Slaying

A long-sought suspect in December's drug-related slaying of an Arnold high school senior was arrested Wednesday in New York City.Annapolis police have charged Eddie Rivers Jr., 23, of Brooklyn, with first-degree murder. He is being held in the Brooklyn Detention Center on weapons charges and is awaiting extradition.Police say the man was arrested using an alias, and a comparison of his fingerprints led police to positively identify him.Annapolis police spokesman Officer Dermott Hickey said Rivers is believed tobe the trigger man in the slaying of Darryll Downs, 18, of the 300 block of Ternwing Drive.

Counselors and psychologists will be on hand at Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City on Monday as students return for the first school day since two classmates were charged with killing well-known Howard County blogger Dennis Lane. The county school system will provide the support for students and staff who may be upset over the slaying Friday and the first-degree murder and conspiracy charges against Jason Anthony Bulmer, 19, and Morgan Lane Arnold, Lane's 14-year-old daughter.

A 19-year-old Bowie State University student accused of stabbing and killing her suitemate after a dispute over music was indicted Thursday on charges of murder and carrying a dangerous weapon openly. Alexis Simpson had been jailed since last month, when she was arrested in connection with the Sept. 15 slaying of 18-year-old Dominique Frazier. Police have said that Simpson turned off an iPod that was playing in the suite, then stabbed Frazier in the neck after the two got into a fight about it. Frazier and Simpson were suitemates in Bowie State University's Christa McAuliffe residence hall and had ongoing tensions, police have said.

Note: Due to a clerical error in the court record, an earlier version of this story provided incorrect information regarding the sentence issued. It has been corrected here. A Baltimore man was sentenced Monday to serve a day shy of nine years in prison for killing his half-brother in the parking lot of a Glen Burnie restaurant. Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Paul A. Hackner imposed a 10-year sentence on Cornelius K. Johnson and suspended one year and a day of it, according to court records.

City police have arrested and charged a 32-year-old man with first-degree murder in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred in the summer of 2007 in East Baltimore, in the same block in which the suspect lived. Phillip Herrell, of the 900 block of E. Preston St., was ordered held without bail on Thursday. In addition to the murder count, he was charged with two counts of assault and using a handgun in a violent crime, according to court records. The arrest stems from a shooting that occurred June 9, 2007 on East Preston Street that claimed the life of Melvin Jordan, 32, who lived in the 600 block of N. Lakewood Ave. Police said Jordan was shot in the head about 1:30 a.m. and found on the sidewalk.

Baltimore police arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with a fatal shooting that took place Wednesday afternoon in Northeast Baltimore. Isaacier A. McQueen Jr. has been charged in the death of 19-year-old Craig Manuel, who was shot at about 3:15 p.m. in the 2700 block of Polk St., police said. A witness told The Sun that he heard four or five gunshots and saw Manuel stumbling up the street, where he was later found by officers and rushed to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said police arrested McQueen early Tuesday in East Baltimore, and said that detectives solved the case with help from the community.

He was an elderly Peruvian immigrant beaten to death with his own cane while on a leisurely stroll along Reisterstown Road. Baltimore police had the bloodied cane and a witness who said he saw that attack last May. Detectives quickly arrested Hector Jose Posada and charged the 35-year-old with murder. On Thursday, Assistant State's Attorney Charles Blomquist had to stand before a city judge and explain how the case fell apart, and why prosecutors had to drop the charge and give up virtually any chance of bringing a killer to justice.

Baltimore County Police have charged an Overlea man in the killing of 19-year-old Bradley Adam Robinson in White Marsh last week. Police arrested Travis Brian Durant, of Dawalt Avenue, Tuesday and charged him with first-degree murder. On August 17, police responding to a call about shots fired found Robinson lying in the front yard of a townhouse near his home in White Marsh. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives said that Robinson had gone to meet with Durant.

Baltimore police have made an arrest in the killing of a 50-year-old man whose body was set on fire in April, and court documents appear to indicate an effort by the Police Department to be more deliberate in building cases. Eugene Emmett Bates, 36, was indicted last week and charged in the death of Elmore Rembert, who police say was killed during an argument as the pair used drugs in a vacant home in the Booth-Boyd neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore. Bates is accused of setting the house on fire and stealing Rembert's truck.

Cornelius Keith Johnson, 24, of Baltimore is facing a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of his half-brother on Nov. 13 at a Glen Burnie seafood restaurant. Johnson, of the 4200 block of Shamrock Ave., had reported Friday to the Baltimore County Detention Center to serve a four-day sentence on an unrelated charge. When officers at the Towson prison checked his warrant status, they discovered he was wanted in connection with the death of 25-year-old Andrew Michael Johnson of the 100 block of Sloane Drive in Glen Burnie.

