Robbery

City police have charged a 22-year-old man in a double shooting over the weekend in Southwest Baltimore that killed a 42-year-old woman.  Gerald Gaffney, of the 3500 block of W. Garrison Ave., is charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and armed robbery counts, court records show. A motive was not immediately disclosed by police, though the charges indicate a robbery. Police said officers were called to the 2700 block of Kinsey Ave. at about 6:45 p.m. for a report of a shooting, and found a 33-year-old man suffering gunshot wounds to his arms.

A 23-year-old man and his 4-year-old daughter were shot while sitting in a vehicle in Rosedale on Monday night, according to Baltimore County Police. Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and were driven to Franklin Square Hospital by a family member, police said. The hospital notified police about 8:17 p.m., and officers were told the shooting occurred near the intersection of Old Home and Meadow roads, police said. A third person, the driver, was also in the vehicle at the time of the shooting but was unharmed, police said.

Police are looking for a man who robbed an Edgewood 7-Eleven early Saturday. The suspect, a white man with light brown hair approximately 6 feet tall and 250 pounds, entered the store around 4:45 a.m. and displayed a knife to the clerk before taking an undisclosed amount of money from the cash register and an assortment of cigarettes, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. He left the convenience store in the 1000 block of Gateway Road on foot. The suspect had facial hair and wore a light gray, zippered hoodie, a black or blue baseball cap with a flat brim, blue jeans and black sneakers, police said.

UPDATE March 29: On Friday, the Harford County Sheriff's office released surveillance footage from a March 21 armed robbery at a Bel Air Royal Farms store. The video shows the suspect entering the store, collecting an undisclosed amount of cash from the counter, and then leaving the store. The Sheriff's office suspects this incident is connected to two other armed robberies, one the day before, a third the following day. Original report from March 23 is below: A third Harford County armed robbery in three days Friday night has investigators for the Harford County Sheriff's Office considering the likelihood all three are related.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Baltimore Street and Georgia Avenue, 3:30 p.m., March 24. Purse, cash and medicine stolen from car. Hammonds Ferry Road, 3200 block, between 11 p.m. March 20, and 7 a.m. March 21. Car batteries stolen after hole cut in fence.

A bandana wearing man robbed a Havre de Grace sex shop at gunpoint Friday evening, the Harford County Sheriff's office said. Authorities also said they are investigating whether the same man might be behind armed robberies at a Churchville Subway on Wednesday and a nearby Royal Farms in the early hours of Thursday morning. In the Friday robbery, an employee of Jacki's Intimate Boutique told deputies that a man entered the store wearing a black bandana covering the lower portion of his face, showed a handgun and demanded money.

Bruce Reynolds nearly got away with it — and for a time he did. As the brains behind England's 1963 "Great Train Robbery," Reynolds netted some $7 million in small bills for himself and his confederates. Robbing stagecoaches and, later, trains became a fashionable and lucrative pursuit for such 19th-century outlaws as Jesse James, Bill Miner, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and it once had been part of life in the rugged Old West, where travelers boarding steam cars did so at their own risk.

Police said a man was wounded in an attempted robbery Monday night while, in another incident early Tuesday, a resident fired at intruders and injured one of them. Responding to a report of a shooting at West North Avenue and Bloomingdale Road, police found a 19-year-old man with gunshot wounds in his shoulder and back at about 11:30 p.m. He told police he had been walking in the 2100 block of Garrison Ave. in the Mount Holly neighborhood when a man approached him and told him he was being robbed.

An investigation into an armed robbery in Dundalk on Monday morning briefly alarmed parents of children who attend a nearby school, resulting in an officer responding to the school to brief the principal on what happened. Sister Irene Pryle, principal of Our Lady of Hope St. Luke School, said the school was not affected and did not go into lockdown, as was rumored on social media. Officers had responded to an alley between Kavanagh and Kentley roads off Church Road shortly after 7:30 a.m. for a report of an armed robbery, police said.

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Police Station at 410-887-0872. Virginia Avenue, 2500 block, between 2:30 p.m., March 7, and 11 a.m. March 8. Cash stolen after front door forced open. Lakebrook Circle, 2900 block, between 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., March 7. Laptop stolen from unlocked residence.