Stab Wounds

City homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man whose stabbed and beaten body was found early yesterday in the basement of a Northwest Baltimore house after firefighters extinguished a blaze there. The man's name was being withheld pending notification of family members. Reported at 4:45 a.m. in the 2600 block of W. Cold Spring Lane, the fire was confined to a basement apartment and extinguished in less than 30 minutes, said Fire Chief Kevin Cartwright, a spokesman for the city Fire Department.

A 43-year-old man who police say was stabbed more than 20 times last month by his stepson during an argument over money died late last week from his injuries, according to police and court records. Police say George Stevenson was able to call for help, and responding officers found him bleeding profusely in the living room of his apartment in the 1400 block of Limit Ave., suffering from stab wounds to his arm, chest and back. Stevenson said he had been stabbed with an unknown object by his stepson, 16-year-old Galen Stevenson, who then fled on foot, police said.

A 40-year-old Hispanic man with apparent stab wounds was found dead on the floor of a Columbia apartment early yesterday morning, and police were questioning two "persons of interest" in the homicide, Howard County police said yesterday. Police declined to identify the victim - who was found in an Owen Brown village apartment in the 6500 block of Quiet Hours Road - until his relatives were notified. Officer Diana Peters, a police spokeswoman, said that police received a 911 call at 2:24 a.m. yesterday from a "person who indicated that a friend had been killed."

A 17-year-old boy was stabbed multiple times in the upper torso in Edgewood shortly after 7 p.m. Monday, according to the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Bleeding from stab wounds, he flagged down a patrol deputy about 7:15 p.m. near the intersection of Woodbridge Center Way and Acorn Ridge Court, according to Monica Worrell, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office. The boy, from the White Marsh area, told police he was in the area visiting a friend when he was jumped by several people, Worrell said.

A Severn man died early yesterday after collapsing in an Annapolis apartment with stab wounds to his chest, according to Annapolis police.Capt. Zora Lykken, city police spokeswoman, said that shortly after midnight, Howard E. Hull, 33, of the 8200 block of Deerfield Circle, came to the apartment of Amanda J. White, 27, of the 1100 block of Madison St. in Annapolis, where he apparently had been expected.Lykken said that when White opened her door, she asked Hull where he had been, and he responded, "I'm sorry that I'm late."

An 86-year-old man was fatally stabbed and his 25-year-old daughter seriously wounded in an attack early yesterday at their West Baltimore home, city police said.A male friend of Alethea Harcum and her father, Leroy M. Harcum Sr., was charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder, police said.According to homicide Detective Bobby Patton, Ms. Harcum and a male friend attended a party on Carlisle Avenue Saturday night, after which the man drove her to her home in the 1200 block of Ashburton St. They arrived about 3 a.m., police said, and the man left several minutes later.

Three inmates at a state-run prison in Jessup were stabbed - one fatally - by three other prisoners wielding homemade knives early yesterday, corrections officials said. George Gregory, a spokesman for the prison system, said the three were assaulted about 12:30 a.m. in a dorm for general population inmates at the Maryland House of Correction, a maximum-security prison that houses some of the state's most violent and dangerous offenders. "We took three suspects into custody and found four homemade weapons," Gregory said.

Two men were sent to hospitals - one with stab wounds and the other with head injuries - after a fight between two men in Hampstead late Friday apparently erupted into a free-for-all among 30 to 40 people behind several Main Street businesses, according to Maryland State Police. No charges have been filed, and an investigation is continuing, said Cpl. Andrew A. Eways of the Westminster barracks. Steven Earl O'Donnell, 19, who has no fixed address but frequents the Hampstead area, was stabbed during the melee and taken by helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated and released the next morning.

A 40-year-old Hispanic man with apparent stab wounds was found dead on the floor of a Columbia apartment early yesterday morning, and authorities were questioning two "persons of interest" in the homicide, Howard County police said yesterday. Police declined to identify the victim -- who was found in an Owen Brown village apartment in the 6500 block of Quiet Hours Road -- until his relatives were notified. Officer Diana Peters, a police spokeswoman, said that police received a 911 call at 2:24 a.m. yesterday from a "person who indicated that a friend had been killed."

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Anna Lindh, the widely respected Swedish foreign minister mentioned often as a potential leader of the nation, died early yesterday of stab wounds suffered Wednesday, when an unidentified assailant slashed her repeatedly with a knife in a department store. Her death left the nation dismayed and distressed, stirring painful memories of the killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986 and sharpening the quandary of Scandinavian nations such as Sweden, which seek to balance their traditional openness against the newer dictates of security.

