Robbery Attempt

A 23-year-old man was shot multiple times during a robbery attempt in northwest Baltimore Friday night, according to a city police spokesman. The man was in a restaurant on Park Heights Avenue when he was approached by two people who demanded to be driven to an ATM in a robbery attempt, said the spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi. He was shot multiple times in the 5100 Litchfield Avenue, Guglielmi said. He was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. jkanderson@baltsun.

We would like to appreciate the service that was provided by the Laurel Police Dept. on Saturday, May 4, when the following incident happened at Main Street Dental. We received a call from the alarm people on Saturday evening informing us that out dental office alarm had gone off. We called our neighbor who also heard some noise in the basement of the dental office. The police were notified and they came right away. It was a suspected robbery. The police came and surrounded the building in view of catching the suspected robber.

We would like to appreciate the service that was provided by the Laurel Police Dept. on Saturday, May 4, when the following incident happened at Main Street Dental. We received a call from the alarm people on Saturday evening informing us that out dental office alarm had gone off. We called our neighbor who also heard some noise in the basement of the dental office. The police were notified and they came right away. It was a suspected robbery. The police came and surrounded the building in view of catching the suspected robber.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled that a jury will be able to hear the taped confession of a teenage defendant in a murder case, rejecting his lawyers' claim that the police had coerced the statement from him. Markell Shelton Jones and his mother, Lakisha Jones, testified Monday that they had been influenced by police, an argument Robert Linthicum, Jones' attorney, made again Tuesday. "The whole thing basically reeks of coercion," he said. But Judge M. Brooke Murdock said police had done nothing improper in the way they conducted the interviews and said she did not find the defendant's mother credible.

A pizza delivery driver fought off five would-be robbers with a metal pipe Friday in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said. One of the suspects assaulted the 24-year-old driver around 7:30 p.m. when he exited his vehicle to make the delivery. Five suspects approached the driver and tried to rob him. One man assaulted the victim who fought off the suspects using a metal pipe he had with him. The suspects didn't get anything from the Pizza Hut driver, police said. Several officers including a K-9 and aviation unit were called in to search the area.

A Southwest Baltimore man remained in critical condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore yesterday after he was shot Tuesday night by an off-duty Baltimore police officer during a robbery attempt at an ATM outside a bank in Abingdon, Harford County, authorities said.The suspect was identified by state police as Jermaine D. Gray, 23, a resident of the Woodington Garden Apartments in the 200 block of Diener Place.The officer, George W. Boston III, 47, was not injured. He was placed on administrative duty yesterday and was expected to return to his normal duties today with the city's tactical squad, Sam Ringgold, a city police spokesman, said yesterday.

A Laurel hotel clerk foiled a robbery attempt Tuesday when he ran from a gunman and locked himself in a rear office, county police said.A man with a silver handgun walked into the Laurel East Hotel, in the 3400 block of Fort Meade Road, shortly after 8 p.m. and demanded money from a clerk, police said.The clerk, whom police did not identify, went to a rear office, locked himself inside and waited about five minutes. When he left the office, the gunman was gone.No money or property was taken from the hotel, police said.

An Annapolis man thwarted a robbery attempt Friday at the Arnold house he was watching by wrestling with one of two gunmen who had broken in, county police said yesterday.Christopher J. Duncin, 27, of Annapolis and Carrie M. Bishop, 23, of Arnold were watching a home in the 1700 block of Meadow Hill Drive in Arnold about 9: 30 p.m. when two men walked through an open garage door, made their way to the living room and held the couple at gunpoint, police said.The gunmen asked whether anyone else was in the house, and Bishop told them three small children were upstairs.

A Northwest Baltimore store owner shot and killed a man who barged into his appliance store and held what turned out to be a toy gun at an employee's head in an apparent robbery attempt yesterday afternoon, police said. Store owner Daryl Gamerman shot the unidentified man about 2 p.m. after the intruder pointed a gun at him and mumbled he wanted a microwave oven, said Agent Ragina Cooper, a Baltimore Police Department spokeswoman. The man stormed into Target Appliance Co. in the 6300 block of Reisterstown Road, and knocked an elderly male store employee to the floor.

