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THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 221 THE VICTIMS Tyrone Jones, 26, was fatally shot about 11:35 p.m. Saturday in the 1500 block of N. Woodyear St. in West Baltimore. About 4:30 p.m. yesterday, two males, whose names and ages were not available, were shot in the 3400 block of Belair Road in the Belair-Edison neighborhood. They were pronounced dead at Johns Hopkins Hospital. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 193 homicides as of Sept. 16, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides at baltimoresun.

Three men were shot to death in apparently unrelated incidents over the past two days in different parts of Baltimore, and police yesterday identified the victim of an earlier homicide. The killings pushed the city's homicide total this year to 56, compared with 51 for the same period last year. The latest killing occurred about 11 a.m. yesterday, police said, when two men were arguing in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave. in East Baltimore and a third man stepped in and shot one of them.

Two people died after a shooting in Northeast Baltimore yesterday afternoon, and a third man died yesterday after being shot late Saturday. No arrests had been made in the homicides, which brought the number of killings in the city this year to 221 as of yesterday. About 4:30 p.m. yesterday, two males, whose names and ages were not available, were shot in the 3400 block of Belair Road in the Belair-Edison neighborhood and were taken by city Fire Department ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

The two people killed in an accident Sunday night near Sparrows Point Country Club in southeastern Baltimore County were identified yesterday by police as Brandon Scott Fenstermacher, 22, and Jason Thomas Short, 28. Fenstermacher, of the 1600 block of Pumphrey Street in Southeast Baltimore, was driving a 1986 Corvette southeasterly on Wise Avenue about 10 p.m. at high speed, police said. Short, of the 100 block of Bladen Road in Essex, was a passenger, police said. Fenstermacher lost control of the car near Burnham Road and hit a utility pole and fence at the country club.

Two men were shot and killed and another man wounded in unrelated incidents in Baltimore over the weekend, police said yesterday. The first victim was found about 11 p.m. Friday. Northwestern District police were responding to a report of a man shot inside a house in the 2900 block of Chelsea Terrace when they discovered Richard Lawson, 24, of that address, bleeding from at least one gunshot wound, police said. Lawson was taken by ambulance to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly before midnight.

Police are investigating two homicides that occurred early yesterday morning. Police found an unidentified man shot in the 3400 block of Noble St. about 1:10 a.m. He was transported to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. Police have no witnesses and are trying to determine the man's identity, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Police responded to a second shooting about 2:15 a.m. at a home in the 6800 block of Sturbridge Drive. Officers found Pelvin Derrien, 23, suffering from several gunshot wounds to his head and another man shot in the arms and legs, Moses said.

Three men were shot to death, and a woman suffered gunshot wounds in separate incidents in Baltimore on Friday night and yesterday, city police reported. Two of the men were killed in East Baltimore, while the nature of the third death is being investigated. The latest shootings bring Baltimore's homicide total to 105 this year, nine more than at this time last year, city police spokesman Matt Jablow said. An officer on patrol found the body of a 29-year-old man in the 2200 block of Robb St. about 1 a.m. yesterday in the East Baltimore-Midway neighborhood, east of Greenmount Avenue, said city police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe.

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.

A man was fatally shot yesterday three blocks from his West Baltimore home, police said.Derrick Holmes, 29, of the 600 block of N. Pulaski St. was in the 600 block of N. Brice St. about 11: 30 a.m. when he was shot several times by an unknown assailant, police said. Holmes was pronounced dead at the scene by Fire Department medics.Pub Date: 8/18/99

A 21-year-old Westminster man was convicted yesterday of homicide while intoxicated in the death of his 17-month-old son.Robert Andrew Toms agreed to accept the prosecutor's version of what happened.Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. sentenced Toms to five years in prison and suspended all but 18 months.Bryan Andrew Toms was pronounced dead at Carroll County General Hospital on Sept. 6, after a car went out of control on Bloom Road about 3 p.m., police said.Pub Date: 3/23/99

A 31-year-old man was fatally shot Sunday night in Westport, capping a weekend in Baltimore that saw at least 13 people shot in 11 incidents. Police said Kareem Guest of the 2700 block of Maisel Court was found about 10 p.m. suffering from gunshot wounds in the 2400 block of Maisel Court. Guest was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead at 10:36 p.m., said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. Additional details, including a motive or suspect, were not available.

