Shot To Death

A man was shot to death at the Sugar Hill Tavern, a tiny liquor store in the 2300 block of Druid Hill Ave., about 5 p.m. yesterday, police said. A police spokeswoman said last night that the victim, who appeared to be in his 30s, had not been identified. He was shot in the head and was not robbed, the spokeswoman said, leading police to suspect that the victim was targeted by the shooter. Nobody at the store was willing to comment last night, and an unruly customer prevented a reporter from talking to employees.

Baltimore police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old West Baltimore man who was found shot once in the chest on North Payson Street late Friday night.Steven Louis Jupiter Jr. of the 1600 block of W. Mulberry St. was shot just after 11: 10 p.m. outside the 7-Eleven store in the 700 block of N. Payson St., police said.Jupiter was taken to Bon Secours Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, they said.Homicide detectives said they knewof no motives or suspects.

A man was fatally shot during an attempted robbery yesterday near Patterson Park in Southeast Baltimore. He was the city's 299th homicide victim this year, police said.Arthur E. Armel, 38, was walking near his home in the 100 block of N. Potomac St. about 1 a.m. when he was shot several times with a handgun, said Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman. Armel was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died, Rowe said.Baltimore has had 300 homicides or more every year since 1990.

A man in his 20s was found shot to death yesterday afternoon in a Northwest Baltimore alley, city police reported.Homicide detectives said they had not confirmed the identity of the victim, and that they did not know whether he had been shot at the scene in the 2600 block of W. Cold Spring Lane or dumped there. The body was found shortly past 1: 30 p.m.Police said it was the 27th homicide in the city this year -- a rate of nearly one a day.Pub Date: 1/31/99

An unidentified man was shot to death yesterday in a house in Northwest Baltimore, police said.Officers responding to a report of a shooting entered the house in the 2800 block of W. Cold Spring Lane about 11: 45 a.m. and found a body in the living room. The man had been shot at least once, police said.Police said the victim, in his 20s, was not a resident of the house. They were trying to identify him through fingerprints.Pub Date: 2/04/99

A Baltimore man, 37, was shot and killed at 6: 16 p.m. during an apparent robbery in the 1000 block of Edmondson Ave., city police reported -- the 309th homicide of the year.The victim, whose identity was withheld pending notification of relatives, was found shot to death in an alley near Arlington Avenue, said Detective Gordon Carew. The man is believed to have lived in the area.Pub Date: 12/27/98

Two young men were found shot to death in apparently unrelated incidents in Baltimore early yesterday, city police reported.Sebastian Lamont Clowney, 23, of the 6100 block of Shipview Way, was found dead shortly before 7: 30 a.m. in the rear yard of a house in the 1500 block of Elrino St. in O'Donnell Heights.Detective Lynette Nevins said area residents heard shots at 2: 40 a.m., but police did not find anything amiss at the time.In the other incident, Detective Danny Danzie said officers were questioning a man seen firing a gun shortly past midnight near the 2700 block of Fenwick Ave., near Clifton Park.

Two people were found shot to death early yesterday in unrelated Baltimore slayings, police said.Homicide detectives arrested two suspects in one of the shootings, which occurred at 2: 15 a.m. in the 2300 block of Federal St. in East Baltimore. Police said they suspected robbery was the motive.Police said Gregory Peck McGraw, 25, of the 900 block of Patterson Park Ave. was fleeing two men when he was shot once in the back and collapsed. He was declared dead at the scene.Two men, both 20, were soon arrested, said Officer Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman.

The partially clothed body of an unidentified woman was found yesterday morning in a park in Baltimore's downtown Seton Hill neighborhood in one of two city homicides overnight.City police also were investigating the shooting death of a man walking home from work, and a pair of shootings that left four teen-agers hospitalized.The woman's body was found shortly before 7: 30 a.m. by a passer-by walking a dog through St. Mary's Park off the 600 block of N. Paca St., police said.The victim, described only as a black woman in her 30s, was lying face up near a wall on the east side of the park, and appeared to have suffered heavy blows to her head.

A woman was shot to death in the back yard of an East Baltimore rowhouse yesterday. Police said they were seeking a man known as "Scar" for questioning.Police said residents of a house in the 2300 block of E. Federal St. heard a gunshot about 1 p.m. The victim was identified as Danielle DuBose, 23, of the 1600 block of N. Milton Ave. She was shot in the shoulder and was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said.In an unrelated incident, the man found shot to death Wednesday in a car parked in Leakin Park has been identified as Leonard M. Williams, 25, of the 6500 block of Falkirk Road.

A 14-year-old Brooklyn boy died last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center shortly after he was shot by an unknown assailant near a Baltimore City fire station, police said. Steven Graham of the 500 block of Annabel Ave. was at the intersection of Maude Avenue and 4th Street about 7:30 p.m. when he was shot, possibly by an occupant of a car that sped away, police said. Graham fell to the pavement nearly in front of Engine Company 35. Graham's killing came about nine hours after an unidentified man was found shot on the first floor of a West Baltimore rowhouse.

A man found dead in North Baltimore's Govans neighborhood early Sunday was shot to death, and the case has been ruled a homicide, police said yesterday. Tyrone McCray, 28, of the 8800 block of Falcon Ridge Drive, Owings Mills was found about 2 a.m. outside a home in the 5500 block of Ivanhoe Ave., near Tunbridge Road, police said. He is the 122nd person to be killed in the city this year. Last year at this time, 182 people had been slain.

I call them ghost hunters, people searching for a long-lost someone - a parent who gave them up for adoption, an uncle who disappeared over the Himalayas, a son declared MIA near the Xe Pon River in Laos. A few times each year, I get a phone call or a letter asking for help in settling a mystery or making a connection. One time, it was the mayor of a French village seeking the Baltimore relatives of an American soldier who had been killed in its liberation in 1944. Sometimes, there's a crime involved, real or suspected - a daughter believed to have been abducted, or a son stabbed to death on his way home from a barroom, his killer still at large.

Feb. 21 1965 Muslim leader and civil rights activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death inside the Audubon Ballroom in New York.

A man was found shot to death yesterday morning in East Baltimore, police said. The unidentified man was shot in the head in the 1600 block of E. Federal St. about 10 a.m., said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman. The man was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said they had no suspects.

Baltimore County police have released the identity of a man found shot to death early Thursday in Pikesville. Joseph Edward Brown, 22, of the 4400 block of Evamay Road in Baltimore died of gunshot wounds to the upper body, police said yesterday. Officers found his body in the 8200 block of Vosges Road about 6 a.m. Thursday. Police are investigating and ask that anyone with information call Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-756-2587.

Nov. 27 1978 San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White.

Oct. 3 2002 Five people were shot to death in the Washington area within a 14-hour period, sparking the hunt for the "Beltway Sniper."

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 205 THE VICTIM A native of Nepal working an over-night shift at a Texaco gas station in the 2600 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway was shot to death early yesterday during what might have been a robbery, police said. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 178 homicides as of Aug. 27, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 181 THE VICTIMS Cynthia Webb, 42, was found shot to death in her home in the 900 block of W. Lombard St. after an argument Friday night. A warrant was issued for the arrest of her husband, correctional officer Donald Webb Jr., 48. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap