Stabbing Death

A 45-year-old man was stabbed to death Wednesday evening in the Northwest Baltimore neighborhood of Central Park Heights, city police said. The stabbing occurred about 8:30 p.m. in an apartment in the 3500 block of Woodland Ave., police said Thursday. The victim, identified as Christopher Gilliam, was stabbed in the neck, torso and thigh, and died at 9:21 p.m. at Sinai Hospital. Police said a woman was taken into custody, and described her as a person of interest, but said no charges have been filed as the investigation continues.

Baltimore County Police arrested a Parkville man on Sunday on murder charges after, according to police accounts, a dispute between him and another man resulted in a fatal stabbing. Vincent Garnett Forney, 44, of the 1700 block of Forrest Avenue, in Parkville, was charged with first-degree murder on Aug. 21 after Forney, police said, stabbed Jamari Davon Mathis, 38, of the 4000 block of Ridgecroff Road, in Baltimore City, on Saturday night. According to a police report, Forney was at a neighbor's house on Forrest Avenue having dinner with a female resident when Mathis arrived at the location.

Baltimore County police have charged a man with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of another man during an argument over the weekend. Vincent Garnett Forney, 44, of the 1700 block of Forrest Ave. in Parkville was visiting a female friend in the same block Saturday night when Jamari Davon Mathis arrived and there was an altercation, said Detective Cathy Batton. Police say that Forney stabbed Mathis, 38, of the 4000 block of Ridgecroft Road in Baltimore, she said. Police said Mathis tried to drive away in his 2008 Honda Accord but crashed in the woods about five houses away.

Violence erupted in separate locations of the Inner Harbor Monday night despite a heavy police presence for the holiday, with a child shot in the leg and a man fatally stabbed shortly after the fireworks ended. They marked the second and third violent events downtown Monday — a significant disappointment for the city Police Department, which had coordinated an elaborate July Fourth safety plan that involved several hundred state and city officers patrolling Baltimore's streets, monitoring surveillance cameras and tracking one another via GPS signals.

A woman and her son have been charged in the killing of a 46-year-old man whose body was found in an alley in the Barclay community last week, Baltimore police announced Thursday. Homicide detectives said Patricia Tucker and Reginald Wragg were arguing in her apartment in the 2100 block of Barclay St. when Tucker stabbed Wragg several times. Police say she then asked her son, Gavin Jenkins, to help her move the body out of the home. Wragg's body was found about 7:30 a.m. in an alley in the same block, police said last week.

A teenager was shot in the stomach Saturday night after he exchanged words with the driver and passengers of a vehicle in downtown Baltimore, near St. Paul and Lexington streets shortly after 10 p.m. Detective Kevin Brown, a police spokesman, said the 16-year-old victim and a friend were walking on St. Paul Street when the car passed them. After the exchange of words, the driver stopped the vehicle and he and his passengers got out of the car. One of the men produced a handgun and opened fire on the two men on the sidewalk, striking one of them, according to Brown.

Maryland State Police are investigating the stabbing death of a Westminster man found early Saturday. The victim is identified as Steven R. Hobson, 40, of the unit-block of Main Street, according to police. Shortly before 2:30 a.m., Westminster Police responded to a 911 call from a building in the unit-block of East Main Street. Officers found the victim in an apartment in the residential and commercial building. Responding medics pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

The couple accused of stabbing Johns Hopkins researcher Stephen Pitcairn to death as he walked home along St. Paul Street last month is scheduled to be arraigned on murder, assault and robbery charges Sept. 24. A city grand jury indicted Lavelva Merritt, 24, and John A. Wagner, 34, both of the 2600 block of Maryland Ave., last week, the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced over the weekend. They have been held without bail since late July. Pitcairn, 23, had visited his sister in New York and was walking home from Penn Station to his Charles Village apartment July 25, about 11 p.m. He was talking to his mother on his cell phone when two robbers, alleged to be Wagner and Merritt, demanded cash and stabbed him in the chest.

The man who witnessed Stephen Pitcairn's last breaths was too afraid to give his name. Hours after the stabbing late Sunday, he stood where he found the victim lying face down on St. Paul Street, the pavement still stained even though the blood had been washed away. A lone blue surgical glove lay in the gutter. Twenty feet away, blood had pooled in a crevice, mixing with leaves and covering an empty potato chip bag. The man who held Pitcairn's hand covered his mouth and said he was seeking help for himself from his parish priest.