Stabbing Death

Two Prince George's County men have been arrested and charged with fatally stabbing a Northwest Baltimore man last summer at the Inner Harbor.Keith and Kevin Scott, 23-year-old twins from Lanham, were arrested Tuesday night by the FBI fugitive task force, said Baltimore homicide Detective Robert L. Patton.The brothers were charged in the death of Martrelle Creighton, 20, who was stabbed in the neck about 2 a.m. July 20 after an argument between two groups of people in front of the Light Street Pavilion at Harborplace.

Baltimore police charged a man yesterday in the stabbing death two weeks ago of a 16-year-old East Baltimore girl who was dragged into a weedy, vacant lot as she walked with her best friend to a drug store.Malcolm Jabbar Bryant, 23, who has no known address, was charged with first-degree murder. Police said he was being held on an unrelated theft charge in the city detention center when he was served with the warrant.He is charged with the Nov. 20 stabbing of Toni Bullock, who lived near Johnston Square.

An Upper Marlboro man was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in the stabbing death of a Woodlawn woman whose 4-year-old daughter summoned neighbors for help, Baltimore County police said.Darryl James Medley, 29, was charged in the stabbing death Friday of Rae Antoinette Corpening, 31, in her two-story townhouse in Woodlawn, police said. He was being held without bail last night at the Baltimore County Detention Center.Police said Medley was the father of Corpening's 4-year-old daughter.

A 19-year-old Annapolis man was convicted of manslaughter yesterday for stabbing an acquaintance after a drug deal went sour.William A. Graham, of the 100 block of Crane's Crook Lane, could get up to 10 years when he is sentenced on June 24 by Anne Arundel Circuit Judge Raymond G. Thieme Jr.Graham could have been convicted of second-degree murder in the June 27, 1995, stabbing death of Michael Wilson David Jones, 17. That charge would have carried a...

A 12-year-old Northwest Baltimore boy was charged as a juvenile yesterday in the stabbing death of a 13-year-old boy during an argument Saturday, police said.The suspect, whose name was not disclosed because he is a minor, was charged with first-degree murder and possession of a deadly weapon, and is being held at Waxter Children's Center in Laurel, police said.Police said a boy and Devin Keyon Payne of the 2500 block of Oswego Ave. got into an argument on the boy's front porch, across the street from Devin's home, about 1: 35 p.m. Saturday.

A 19-year-old Annapolis man pleaded guilty in Anne Arundel Circuit Court yesterday to his role in the December stabbing death of a Florida woman in Annapolis.Tremayne Deon Howard, of the 7400 block of Edgewood Road, pleaded guilty before Judge Pamela L. North to second-degree murder in the death of Katherine Elizabeth Brodie, 34, of Miami Beach.He had been charged with first-degree murder. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors will recommend that Howard be given a 15-year term when he is sentenced Jan. 22.Second-degree murder carries a maximum 30-year term.

Baltimore police have charged a 17-year-old girl in the stabbing death of a woman Wednesday, and yesterday they identified a man shot to death in West Baltimore during a robbery attempt.LaQuanda McDuffie of the 600 block of N. Belnord Ave. was charged as an adult with first-degree murder and using a deadly weapon in the commission of a crime.The victim, Mary Francis Lee, 35, of the 900 block of N. Broadway was killed Wednesday afternoon during an quarrel in the basement of a rowhouse in the 2600 block of E. Monument St. Police said they did not know what the dispute was about.

A 44-year-old Jessup man, who served about four months in jail for stabbing his brother to death in July 1991, is accused of a crime spree earlier this year that included two armed hold-ups and knifing a man.Johnny Lee Mouzon of the 7300 block of Wye Avenue in Jessup is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center, charged with attempted first-degree murder and a variety of other crimes. Howard County District Court Judge James N. Vaughan yesterday postponed Mouzon's bond review hearing on the recent charges to give him time to consult with a lawyer.

Marylanders are far more likely to be killed while driving on the job, or slain by a co-worker or customer, than in an industrial accident, a study of workplace deaths has found.In its first extensive survey of fatal workplace accidents, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that one-third of the 79 workplace deaths in Maryland recorded in 1991 were caused by traffic accidents.Maryland's death-by-traffic-accident rate matched those of the 31 other states studied, but the homicide rate here was twice the average of the other states.

Prosecutors dropped charges yesterday against a Severna Park man accused of stabbing his girlfriend -- nine years after he was charged with killing his wife -- because the victim failed to show up for trial.But Bernard Day, 68, of the 100 block of McKinsey Road, will remain at Clifton T. Perkins Hospital indefinitely because the stabbing violated terms of his 1990 release from the hospital, said assistant state's attorney William Mulford II.Mr. Day was found not criminally responsible Feb. 2, 1987, in the stabbing death of his wife, Shirley Day, three years earlier and committed to state psychiatric facilities.

