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A security guard working an overnight shift at the Bank of America building in downtown Baltimore was shot and killed early Saturday when police said he tried to quell a dispute over a woman that erupted between a friend and several other men who had just left a nightclub. Police identified the guard as James Ball, 38. He had worked for Wackenhut, a private security company hired by the building's owners. He died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center shortly after being shot twice, at least once in the chest, according to police.

UPDATED: Listen to one of the 911 calls above This morning Gov. Martin O'Malley and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake congratulated the two city social services who helped subdue a mother and save her baby during an attack last week. . The mayor and governor walked into the cafeteria at the city Department of Social Services' office together, taking a roomful of hundreds of workers by surprise. They gave commendations to William Purnell Short III, who threw a chair at Kenisha Thomas and subdued her, and Dana Hayes, the social worker who was seeing Thomas at the time of the attack.

A 24-year-old man has been arrested in the killing of a Bank of America security guard in downtown Baltimore last month, police said. Eric Rose, whose last known address was in the 1000 block of 33rd St., was taken into custody Tuesday by members of the Warrant Apprehension Task Force on a warrant charging him with murder, police said. Police said the victim, James E. Ball Sr., 38, tried to quell a dispute over a woman between two men who had left a nightclub. Relatives and friends of the victim first learned of the arrest from a reporter.

North Calvert Street 2700 block, between 6:52 and 11 a.m. April 3. Car boot stolen from 2002 Mercury with California tags 5VCG075. Falls Road 5900 block, between 8 p.m. April 4 and 3 p.m. April 5. White and black business sign for Acupuncture For All stolen from front of business while it was closed. 3000 block, between 3:30 p.m. April 4 and 5 a.m. April 5. Impact drill set, two chip hammers, 14-inch chop saw stolen from Barco Enterprise construction site office.

Police have charged a 41-year-old Baltimore man with attacking a Columbia security guard with a box cutter. Terrell Webb, of the 1500 block of N. Decker Ave., was arrested Friday night in Baltimore after a patrol officer observed him behaving suspiciously, Howard County police spokeswoman Elizabeth Schroen said. A background check revealed an open warrant from the Feb. 27 incident at the Mall in Columbia. Webb faces charges of first- and second-degree assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

A 20-year-old robbery suspect was in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder early Sunday, Baltimore police said. An off-duty security guard told police he exchanged gunfire with a man who robbed him in the 3600 block of Dolfield Avenue before 3 a.m. The robber fled in a vehicle, police said. Shortly afterward they located a man they identified as the robbery suspect in the 1900 block of Dukeland Street. The off-duty security guard was unharmed.

A Johns Hopkins University engineering professor was arrested early Sunday morning in Cape Cod, Mass., and charged with assaulting a 61-year-old security guard who said she was attempting to break up a party. Noah J. Cowan, 38, was charged with assault and battery on a person over 60, said Sgt. Douglas DeCosta, a spokesman for the Falmouth Police Department. DeCosta said police responded to a call at the Marine Biology Laboratory, where Cowan was a visiting researcher, about 2:40 a.m. Sunday.

A 20-year-old Odenton man who prosecutors said "has been a problem for a very long time" was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for assaulting a security guard at a Columbia apartment complex in May. Rick Delay Britton, of the 1200 block of Scotts Manor Court, was convicted in December by a Howard County Circuit Court jury of first-degree assault, use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime and possession of a handgun. Police and prosecutors say Britton was with Derrod Peterson when Peterson attacked the security guard.

North Calvert Street 2700 block, between 6:52 and 11 a.m. April 3. Car boot stolen from 2002 Mercury with California tags 5VCG075. Falls Road 5900 block, between 8 p.m. April 4 and 3 p.m. April 5. White and black business sign for Acupuncture For All stolen from front of business while it was closed. 3000 block, between 3:30 p.m. April 4 and 5 a.m. April 5. Impact drill set, two chip hammers, 14-inch chop saw stolen from Barco Enterprise construction site office.

The second of two men charged in the shooting and killing of a 72-year-οld security guard whο worked fοr thе Afro-American newspaper was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday evening. After deliberating for two days, a Baltimore City Circuit Court jury found Michael Hunter, 20, guilty of murder, armed robbery and handgun violations in connection with the murder of Charles Bowman during thе April 8, 2010, robbery οf a Chinese food carryout іn Waverly thаt netted $13. Prosecutors said Hunter was the gunman during the crime, which shook thе North Baltimore community аnd led police tο flood thе area wіth extra officers.

