Second Man

A 23-year-old man was shot and killed Friday night while eating crabs in a courtyard in the McCulloh Homes housing project, one of three shootings police were investigating Saturday.  The Sun's Yvonne Wenger reports: Police responded to the call at 8:20 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of Watty Court. Brandon Simms had been eating crabs when an unknown gunman walked up and opened fire without warning, police spokesman Donny Moses said. The suspect fled on foot to an unknown location.

Baltimore prosecutors have dropped all charges against two men accused of holding up a couple at gunpoint this past weekend in South Baltimore. The move comes after authorities confirmed that the man identified as the gun man was eating at Federal Hill restaurant at the time of the attack. Mark Cheshire, a spokesman for the city State's Attorney's Office, said the fact that one suspect's alibi turned out to be true tainted the victim's identification of the second suspect, so he too is being freed.

An unidentified adult male was killed Monday in the 3500 block of Mulberry Street, Baltimore City police said. A police spokeswoman did not know how the victim was killed or his age. Another adult male was taken to an area hospital with serious injuries, she said. The address put the homicide near the Mary E. Rodman Recreation Center.

Baltimore police arrested a 54-year-old man at a home in the 3500 block of Edgewood Road around 9 a.m. Saturday after he refused to talk to investigators following an alleged assault Friday night. Police stood guard outside the home in the Ashburton neighborhood after a woman, who had left the house, reported an assault around 11:30 p.m., according to police spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert. The woman had non-life threatening injuries, Silbert said. The man, whose identity wasn't immediately released pending formal charges, was arrested Saturday morning on assault and weapon charges, Silbert said.

A 23-year-old man was hospitalized in stable condition following a shooting in Aberdeen shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday. At about 7:45 p.m., patrol officers responded to the area of the 600 block of Holly Circle to investigate shots fired, according to a news release from the Aberdeen Police Department. As officers were checking the Holly Drive area, a call was received from a residence in the 400 block of Rogers Street reporting a male there was suffering from a gunshot wound, police said.

The death of a 68-year-old woman, who died of complications from injuries suffered when she was set on fire by her son, has been added to Baltimore's homicide total, while detectives were investigating two weekend shootings.  Police said Audrey Collins died in September from injuries suffered in May when her son, Genesis, set himself on fire and jumped onto her at their home in the 3800 block of Cottage Ave. in Northwest Baltimore. Genesis Collins Jr., who police say poured gasoline on his own head, survived the incident and is awaiting trial after being charged in June.

A video posted to a popular web site yesterday shows a man attack a Baltimore Police officer, springing free another man who was being arrested. Police said the incident occurred New Year's Eve, and identified the attacker as Manuel Imel, a 40-year-old with a last known address in West Baltimore. Spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said, "I don't know if there's any clearer example of what the men and women of this agency go through each and every day to keep the city safe. " "It's time to make this man famous," Guglielmi said, holding up Imel's picture and calling what he is accused of doing "an act of cowardice.

A Virginia man was injured and cited with trespassing after he tried to parachute off the Maryland Public Television radio tower in Crownsville. A second man was also cited for trespassing. According to the Anne Arundel County police department, Robert Scott Morgan, 25, of Fairfax, Va., sustained injuries when his parachute did not fully open before he hit the ground after jumping off the radio tower shortly before 2 a.m. Wednesday. The incident occurred in the 1600 block of Hawkins Road in Crownsville.

A 24-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested and charged with robbing and shooting a cab driver in Remington early Sunday, police said. Police said Maurice Turner, who in 2008 was sentenced to a 30-year prison term, and a second man robbed and shot a 30-year-old cab driver early Sunday after he pulled into a parking lot in the 2700 block of Sisson St. The suspects demanded money, shot the driver in the back and fled with an unknown amount of...