Shotgun

Maryland State Police say an armed suspect sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound Monday after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at a trooper responding to an attempted suicide call at the man's northern Harford County residence. The wounded man has been identified as John E. Murphy, 52, of the 4100 block of Norrisville Road in the White Hall ZIP Code. The house is near the Madonna crossroads. According to a state police news release issued shortly after 9 p.m. Monday, Murphy was receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to the shoulder at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

An employee at Mikie's restaurant in Glen Burnie pulled a shotgun from the hands of a man attempting to rob the restaurant on Wednesday morning and struck him with the weapon several times until the man fled, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Officers responded to a report of an attempted robbery at the restaurant in the 1200 block of Crain Highway about 6:16 a.m., police said. Once there, they were told that an unknown man had entered the restaurant with the shotgun and confronted the male employee.

A man pulled a shotgun on an Anne Arundel County police officer after officers were called to a neighborhood dispute, police said. Witnesses said that William Wesley Neall III had been acting erratically most of Thursday, banging on doors and yelling profanities in the 600 block of Belle Dora Court in Arnold, police said. As an officer waited for backup outside Neall's home, he came out pointing a loaded Winchester 12-gauge shotgun at the cop. The officer drew his weapon and ordered Neall, 46, to put his gun down, which he did, according to police.

A man pulled a shotgun on an Anne Arundel County police officer after officers were called to a neighborhood dispute, police said. Witnesses said that William Wesley Neall III had been acting erratically most of Thursday, banging on doors and yelling profanities in the 600 block of Belle Dora Court in Arnold, police said. As an officer waited for backup outside Neall's home, he came out pointing a loaded Winchester 12-gauge shotgun at the cop. The officer drew his weapon and ordered Neall, 46, to put his gun down, which he did, according to police.

An employee at Mikie's restaurant in Glen Burnie pulled a shotgun from the hands of a man attempting to rob the restaurant on Wednesday morning and struck him with the weapon several times until the man fled, according to Anne Arundel County Police. Officers responded to a report of an attempted robbery at the restaurant in the 1200 block of Crain Highway about 6:16 a.m., police said. Once there, they were told that an unknown man had entered the restaurant with the shotgun and confronted the male employee.

George Anderson of Washington County asks: I sighted-in my shotgun two years ago. I take good care of it, clean it and keep it stored in a closet. Should I spend the money and time to go to the range again this year? Outdoors Girl can image a beautiful buck, 8-point rack, walking directly toward your tree stand. You can hardly believe your eyes when it stops just 25 yards off and turns slightly to give you a clean shot. Visions of venison filling your freezer dance in your head.

A Baltimore man lost his left arm last night after he reached under a sofa bed for a loaded sawed-off shotgun and it discharged, striking him in the shoulder.City police said Alexander Jeffery Clayton Ceruti, 20, of the 1800 block of E. 30th St. near Clifton Park, was in serious condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital today after doctors amputated his left arm. Investigators said the shooting was accidental.Police said Ceruti was in a house in the 3900 block of Old York Road in Waverly shortly before 10 p.m. with some friends.

A 21-year-old Edgewood woman was killed Sunday night when she was hit by a shotgun blast as her boyfriend and another man struggled for the weapon, state police in Bel Air said.Kimberly Dawn Nichols, 21, was at the home she shared with her boyfriend, Stephen Michael Tresnak, 22, when Mr. Tresnak got into an argument with Jason Jude Maltese, 26, of Elrino Street in East Baltimore, police said.About 9 p.m., Mr. Tresnak got a shotgun, and the two men began to struggle over it. The gun went off, striking Ms. Nichols, police said.

Two off-duty Howard County police officers were hunting Tuesday afternoon in the Woodbine area south of Sykesville when someone fired a shotgun at them, police said yesterday.Daniel Narden Ricker, 31, of the 6300 block of Waterloo Road in Elkridge was arrested and charged with two counts of assault and reckless endangerment. He owns property next to where the officers were hunting.A police report also noted that Ricker had been banned from hunting on the same property.One of the officers, Jacob Guy Bell, has permission to hunt on the property, a police report said.

A shotgun-toting Severna Park man was arrested Sunday after a tense confrontation with police and charged with assault with intent to murder his wife, county police said.Freddie Zonia Sheppard, 47, of the first block of Whites Road also was charged with carrying a deadly weapon with intent to cause injury, battery, assault on an officer, and possession of marijuana.Police went to the Whites Road address after someone called 911 and hung up and police dispatchers got a busy signal when they called back.

