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.

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 Columbia man at a drive-through automated teller machine drove off after another man banged on his car window and demanded cash Saturday night, Howard County police said.The would-be robber did not show a weapon during the robbery attempt in the 8800 block of Centre Park Drive in Columbia's Oakland Mills village, police said.Police said the would-be robber parked his car in a lane next to the Columbia man's car and waited until he stopped his vehicle to withdraw cash at 7:30 p.m.After the man made a withdrawal, the would-be robber rushed to his passenger side window and ordered the man to give him cash.

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.

A 72-year-old woman was shot to death yesterday in a brazen midafternoon robbery attempt outside a Waverly bank, where the woman had just withdrawn a large sum of cash to pay employees of her family-run cleaning business.Pearl Elizabeth Moffett struggled with the gunman in the parking lot before he shot her in the upper body about 1:30 p.m., police said.She died moments later on the front seat of her 1987 Chevrolet Blazer.The unidentified man fled and apparently didn't take any of the money Mrs. Moffett had withdrawn from the NationsBank branch in the 3300 block of Greenmount Ave., about five blocks from Memorial Stadium.

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 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.

County police are investigating a holdup and a robbery attempt that occurred within less than four hours a short distance apart over the weekend on Laurel Fort Meade Road. The robbery occurred about 11 p.m. Friday when two men with bandanas over their faces entered an unlocked back door of Pizza Pride in the 3400 block of Laurel Fort Meade Road (Route 198), ordered two employees at gunpoint to lie on the floor and told the manager to open the cash register, police said. The robbers fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.

A man police believe tried to rob a Dunkin' Donuts on Laurel Fort Meade Road Tuesday morning is in serious condition at a Maryland hospital after the store's owner shot him in the lower body, Anne Arundel police said. The robbery attempt occurred at about 3:30 a.m., said Lt. Glenn Shanahan, a police spokesman. A man described as the owner of the Dunkin' Donuts shot the man, who was taken to Prince George's County trauma hospital and is in serious condition, Shanahan said. Shanahan said the man they believe tried to rob the store has not been charged.

A Baltimore teen was arrested after a woman spotted him at a Brooklyn bus stop and told police he had robbed and sexually assaulted her two months earlier, according to court records. Police were called to the corner of Fifth Street and East Patapsco Avenue about 9 p.m. Saturday, where a woman told police that a man standing at a bus stop was the same man who had robbed her of $200 and attempted to rape her June 26, records show. "You don't remember me," she said, yelling and pointing at the man, according to charging documents.

A 14-year-old girl was being charged Tuesday night with first-degree murder for a shooting in East Baltimore earlier this month, a spokesman said. Arteesha Holt was processed at the Central Booking Intake Center late Tuesday and would be charged in the shooting death of Jose Gonzales, Agent Donny Moses, a department spokesman, said late Tuesday. Police said the incident was an attempted robbery and may have been part of a gang initiation. Holt tried to rob two men Aug. 13 in the 100 block of N. Linwood Ave, about a block north of Patterson Park, police said.

The two Honduran men sitting on the front steps of a Southeast Baltimore rowhouse couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of a 14-year-old girl clutching a silver revolver and demanding money. But Arteesha Holt wasn't like most girls her age. A tomboy who liked playing football and basketball, relatives say she also had an explosive temper and was prone to uncontrollable outbursts. Once, she destroyed her family's home, slinging an ashtray across the room, tearing pictures from the wall and kicking out a heating vent, all because her infant nephew stepped on a bowl of strawberries.

A 48-year-old store clerk was shot and killed early Monday during an apparent robbery attempt at a 7-Eleven store in Glen Burnie, police reported. The victim, Youssef Kamal Erian Attia, was gunned down as he tried to flee from three men who had entered the store and announced a robbery, according to an account issued by the Anne Arundel County Police Department. Officers were summoned to the convenience store on the 7700 block of Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard at about 3:30 a.m. in response to a report of a sick or injured person.

A Maryland appeals court has overturned three first-degree murder convictions. The Court of Special Appeals ruled Thursday that Baltimore County police violated Lee Coleman-Fuller's right to counsel while investigating the 2006 slaying of Travis Taylor in Woodlawn. The court also overturned Jeffrey Allen's Charles County conviction in the 2001 stabbing of John Butler in La Plata. The court said jurors were improperly told of Allen's prior armed-robbery conviction. On Wednesday, the court ruled that a Washington County judge improperly allowed testimony about statements Marshall Adams made to police without his attorney present.

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.

Standing outside the entrance to The Sports Authority at White Marsh Mall, Nick Greif recalled the stabbing that occurred here Thursday night. "Basically, he got stabbed twice. A bunch of people came up. The guy who stabbed him tried to ride away on a dirt bike," said the 21-year-old Kingsville resident and server at Buffalo Wild Wings, which is adjacent to the sporting goods store. The victim cried, "I'm leaking!" and was bleeding from the back of his thigh, Greif said, but still shouted about getting back at his attackers.