Two Brooklyn Park men were stabbed early Thursday at their home during an argument that involved several family members. Anne Arundel County Police responded at 2:37 a.m. to a report of domestic violence in the 5300 block of Fourth Street. Two victims, men aged 19 and 48, were suffering from stab wounds. Officers learned that, prior to calling police, several family members were involved in an argument and had ordered one male relative to leave the residence. The man left, but returned a short time later and forcibly entered the home, police said.

A Brooklyn Park couple were hospitalized in serious but stable condition with stab wounds Monday and the husband is the suspect in the assault, Anne Arundel County police said. Police said the husband had stabbed his wife and himself, adding that the man, whom they identified as a suspect under police guard, will be charged when he is released from the hospital. They are both at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Officers went to the couple's home around 8 p.m. Sunday after a report of a domestic assault and found the 37-year-old woman and her husband each with several stab wounds, police said.

A Baltimore County man was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after he was stabbed Thanksgiving evening by an apparently intoxicated man in Pikesville, Baltimore County Police said. Police arrested a resident of the Milford Mill area at his nearby home. The victim, 51-year-old Douglas Gray of the 8700 block of Church Lane, was taken to the hospital for non-fatal stab wounds, police said. The stabbing occurred at about 7 p.m. Thursday in the area of Langrehr and Liberty roads in Milford Mill, Northwest Baltimore County.

Aberdeen police found two brothers suffering stab wounds near the intersection of Post Road and East Bel Air Avenue in Aberdeen early Saturday, police said. Aberdeen resident David M. Dudley, 23, and his sibling Meishau O. Dudley, 27, who lives in Havre de Grace, were stabbed during a fight, according to a statement Saturday by the Aberdeen Police Department. Police responded around 3:20 a.m. David Dudley was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center and treated for abdominal wounds.

The Frederick County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the man shot last week during an apparent robbery in a downtown parking garage owned by the University of Maryland, Baltimore had been stabbed in March during a home invasion there. The victim was identified through that home invasion as Amir Abbas Doulatshahi, 45, of Middletown. Capt. Tim Clarke, the special operations commander for the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said investigators have turned over their files from that case to Baltimore police, but would not comment on whether they believe the cases are related.

Dozens of law enforcement officers, some on horseback and aided by volunteers and dogs trained to sniff for cadavers, searched two parks in northern Montgomery County for signs of 11-year-old William McQuain on Sunday. The search through the woodlands came three days after the arrest of Curtis M. Lopez, who is accused of killing William's mother, Jane McQuain, 51, in her Germantown apartment sometime in the past two weeks. McQuain's body was discovered on Wednesday, and Lopez, who is McQuain's estranged husband, was arrested in North Carolina on Thursday after police located McQuain's car near Charlotte.

The boyfriend of a woman who was fatally stabbed Tuesday in her Baldwin home has been charged with first-degree murder, Baltimore County police said today. Alice Tremper, 34, was found dead after an argument at her home in the 5300 block of Sweet Air Road in the Baldwin area of northern Baltimore County. John Albert Coles, 30, who is in critical condition from self-inflicted stab wounds, will receive a bail hearing as soon as his medical condition allows it, police said. Coles is at Maryland Shock Trauma Center under police guard.

A 43-year-old man who police say was stabbed more than 20 times last month by his stepson during an argument over money died late last week from his injuries, according to police and court records. Police say George Stevenson was able to call for help, and responding officers found him bleeding profusely in the living room of his apartment in the 1400 block of Limit Ave., suffering from stab wounds to his arm, chest and back. Stevenson said he had been stabbed with an unknown object by his stepson, 16-year-old Galen Stevenson, who then fled on foot, police said.

Baltimore County police responded to two separate stabbings at opposite ends of the county early Friday. The first call came in at 4:10 a.m. from a woman in the 1400 block of Hadwick Drive in Essex. She told police a man, with whom she was slightly acquainted, was banging on her front door and bleeding from stab wounds. Patrol officers took the man to Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital. His injuries were not considered life-threatening. The other incident occurred at 5:37 a.m. in the 7400 Brixworth Court in Woodlawn.

A man stabbed his wife and himself while the woman's 13-year-old son sat nearby in a parked vehicle, Maryland State Police said in a statement Friday evening. Douglas Harvey, 50, died from self-inflicted stab wounds, police said. His wife, Lisa Harvey, 45, is in critical condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Lisa, who had stopped living with Douglas about a month ago, arrived with her son to collect some belongings from the single-family home in the 1700 block of Strand Ave. in Westminster, police said.