Man charged after truck hits car, bursts into flames Anne Arundel County police charged a driver with leaving the scene of an accident and other traffic violations Sunday after authorities said his pickup truck hit a car and burst into flames in Pasadena. James Arthur Keedy III, 20, of the 100 block of Litton Dale Lane in Pasadena was driving a 1999 Chevrolet Silverado that ran a stop sign shortly before 6:45 p.m. and collided with a Toyota Avalon at Armstrong Drive and Ullman Road, police said.

A 20-year-old Rosedale man was shot in the head while sitting on a bicycle near a bus stop on Northern Parkway in Northeast Baltimore, one of two fatal shootings Friday, a city police spokesman said. Police Agent Donny Moses said the man, Trenton Marshall of the 2200 block of Bluegrass Heights Court, was transported by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Authorities said the area where the shooting occurred, near McClean Boulevard and the Hamilton Shopping Center, was packed with students and others rushing to nearby shops or to a covered bus stop to escape a driving rainstorm.

Mike Jones was a star football player at Overlea High School, an all-county running back with a bright future, everyone said, the kind of guy who inspired teammates to beat the odds. His girlfriend, Shaniqua Tucker, with whom he graduated in June, was equally competitive, a determined midfielder on the school's lacrosse team, the Falcons, who stood up for fellow players when opponents got to talking trash. The two hadn't been dating long, and some of their friends learned of the romance only when the awful news came over the weekend.

A teenager died from a gunshot wound to the back Sunday afternoon after someone "opened fire without warning" in a West Baltimore neighborhood across from a recreation center and Gwynns Falls Park, police said. The 18-year-old male victim and a 47-year-old man, who suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his left leg, were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Police had been called to the 800 block of Allendale St. shortly after 1 p.m.; the teenager was pronounced dead at the hospital less than an hour later.

Woman is killed in collision with tow truck 3 A Lothian woman was killed when her Chevrolet Cavalier was rear-ended by a tow truck and landed in bushes off Bay Front Road in Lothian shortly before 2 p.m. Sunday, Anne Arundel County police said. Nancy Kelley Dowell, 48, of the 200 block of Main St. was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police said Dowell's car was eastbound and stopped to turn left into a driveway in the 800 block of Bay Front Road. Behind it, a Mercury Villager pulled onto the right shoulder and passed her car. A tow truck that had been behind the Villager did not swerve to avoid Dowell's car and struck it, police said.

Maryland State Police were investigating a fatal motorcycle accident that closed lanes on Interstate 97 Tuesday afternoon. No further details were released pending notification of family members. A caller reported the incident about 2:23 p.m., saying a motorcycle had slid under a truck on I-97 between Crain Highway and Quarterfield Road, said Capt. Debbie Bowen, an Anne Arundel Fire Department spokeswoman. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, she said.

Boy attacked and killed, perhaps by other teens, police say 1 A 14-year-old boy was killed Saturday in Crofton after he was apparently attacked by a group of other teens while riding his bicycle, according to the Anne Arundel County police. Officers found the victim, whose name was not released, lying in the roadway on Nantucket Drive in Crofton shortly after 4:15 p.m.. The victim was transported by ambulance to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. According to police, detectives learned the youth had been attacked by a group of five to seven males, all believed to be teen-agers.

A 32-year-old man died early Saturday after being shot in the chest and hip in one of three overnight Baltimore shootings that took place within an hour. The victim who died, Christopher Ricks, was found at 2:20 a.m. in the 2000 block of Kennedy Ave. in East Baltimore and was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in critical condition, according to Detective Donny Moses, a spokesman for the Police Department. Ricks, who lived on the 1200 block of Bonaparte Ave., was pronounced dead about 6 a.m. Less than half an hour later, police received a call about an incident in a parking garage on North Paca Street, just north of Baltimore Street.

Two men killed in separate city incidents Two men were fatally shot over the weekend in separate and apparently unrelated incidents, police said. No arrests had been made in either slaying. The first incident was reported at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the 800 block of N. Milton Ave. in the Milton-Montford neighborhood. Eastern District police responding to shots fired found the victim, later identified as William Jones, 26, a resident of the street, bleeding from at least one bullet wound, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman.