Stab Wounds

A 35-year-old man was found fatally stabbed Tuesday morning inside a West Baltimore home, according to police. A resident of the home in the 1400 block of N. Dukeland St., in the Northwest Community Action neighborhood, found Timothy Mason on the second floor suffering from several stab wounds to his chest, police said. Medical personnel pronounced Mason dead at 11:28 a.m., according to police. No arrests had been made, and investigators had not determined a motive, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman.

The 20-year-old who was fatally stabbed Friday night in East Baltimore was attacked during a fight at a party at the Great Blacks in Wax Museum, records show. Police said the museum, which is in the 1600 block of E. North Ave. and features more than 100 life-size wax figures of prominent black leaders, had been rented out for a "large party" held by a group called the Baltimore Christian Warriors, according to court records and museum staff. A number of fights erupted, and Joshua Hargrove was stabbed as a group of men were escorted out of the facility just before midnight, records show.

A 37-year-old Florida man who met a Cockeysville woman through the Internet was found guilty Friday of stabbing her to death on Thanksgiving Day 2008, less than two months after moving in with her. Rex N. Wesley's first-degree murder conviction came after a three-day trial in Baltimore County Circuit Court and less than an hourlong deliberation by a jury. Prosecutor Stephen R. Roscher said Wesley was discovered standing over the body of Donna Jean Brown, 31, in the kitchen of her father's house in Randallstown, her body and head slashed and pierced by "scores" of wounds.

A man was being held Friday in the stabbing death of a 26-year-old acquaintance in Woodlawn. A Baltimore County police spokesman said the suspect would be charged with first-degree murder on Friday evening, and that the department would release both his name and that of the victim at that time. The spokesman, William Toohey, said the two men got into a fight shortly before 1:30 a.m. Friday outside an apartment building in the 3300 block of Aurora Lane. "We don't know what they were fighting about," Toohey said.

A Glen Burnie teenager was charged with murder after police found his mother dead with multiple stab wounds in a bedroom of their apartment, police said Wednesday. When police went to the apartment Tuesday afternoon after receiving a tip, the 17-year-old boy was in the living room, playing a video game, according to court records. He later told police that his mother had been dead since Monday, according to court records. William Joseph Skiratko, a junior at Old Mill High School, was arrested and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of Elizabeth Anne Skiratko, 45, Anne Arundel County police said.

Glen Burnie man faces charges in stabbing A Glen Burnie man was charged with attempted murder after a man was found with stab wounds early Sunday on Ritchie Highway, county police said. Officers from the county's Northern District answered a call to a home in the 7500 block of Ritchie Highway about 4:30 a.m., police said. The officers found the victim with stab wounds to the upper body. The victim, a 40-year-old man who lives in the 7500 block of Ritchie Highway, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, police said.

A Howard County jury acquitted a Baltimore man of attempted-murder charges yesterday but convicted him of assaulting his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in the same incident last year. Kazeem Akinniyi, 26, testified during his three-day trial that he was defending himself against Jefferson Bolden, whom police discovered with several serious stab wounds to the face, back and chest early Dec. 23. The jury convicted Akinniyi of second-degree assault and one count of reckless endangerment. He could be sentenced to 15 years in prison for the two convictions.

Fatal-stabbing count upgraded Charges against a Brooklyn Park man accused of stabbing his wife to death have been upgraded to first-degree murder by an Anne Arundel County grand jury. Soman Narayanan Thamby, 51, was arraigned Monday on the new charge, which was tacked on to second-degree murder and manslaughter charges he was facing in the May 5 death of Lesa Lynn Thamby. Prosecutors declined to discuss the case, but the charge can be applied in instances of premeditation. Warren A. Brown, Thamby's defense attorney, said the new evidence includes diary entries from Lesa Thamby's mother, which, he argued, can hardly be used as a window into Soman Thamby's mind.