A man who had been charged with dousing his 85-year-old grandmother with alcohol and setting her on fire in an argument over money in March is now being charged with first-degree murder, three months after the woman died at a hospital, a Baltimore police spokesman said. Tyron Markit Mason, 29, of the 2800 block of Frederick Ave., had been charged with attempted murder. Ethel Henderson died June 17 in the burn unit of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The attack occurred about 5:20 p.m. on March 8, when police said Mason went to Henderson's home on Poplar Grove Street, demanded money and then set her on fire.

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 21-year-old man who police say is in the country illegally was arrested yesterday and charged in the stabbing death of a man last month in East Baltimore. Police also made an arrest in another fatal stabbing that occurred at a Hampden bar over the weekend. Eddy M. Castillo-Diaz, a native of Honduras who lists an address in the 100 block of N. Ellwood Ave., is charged with first-degree murder, assault and a weapons count in the death of Jose Escobar-Pena, who was stabbed in the abdomen just after 2 a.m. Feb. 22 in the 3500 block of Eastern Ave. Police arrested Lewis Brock, 27, of the 900 block of Bethune Road in an incident Sunday in which one man was killed and another injured.

A 17-year-old pleaded guilty yesterday to being an accessory after the fact in the stabbing death of a 15-year-old girl whose body was found by her mother last summer in her Southwest Baltimore home. Lloyd Chase of the 2100 block of McHenry St. faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison, prosecutors said. The victim, Christine Richardson, was killed July 10 in her home in the 300 block of S. Fulton Ave. She suffered multiple stab wounds and her throat was slashed after an argument, according to the city state's attorney's office.

Baltimore police arrested a 15-year-old boy in the stabbing death yesterday of his older brother inside an East Baltimore rowhouse, a department spokesman said. The youth was being questioned yesterday afternoon and had not been charged, said the spokesman, Officer Troy Harris. He did not identify the suspect or the slain youth, a 17-year-old. Harris said officers were called to a rowhouse in the 1100 block of N. Chester St., near Collington Square, about 10:20 a.m. and found the victim suffering from a stab wound to the side.

A 22-year-old man from Savage has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 39-year-old acquaintance outside a motel on U.S. 1 in Jessup on Wednesday. Adrian Maldonado was being held in the Howard County Detention Center yesterday awaiting a bail hearing, which is scheduled for Monday. He is accused of killing Marvin Walter Harding of Lincoln Drive in Jessup, who was found lying on a sidewalk with multiple stab wounds about 6 p.m. Harding was pronounced dead at Howard County General Hospital.

Anne Arundel County prosecutors will seek the death penalty for two prisoners charged in the stabbing death of a correctional officer inside the Maryland House of Correction in July, the county state's attorney announced yesterday. The decision was made after consulting with prosecutors, Maryland State Police investigators and the family of David McGuinn, the 42-year-old correctional officer who was killed the night of July 25. "The family is very supportive of the death penalty in this case," said State's Attorney Frank R. Weathersbee.

City police have obtained an arrest warrant charging Irvin Merritt, 46, of the 900 block of Bonaparte Ave. with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of his girlfriend, Fredericka Moseley, 46, in the 200 block of N. Bond St. on Feb. 16. Merritt -- who is being sought -- is known to frequent vacant dwellings in East Baltimore, police said. He is accused of stabbing Moseley in the neck during a violent struggle. Metro Crime Stoppers at 410-276-8888 is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment.

A Baltimore man was charged with first-degree murder yesterday in a stabbing death that police described as a case of mistaken identity. Stephan High, 22, of the 3000 block of Garrison Blvd., was arrested in the stabbing death of William Jerome Green III. Green, 19, of the 3600 block of Rockdale Terrace, was stabbed at Liberty and Old Court roads about 8:50 p.m. Oct. 12. He was hospitalized and died about a week later from his injuries. Police said Green was mistakenly thought to have been in a confrontation with one of High's friends.

A Carroll County man was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in the stabbing death of his former mother-in-law, who was a fixture on local talk radio known as "Helga from Westminster." Leon A. Costley Jr., 39, showed little emotion as Carroll County Circuit Judge Michael M. Galloway imposed the sentence. On the other side of the courtroom, the victim's husband, Robert V. Nicholls Sr., and their daughter, Kristina Costley, wrapped their arms around each other and cried.