A Pasadena man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife as she was preparing to leave him. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Alison L. Asti sentenced Stephen Richard Salb, 58, on Friday, agreeing with the sentence prosecutors sought for the July 2011 fatal stabbing of Jill Teets Salb, 38. "It was the ultimate in domestic violence," said prosecutor Anne Colt Leitess. "She was going to leave him and he wasn't going to have that. " Leitess said the victim had nine stab wounds, but more than 100 cuts - which Leitess said indicated that she tried to fight off her husband.

Baltimore police on Thursday released two grainy surveillance images of a group of people walking across Greenmount Avenue on the night of a triple shooting there that left a 16-year-old boy dead, calling them "persons of interest" and asking for the public's help in identifying them. Officers responded to the 2700 block of Greenmount about 8 p.m. Nov. 20 for a report of shooting and found three victims - two men and Daniel Pearson, 16. All were transported to local hospitals. While the two men, ages 33 and 20, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Pearson was pronounced dead.

The first time I saw Audie Mickens, he had just turned 19 and he'd been arrested as the shooter in an attempted murder in Northwest Baltimore. He appeared at a hearing in District Court, and as I listened to the prosecutor detail the charges against him, I wondered how his life would turn out. Would the young fool go to prison? Would he die an early death? Was there any hope for a better outcome? Police alleged that, on the afternoon of May 3, 2007, Mickens had slipped a paintball mask over his face and stepped out of a Chevrolet Monte Carlo with a .45-caliber handgun.

The state's highest court has overturned the second-degree murder conviction of Thomas B. Harris, convicted of fatally stabbing Karim Cross in a Randallstown bar in 2006, and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals agreed with a decision by the lower appeals court. Harris was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger said prosecutors would make a decision on "whether we can go forward" with retrying Harris, as they would have to find witnesses from six years ago. The court agreed with the lower appeals court ruling that the trial judge should have declared a mistrial.

Baltimore police released the identities Sunday of two men found slain. Antoine Sellers, 27, of the 2600 block of Huron Court, was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the torso around 8:40 p.m. Saturday in the 600 block of Dumbarton Avenue, police said. He died a short time later at Union Memorial Hospital, according to police. Police also identified the victim of a fatal stabbing Friday in the 2700 block of West North Avenue as Nabil Epps, 34, of the 1000 block of Upnor Road.

A Baltimore man has been charged with murder in the slaying of a security guard last weekend at Tee Bee's Bar in Parkville, Baltimore County police said. Police said Saturday they arrested Haywood Trice, 25, of the 1500 block of N. Wolfe St., and charged him with first-degree murder and possession of a dangerous weapon with intent to injure. Trice is being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center. County police said they responded to reports of a fight at the bar, in the 7100 block of Darlington Drive, at 1:30 a.m. Sept.

A Baltimore County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday sentenced a man to life plus 20 years in the slaying of a Milford Mill man during a botched home burglary, the county state's attorneys office said. Kelly Shird, 28, was convicted in October of first-degree murder and first-degree burglary, and was sentenced by Judge Michael Finifter. Shird shot and killed Craig Bouie in Bouie's home during a struggle. Bouie confronted Shird, who had broken into the home through a rear basement window, after leaving his wife's side as she fed their one-month-old son on the second floor.

A teenager was charged Thursday with fatally shooting a 70-year-old church caretaker during a struggle last year over a scooter, a crime that drew outrage not only among the victim's friends and family but from a city reeling from eight killings in a single week. The suspect, 18-year-old James Jeffrey Johnson, lives five blocks from the rented rowhouse of the victim, Milton Hill, who was shot in an alley behind his home on East North Avenue, next to the Ark Church where he volunteered as a custodian.

A Baltimore man convicted of killing a dentist for money in Glen Burnie was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive life terms in prison, one of them without parole, plus additional years. Dante Jeter, 25, already serving 60 years in prison for an unrelated murder in the city, stood silently as Anne Arundel County Circuit Court Judge Pamela L. North handed down the life sentences to be followed by 30 years. Jeter was convicted of first-degree murder, conspiracy and related counts in May in the Sept.

A Baltimore man was sentenced in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to 60 years in prison Friday for his part in the 2010 fatal robbery of a Brooklyn Park man, according to court records. Rodney R. Barnwell, 23, had pleaded guilty in March to first-degree murder in the slaying of Adam Ray Bucklew. The 21-year-old victim was found shot to death in July 2010 in his vehicle near his home in the 400 block Audrey Avenue. A second suspect, Ricky L. Mason, 24, was sentenced earlier to 55 years in prison in the case, court records show.