New gun charges have been filed against the Baltimore blogger who broadcast his standoff with police online via live radio as they tried to arrest him on an outstanding warrant last week, according to court records and police. Police said they found an unregistered sawed-off shotgun in his home. Frank James MacArthur, 47, a cab driver and prolific social media user who has branded himself as a citizen-journalist and city watchdog through Twitter posts and online radio broadcasts under the name Baltimore Spectator, peacefully turned himself over to police outside his home in the 600 block of McKewin Avenue about 11 p.m. Saturday.

Two men have been indicted by federal prosecutors for allegedly robbing at least three Baltimore area convenience stores with a shotgun. Prosecutors say Quindell Ryeshawn Gardner, 21, and Dion Mitchell Doram, 22, conspired between May and July to commit a series of robberies using stolen cars, with one acting as the getaway driver. On June 21, police say the pair traveled in a stolen vehicle to Hampden, where Doram entered the Royal Farms store in the 1100 block of W. 41 s t St., brandished a shotgun and demanded cash and cartons of cigarettes.

A 52-year-old White Hall man who was shot by a Maryland State Police trooper in Harford County on Monday after allegedly pointing a shotgun at the officer has been charged with multiple counts of assault. He's also been charged with reckless endangerment and using a dangerous weapon with intent to injure the officer. Troopers had responded to the home of John E. Murphy, in the 4100 block of Norrisville Road, about 1:30 p.m. after his girlfriend called 911 and said he was armed, suicidal and wanted police to kill him, state police said.

Maryland State Police say an armed suspect sustained a non-life threatening gunshot wound Monday after he allegedly pointed a shotgun at a trooper responding to an attempted suicide call at the man's northern Harford County residence. The wounded man has been identified as John E. Murphy, 52, of the 4100 block of Norrisville Road in the White Hall ZIP Code. The house is near the Madonna crossroads. According to a state police news release issued shortly after 9 p.m. Monday, Murphy was receiving treatment for a gunshot wound to the shoulder at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

The shotgun that Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. allegedly used in last week's shooting at Perry Hall High School wasn't registered with the state. Under Maryland law, that wasn't required. Police also say the 15-year-old Gladden should never have been able to get his hands on the weapon. He found it unsecured in his father's home, according to court documents. The shooting has shed light on the gap between the regulation of handguns - often used in crimes - and "long guns" such as the double-barrel Western Field shotgun that police seized, a firearm more common on a hunting range or farm.

Perry Hall High School shooting suspect Robert Wayne Gladden Jr. knew his stepfather owned a cache of powerful guns but was unable to gain access to them because they were locked in a safe, Baltimore County police said Friday. "This shooting, as devastating as it was, could have been a lot worse," Police Chief James Johnson wrote in a blog entry posted on a county news website Friday. Police have obtained evidence that Gladden was "well aware of the guns" but knew he couldn't get to them, according to the blog.

Three Montgomery County men were charged with firearms violations Tuesday after police found two shotguns in an Isuzu Trooper automobile,county police said.The three occupants of the vehicle were arrested at 12:45 a.m., police said, after an officer on patrol pulled theTrooper over on southbound U.S. 29 for an automobile equipment violation and noticed a 12-gauge shotgun on the back seat.After a search of the vehicle, the officer also found a 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun under the front passenger seat, police said.

A 17-year-old shot himself to death in the Westminster house of a relative yesterday, apparently immediately after he called 911 and told a police communications officer he had a shotgun and intended to kill himself.Police rushed to the house and surrounded it, not knowing that the youth, whom they did not identify, had already carried out his threat.Keeping out of sight, police for more than seven hours telephoned the house, pleaded with the youth to come out and watched for some sign of life.

A pit bull was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon in Edgewood by a deputy with the Harford County sheriff's office after it bit a child and then charged the officer, according to a sheriff's spokeswoman. The shooting came one day after the General Assembly deadlocked over legislation that would have overruled a court decision labeling pit bulls as inherently dangerous animals, ending the bill's chance of passage during this summer's second special session. An anonymous caller first contacted police about 4:50 p.m. to report two aggressive pit bulls walking in the 1400 block of St. Michael's Court in the Stoneleigh Square subdivision, said Monica Worrell, the spokeswoman.

An article in the May 4, 1912 edition of The Argus reported on the latest incident in a frightening series of fatal shootings in the area. The residents of Catonsville are alarmed over a number of valuable dogs which have been shot and killed within the last two weeks and efforts are being made to apprehend the guilty persons. Several days ago, a valuable setter dog belonging to Dr. Walter A. Low was killed with a shotgun. ***** Gudgeon fishing along the Patapsco river at Relay has caused a flurry of excitement among the anglers, and every day this week the banks of the river were lined with fisherman.