A man tried to rob an Elkridge furniture store Wednesday evening but fled when an employee showed him there was no money in the store's safe, Howard County police said.No one was injured in the robbery attempt.Police said a man posing as a customer walked into the Bedroom Outlet in the 7500 block of U.S. 1 at 5: 30 p.m. and asked an employee about buying furniture. After the employee answered him, the man pulled a Glock 9 mm handgun and demanded money from the store safe, police said.The employee led the man to the safe, but no money was inside.

The robber of the Benson post office on Connolly Road Saturday is believed to be the same man who robbed that post office in December 2012, police investigators say.. An attempted robbery that also occurred Saturday, at the Sovereign Bank branch just south of Bel Air, is not believed to be related to the post office crime, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The bank robbery is, however, likely to be connected to two earlier robberies at the same Sovereign Bank branch.

An armed man in camoflauge jumped the counter of a post office in Fallston and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash on Saturday morning, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. The armed robbery, which occurred at the Benson post office about 11:30 a.m., came just hours after an attempted armed robbery of a bank about five miles away in southern Bel Air, according to the sheriff's office. At the post office in the 100 block of Connolly Road, a man wearing camoflauge and holding a handgun entered, announced a robbery and then jumped over a counter before taking the cash and fleeing on foot toward the 1800 block of Harford Road, the sheriff's office said.

A man who was shot about 6 p.m. Wednesday in the 4600 block of Laurel Avenue in Northwest Baltimore's Cylburn neighborhood later died at a hospital. The shooting took place blocks from where a man holding a gun was shot by police Tuesday night and also close to where another man was shot in the face and injured Monday night. This week, police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said officials had pinpointed the area where the man was shot as a concern because of recent violence. In another incident Wednesday, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the foot about 8 p.m. near the corner of Gay and Fayette streets, very close to Baltimore police headquarters downtown.

Early on an October morning, serial stickup man Evan Foreman and his partner got to work just minutes before the two check-cashing store employees in Baltimore's Old Goucher neighborhood. The two robbers waited by the door; then Foreman drew a gun and forced a woman to let them in as she opened up for the day. They wouldn't hurt her, Foreman told her, "as long as you don't do anything stupid. " With the store's safe opened and more than $21,000 in hand, the men fled in a black Pontiac Grand Am. The attack on Gold's Check Cashing was one in a string of commercial robberies by Foreman — a campaign of "urban terrorism" as a federal judge described it. Federal prosecutors say he started out robbing drug dealers but turned to easier prey after he severely beat one of his targets with a shotgun.

A pizza delivery driver fought off five would-be robbers with a metal pipe Friday in Glen Burnie, Anne Arundel County police said. One of the suspects assaulted the 24-year-old driver around 7:30 p.m. when he exited his vehicle to make the delivery. Five suspects approached the driver and tried to rob him. One man assaulted the victim who fought off the suspects using a metal pipe he had with him. The suspects didn't get anything from the Pizza Hut driver, police said. Several officers including a K-9 and aviation unit were called in to search the area.

A gunman shot a convenience store clerk during a robbery attempt early Monday in Halethorpe, Baltimore County police said. Officers responding to a report of a shooting at the Speedy Mart in the 3800 block of Hollins Ferry Road at 1:40 a.m. found the clerk with gunshot wounds to the upper and lower body, police said. He was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated and later released, police said. The gunman entered the store, displayed a handgun and demanded money from the clerk, police said.

Baltimore police are investigating a pair of unrelated shootings that left two men injured Sunday. A 28-year-old man was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center around 12:40 p.m. after being found suffering from gunshot wounds near the intersection of Carey and Laurens streets in West Baltimore, police said. Police believe that he might have been the victim of a robbery attempt. Shortly after 6 p.m., a 21-year-old man was shot in the 500 block of S. Pulaski St. in Southwest Baltimore, police said.

A gas station employee was shot multiple times in the upper body during an apparent attempted robbery early Friday just outside the city line, according to Baltimore County police. Officers were called to the Carroll Fuel gas station at 5217 Baltimore National Pike about 6:10 a.m. and found the male victim. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening, police spokeswoman Detective Cathy Batton said. Police believe the man was shot during a robbery attempt and were at the gas station investigating, Batton said.