Stab Wounds

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.

An inmate found with stab wounds at a Jessup prison Monday night was in stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, a spokesman for state prisons said.Marc Cason, 37, was found about 8: 25 p.m. in a recreation yard at the Maryland House of Correction with stab wounds in the neck and chest, said Dave Towers, spokesman for the Division of Correction.No arrest has been made and no weapon has been found, Towers said, adding that the incident was being investigated.

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 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.

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.

A 26-year-old man was found fatally stabbed early yesterday in his West Baltimore apartment after neighbors heard screams for help.Called by the neighbors, police went to the apartment in the 800 block of W. Lexington St. about 3 a.m. and found Darrell Lloyd lying on the floor in a pool of blood. He had several stab wounds, according to Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a city police spokeswoman.Several other people who were in the apartment were being questioned by police, but no one had been charged in the slaying, police said.

BALTIMORE -- A 29-year old Baltimore City Detention Center prisoner was stabbed as he returned to his cell from recreation time at 9:22 a.m. yesterday, prison officials reported..Jail spokeswoman Barbara Cooper said injuries to Thomas Woodell, 27, of the 2000 block of Edmondson Ave., were not life-threatening.Mr. Woodell was admitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital for stab wounds to his chest, lower back and arm. He was reported in stable condition last night, Ms. Cooper said.No suspect or weapon was found immediately, prison officials said.