Stab Wounds

A fight in Essex left two men in hospital with stab wounds, Baltimore County Police said. The men got into an altercation around 1 a.m. in the 1000 block of Foxchase Lane, police said. Their wounds were said to be not life threatening. Patrol officers are investigating the incident and no further information was immediately available. iduncan@baltsun.com twitter.com/iduncan

Baltimore County Police said two women were stabbed - one fatally - in an incident overnight in the Parkville area. Police said that at 12:08 a.m., they responded to a home in the unit block of Lerner Court in Parkville.  A female had called 911 and asked for the police to be sent to the location, but gave no further information before the line disconnected, police said. When officers arrived, they found two females with stab wounds.  One female was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.  One person was taken into custody at the scene.

Baltimore County Police said two women were stabbed - one fatally - in an incident overnight in the Parkville area. Police said that at 12:08 a.m., they responded to a home in the unit block of Lerner Court in Parkville.  A female had called 911 and asked for the police to be sent to the location, but gave no further information before the line disconnected, police said. When officers arrived, they found two females with stab wounds.  One female was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.  One person was taken into custody at the scene.

Baltimore Police say a man was stabbed to death early Sunday morning after apparently getting into an argument with two other people near the Inner Harbor. Police said the incident occurred at about 2:18 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of East Pratt Street. The victim, identified by police as a 20-year-old black male, was leaving work when two individuals approached him and became engaged in an argument. The argument escalated and the victim was stabbed multiple times in the upper body, police said.

A 46-year-old man died after he was stabbed Thursday night during an argument in Laurel, and a 20-year-old man has been charged on multiple counts, according to the Howard County police department. Officers were called around 7:15 p.m. Thursday to the 10000 block of North 2nd Street in Laurel, police officials said. They found Robert Lynn Foster of Savage lying near the entrance to the Midway mobile home park with stab wounds. Foster was taken to Laurel Regional Hospital with stab wounds and was pronounced dead there, according to police.

Baltimore Police say a man was stabbed to death early Sunday morning after apparently getting into an argument with two other people near the Inner Harbor. Police said the incident occurred at about 2:18 a.m. Sunday in the 200 block of East Pratt Street. The victim, identified by police as a 20-year-old black male, was leaving work when two individuals approached him and became engaged in an argument. The argument escalated and the victim was stabbed multiple times in the upper body, police said.

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 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."

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."

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.

A U.S. Marshals task force in North Carolina arrested a Baltimore man Friday in the fatal stabbing of a 31-year-old woman in the Lakeland neighborhood. Along with Winston Salem, N.C., police, task force officers found Michael Gerald Wesley, 34, at a bus stop in Winston Salem through tips and surveillance. When they moved to make an arrest, authorities said he tried to evade capture by hiding his face and ducking into a business. As he was heading for a back door in a business, U.S. Marshals Service officials said, deputy U.S. Marshals detained him without incident.

The family of a 28-year-old man found fatally stabbed Friday behind a railroad car in Southwest Baltimore said they're struggling to understand why someone would take his life. LaConte Mitchell, who worked security at Spring Grove Hospital Center, had never been arrested and "was always on the straight and narrow," said Tyronea Williams, 37, a close cousin. "He was a good kid — trouble never found him, and he never looked for it," Williams said. Mitchell was found suffering from stab wounds about 6 a.m. Friday at the end of the 600 block of S. Fulton Ave. in a grassy field near an idled set of railroad cars.

A fight in Essex left two men in hospital with stab wounds, Baltimore County Police said. The men got into an altercation around 1 a.m. in the 1000 block of Foxchase Lane, police said. Their wounds were said to be not life threatening. Patrol officers are investigating the incident and no further information was immediately available. iduncan@baltsun.com twitter.com/iduncan

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 are investigating a stabbing of a man in West Baltimore Saturday evening. Around 9 p.m., police were called to the 400 block of Manse Court in the Madison Park neighborhood for a report of an assault, said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a Baltimore police spokesman. Officers found a man suffering from stab wounds who said he had been attacked by an unknown person near McCulloh and Dolphin Streets, Silbert said. The man was taken to a nearby hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, Silbert said.

One man was fatally shot and another is recovering from multiple stabbings in two overnight incidents in Baltimore County, police said. Police found a man suffering from at least one gunshot wound in the 3800 block of McDowell Lane in Halethorpe at 11:46 p.m. Friday. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died. In a separate incident, police found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds at 1:52 a.m. Saturday at Eastern Boulevard and Island Point Road in Dundalk.

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.

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.

A Pasadena man accused of killing his wife with nine stab wounds and 92 knife slashes admitted Tuesday morning that prosecutors had enough evidence to convict him of first-degree murder. Stephen Richard Salb, 57, entered an Alford plea in the July 2011 slaying of his wife, Jill Teets Salb, 38, in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court. The plea means Salb maintains his innocence while acknowledging he could be convicted. Salb faces life in prison, a sentence prosecutor Anne Leitess said the state will recommend at his November sentencing hearing.

Anne Arundel County police have charged a 30-year-old Baltimore resident with attempted murder in an incident that occurred early Monday in Pasadena. Raymond Gene Adkins, of the 600 block Ponca Street in East Baltimore, also faces assault charges and is being held at the county detention center. Officers, responding to a 1 a.m. call, found the victim on the front porch of a residence in the 700 block of Duvall Highway. The man was suffering from two stab wounds to his upper body.