Stabbing Death

A 32-year-old man has been charged with the stabbing death of a 53-yeaar-old East Baltimore woman, police said yesterday.Douglas R. Ross was arrested at his home in the 1300 block of North Luzerne Street Thursday night and charged with first-degree murder, police said.The body of Gladys Berry was found in her home in the 2600 block of East Oliver Street by her son when he returned home about 6 a.m. Thursday.Detectives said the victim apparently was stabbed to death as she confronted a burglar who also had broken into her house the day before.

A prominent Ellicott City blogger and businessman was stabbed to death by his daughter's 19-year-old boyfriend, who plotted with the 14-year-old girl to kill him so the two could run away together, Howard County police said Friday. Dennis Lane, 58, was found before dawn in his Winding Ross Way home. Police charged Jason Anthony Bulmer and Morgan Lane Arnold, both students at Mount Hebron High School, as adults in his killing; they both face conspiracy and murder counts. Both were held without bail, according to online court records.

Baltimore homicide detectives are searching for a motive in the stabbing death of a young woman whose badly decomposed body was found Saturday in her northeast Baltimore apartment.Police said yesterday that the body has been tentatively identified as that of Gail Morton, 26, who lived in the apartment in the 5900 block of Radecke Ave.Agent Arlene Jenkins, a police spokeswoman, said fingerprints will be used to make a positive identification.The body was discovered about 1:45 p.m. by police officers investigating a complaint of a foul odor coming from the apartment.

Sitting alone at the edge of the parking lot outside Baltimore's 24-hour homeless shelter, Robin Bolden watched the dozens gathered nearby Saturday to remember her husband, Dana, who was stabbed to death at the facility earlier this month. Tears stained her face while she listened to Tony Simmons call on the homeless individuals and activists assembled to demand city leaders step up plans to find permanent homes for the more than 4,000 men, women and children who sleep outside and in shelters every night.

Baltimore police yesterday were investigating the death of a 19-year-old man who was found stabbed several times in the chest after an argument in a house in the 3900 block of Edgewood Ave. in West Baltimore. Tavon Rice, who police said was a Northwest Baltimore resident, was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he died early yesterday. Another man, Damien Green, 22, also suffered stab wounds in the fight, and was treated at the hospital and released. Investigators had not made any arrests as of last night.

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.

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 31-year-old former homeless man pleaded guilty to murder and was referred to a state mental hospital for the killing of a 57-year-old former roommate in August 2000. Vladislav N. Filatov, who has a history of psychiatric problems, was found by Judge Clifton J. Gordy on Friday to be not criminally responsible for the stabbing death of Richard F. Kondner, an interior designer, in a condominium on East University Parkway near the Johns Hopkins University. Filatov also pleaded guilty to attempted murder for stabbing but not killing another former roommate, Michael A. Jordan.

University of Maryland, Eastern Shore officials on Monday said state police are investigating assertions that campus officers took an extended period of time to respond to the fatal stabbing of a student during homecoming weekend. Edmond A. St. Clair, 21, of Severn was stabbed on the Princess Anne campus Saturday night. St. Clair's family has said that it took too long for police to help him and that the assailants lingered at the scene after the stabbing. Campus spokesman Bill Robinson said state police are constructing a timeline.

A 20-year-old woman was stabbed to death in Baltimore on Thursday, hours before a man, considered a "person of interest" in her killing, was found dead from an apparent suicide in Baltimore County, police said. Police said Thursday evening that it was too early in the investigation to know whether the deaths were the result of a murder-suicide, but are investigating what connections exist between the man and woman. City police responded to the 200 block of Atholgate Lane in the city's Ten Hills neighborhood about 12:30 p.m. after a 911 caller requested help and found the woman unresponsive and "suffering from what appeared to be multiple stab wounds" inside a home, said Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman.

A Harford County Circuit Court jury Wednesday found Terrence Daryell Wanzer, 22, guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Thomas Burdsall Jr., 16, on Jan. 8, 2011 at the victim's home on Edmund Street in Aberdeen. The jury deliberated about an hour before reaching its verdict, Harford County State's Attorney Joseph Cassilly said in a news release announcing the conviction. According to evidence presented by Deputy State's Attorney Diana Brooks in the three-day trial, Wanzer, of the first block of Aberdeen Avenue, who was 20 at the time, had been at the victim's residence along with three other young people, playing video games and socializing.

City police are investigating a fatal stabbing Monday in the Broadway East neighborhood. Officers responded at 3:37 p.m. to the 1800 block of North Rutland Ave., where they found an unidentified man lying in the street and bleeding from his chest.The victim, who is listed as a John Doe, died at 4:24 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Mary.gail.hare@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

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.

The killing of a woman in a Dewey Beach motel room this month appears to have been the result of a violent murder-suicide. Danielle Mehlman, 26, of Bensalem, Pa., was found dead about 10:45 a.m June 18 by a maid at the Atlantic Oceanside Motel in the 1700 block of Coastal Highway, which cuts through the center of the small Delaware vacation town north of Ocean City . A medical examiner has since ruled her death a homicide, caused by...

If it takes the proverbial village to raise a child, it takes that same village to protect the elderly. Where was Mary Hines' village from July 2011, when her electricity was turned off, until her body was discovered, stabbed, in her burning rowhouse on Jan. 5, 2012? The 84-year old retired teacher was found murdered in a burning house and left for firefighters to clean up the ashes of her human tragedy. If the financially burdened widow were as beloved and as respected by family, neighbors and church leaders as has been reported, did this "village" observe her darkened home and her inability to refrigerate and cook nutritious meals for seven months without a twinge of guilt?

Willie Daniels, a 33-year-old Baltimore man, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison, with all but 30 years of the term suspended, for the stabbing death of a Washington man outside a bar last year, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced. On a Sunday night in August, Daniels followed Alfred Garner Jr., a 35-year-old information technology professional, out of the Ibis Tavern on the 6000 block of Harford Road and attacked him from behind, according to the prosecutors office.