Stabbing Death

A jury convicted a Pasadena youth yesterday of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a Glen Burnie man who authorities said had been a gang leader. Andrew Grant Handschuh, 17, was tried as an adult for his role in the stabbing death in August of Mark Anthony Miller. The jury, which deliberated for six hours, also convicted him on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and being an accessory after the fact, according to the Anne Arundel County state's attorney's office. Handschuh is one of five defendants charged in the killing.

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.

A 31-year-old Union Bridge man is being held without bond at the Carroll County Detention Center in the stabbing death of a Finksburg manduring an argument over a pool game early Friday morning.State police in Westminster arrested Donald Allen McCall about an hour afterthe 1:45 a.m. slaying and charged him with first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter, assault and battery, and carrying a deadly weapon.The stabbing death of Roger Lee Childers, 24, of the 2500 block of Lawndale Road, was the first slaying in Carroll this year.

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 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 32-year-old Union Bridge man faces up to 10 years in prison following his conviction on manslaughter and battery charges in the stabbing death of a Finksburg man during a street fight.Donald Allen McCall of Main Street also was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the Feb. 8 stabbing death of Roger Lee Childers, 24, of the 2500 block of Lawndale Road.After deliberating 3 1/2 hours, the Carroll Circuit Court jury onWednesday found McCall not guilty of the murder charges.In finding McCall guilty of manslaughter -- a killing without clear premeditation or malice -- the jury rejected his claim that he stabbed Childers in self-defense.

In Anne Arundel Police search for suspect in fatal stabbing of man, 22 HANOVER - Police were searching yesterday for a 32-year- old Severn man charged in the stabbing death of a man whose body was found last week at an Anne Arundel County business park. James Edward Belcher of the 1800 block of Arwell Court was charged in a warrant with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Michael Todd Jefferson Jr., 22, also of the 1800 block of Arwell Court, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday.

A 27-year-old maintenance man, charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a sales clerk, is being held without bail at an undisclosed location.A police spokesman said last night the lockup where accused slayer Robert Patrick Lipinski, of the first block of Oakwood Road Dundalk, is being held will not be revealed to the public."We have our reasons to withhold the location where the suspect is being detained and where today's bail review hearing will be held," said spokesman E. Jay Miller.

Parolee is suspect in woman's stabbing deathBALTIMORE -- A man recently paroled for murder is being sought by police in Friday's stabbing death of an East Baltimore woman, who was found near a trash bin.Leonard Harris, 32, is charged in a warrant with first-degree murder in the slaying of Sheila Venable, 24, of the 2100 block of Odell Ave.Harris was living with Ms. Venable at the time of her death; the two were roommates but were not romantically involved, police...

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.