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Surveillance video helped police arrest a security guard at the Arundel Mills Mall who has been charged with stealing a safe filled with gold jewelry and money, according to Anne Arundel County police. Authorities said they are seeking a second suspect. The guard, John Thomas Cook IV, 22, of the 500 block of Ski Lane in Millersville, was arrested Monday and charged with one count of theft between $10,000 and $100,000. Police declined to say how much money or jewelry was in the safe.

If it's true that what goes around comes around, Crystal Jenkins Jones says she now knows that better than most. Last year, she says, her cousin was one of two people who shot and killed a 72-year-old security guard picking up Chinese food at a carryout on Greenmount Avenue. And on Monday night, Jones' 52-year-old husband, Freddie, was slain in a robbery at the same place. "The death last year happened from a family member of mine," Jones, 43, said Wednesday, standing in a nearby parking lot. "It'll come back to you if somebody takes a life from someone, and it just so happened a life was taken from me. " Baltimore homicide detectives canvassed the Better Waverly, Harwood and Abell neighborhoods of North Baltimore on Wednesday morning in hopes of drumming up tips in the killing of Freddie Jones Jr., an Army veteran and shuttle-bus driver at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The second of two men charged in the shooting and killing of a 72-year-οld security guard whο worked fοr thе Afro-American newspaper was convicted of first-degree murder Wednesday evening. After deliberating for two days, a Baltimore City Circuit Court jury found Michael Hunter, 20, guilty of murder, armed robbery and handgun violations in connection with the murder of Charles Bowman during thе April 8, 2010, robbery οf a Chinese food carryout іn Waverly thаt netted $13. Prosecutors said Hunter was the gunman during the crime, which shook thе North Baltimore community аnd led police tο flood thе area wіth extra officers.

A city judge on Thursday lengthened the sentence of a man convicted of killing a 72-year-old security guard for the Afro-American newspaper after the suspect refused to testify against the accused gunman. Circuit Court Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill found Troy Taylor, 20, in contempt of court after he refused to answer questions from attorneys while on the witness stand. Fletcher-Hill added five months and 29 days onto Taylor's 35-year sentence for first-degree murder. Prosecutors called Taylor to testify against his friend, Michael Hunter, 20, who is accused of gunning down Vietnam veteran Charles Bowman during the April 8, 2010, robbery of a Chinese food carryout in Waverly that netted $13. The crime shook the North Baltimore community and led police to flood the area with extra officers.

Ten years later and we still can't forget. More than 350 firemen and women, police officer, friends, relatives and nearby residents gathered inside the still-rather-new Darlington Volunteer Fire Company station, 1520 Whiteford Road, on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to commemorate a special memorial outside the station dedicated to those who died and those who survived that day, as well as the people in the community who...

A security guard who identified two suspects in the killing of former City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris stuck to his story Tuesday during pretrial motions, even as defense lawyers tried hard to rattle his recollection of the events. In his second consecutive day on the witness stand in Baltimore Circuit Court, the guard, Germyn Murray, insisted that he knew two of the men seen leaving the scene of Harris' murder in a surveillance video were Charles Y. McGaney and Gary A. Collins.

A 25-year-old man charged in North Carolina with kidnapping and attempted rape who escaped Thursday afternoon from a cell in Annapolis District Court was arrested shortly before midnight, county police said. Officers with the Anne Arundel County police, Annapolis police, Maryland State police, and the county sheriff's office were involved in the search for Bonrick Lee Barksdale since his escape about noon, said Anne Arundel police Lt. Francis Tewey. Barksdale was apprehended before midnight near the intersection of Dewey Drive and Sumner Road in the Admiral Heights community, Tewey said in an email.

A 20-year-old robbery suspect was in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder early Sunday, Baltimore police said. An off-duty security guard told police he exchanged gunfire with a man who robbed him in the 3600 block of Dolfield Avenue before 3 a.m. The robber fled in a vehicle, police said. Shortly afterward they located a man they identified as the robbery suspect in the 1900 block of Dukeland Street. The off-duty security guard was unharmed.