the city neighborhoods with foot patrols.

Southwest Baltimore district detectives are investigating a fatal shooting that killed a 19-year-old man late Wednesday. Police were summoned to the 3800 block of Old Frederick Road in the Saint Joseph's area at about 11 p.m. where they found the man with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body. He was transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center where he died just before midnight, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. Police would not release his name until next of kin are notified.

A woman who was taken into custody after Tuesday's shooting inside a room at the city-owned Hilton Convention Center hotel has now been charged. Police identified the suspect as Sharolyn L. Yarbrough, 34, who works at Sly's Bail Bonds on Woodlea Avenue in Baltimore. The charge is attempted murder. Police have said the shooting in the 4th floor room appears to have been the result of a domestic incident. The victim suffered superficial injuries as a result of a wound from a .40 caliber bullet.

It is very brave of John Schissler to try and rid of the bad elements who are dealing drugs in his neighborhood. Baltimore City police try to clean up and keep the neighborhood free from drugs, but it's never going to happen! Drug dealing is a multi-million dollar industry. You knock one dealer down and three more take his place bringing more drugs, alcohol and prostitutes in our city. I understand fully how Mr. Schissler feels. I lived in the Patterson Park area a few years back.

Baltimore City detectives were investigating three apparently unrelated overnight shootings, according to a spokesman. All of the victims are male and none of their injuries were fatal, police said. The first shooting occurred around 10 p.m. Friday in Cherry Hill at the 2900 block of Carver Road, police said. Officers responded to call and found a 35 year-old male victim who had been shot in the back. He told police that he was walking and "heard a small pop," according to police.

Baltimore police are investigating a non-fatal shooting Thursday night in the West Arlington neighborhood, officials said. A 20-year-old male was shot at 10:47 p.m. in the 5400 block of Wabash Ave. police said. ywenger@baltsun.com Twitter.com/yvonnewenger

A man wearing a bandana over his face robbed an Edgewater gas station at knifepoint early Sunday morning, Anne Arundel police said. The man entered Xtra Mart Fuel in the 3000 block of Solomons Island Road, pulled a knife and demanded the clerk hand over money, police said. When the clerk could not give him any money, the suspect fled in a vehicle, according to police. Several police units searched the area but were unable to find the man, whom police described as in his early 20s, with a thin build and wearing a dark-colored or maroon hooded jacket.

City police are investigating an East Baltimore shooting Thursday night that sent one man to the hospital with chest wounds. The shooting occurred in the 1600 block of N. Milton Ave. about 7:30 p.m., said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. One man was shot in the chest and taken to area hospital, Monroe said. No additional details were available. jkanderson@baltsun.com