Standoff

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Standoff -- After a three-hour standoff yesterday with a man who threatened to kill himself, police entered a house in the 3100 block of Gibbons Ave. in Northeast Baltimore about 10:15 p.m. and found the man dead from a self-inflicted bullet wound. The man's name was not released. About 7 p.m., the man's wife called police and said her husband was suicidal. She fled the house unhurt.

Baltimore County police shot and killed a 40-year-old Rodgers Forge woman in a bedroom of her house yesterday after she threatened officers with a rifle during a 12-hour standoff, police said.The shooting occurred at 4: 30 p.m.Police declined to say what prompted them to shoot the mother of two, identified as Tambra Eddinger. A preliminary investigation indicates that she was shot three times, twice in the chest and once in the shoulder, said Cpl. Douglas Irwin, on duty last night in the department's communications unit.

Baltimore County police shot and killed a 40-year-old Rodgers Forge woman in a bedroom of her home yesterday after she threatened officers with a rifle during a 12-hour standoff, police said.Police refused to discuss the circumstances of the shooting of Tambra W. Eddinger, a mother of two. A preliminary investigation indicates that she was shot twice in the chest and once in the shoulder, said Cpl. Douglas Irwin, on duty in the department's communications unit.Said police spokeswoman Vickie Warehime: "[Eddinger]

The Baltimore County tactical police officer who shot and killed a Rodgers Forge woman during a 12-hour standoff last month will not face criminal charges, a county deputy State's Attorney said yesterday.Prosecutor Sue A. Schenning said an investigation by the county police department's homicide unit and by the State's Attorney's office concluded that Officer Robert O. Jones, "was completely justified in firing his weapon" at 40-year-old Tambra W. Eddinger, when she barricaded herself in her bedroom with a rifle Sept.

A six-hour standoff between state police and an Aberdeen man ended peacefully last night when troopers rushed the man's home and found him alone and unarmed.A 45-year-old man was being held for psychiatric evaluation last night after he called 911 several times and said there were bodies in his home in the 200 block of Poclain Road in Aberdeen, according to Detective Sgt. Jeffrey McCormack.When the man repeatedly failed to respond to requests to come out of the house, tactical officers rushed through the front door about 7: 30 p.m. and found him unarmed and unhurt.

A man who shot a Baltimore police officer attempting to serve an arrest warrant early yesterday apparently shot himself to death during a standoff in the northwest part of the city, police said.The officer, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was treated at Sinai Hospital and released.The discovery about 11 a.m. of the body in the second-floor bedroom of a home in the 5300 block of Cordelia Ave., near Pimlico Race Course, ended a six-hour standoff during which police evacuated some residents of the street and ordered others to remain in their homes.

THE annual A. D. Emmart Award ceremony for published writing in the humanities is on Sunday afternoon's calendar -- the 25th such event. To be eligible, articles must have appeared within the previous year in a general-circulation newspaper or magazine published in Maryland, and be by a Maryland resident. The word "humanities" is broadly construed (though arithmetic is out, apart from the prize: $1,000).It is just one of those things that this year's winning entry, from an April issue of City Paper, is about another newspaper, the Baltimore Afro-American.

Ending a standoff of several hours, Baltimore County police fired tear gas into a Dundalk-area home, then burst in last night and found the body of a man who apparently shot himself.The body of Joseph Carnahan, 41, of the 8000 block of Wallace Road in Charlesmont was found about 11: 20 p.m., police said.Police said the standoff began after Carnahan allegedly shot his wife, Christine, in the upper torso in the back yard about 5: 10 p.m., then locked himself in the house. Carnahan was arrested Saturday after assaulting his wife but returned to their home yesterday after posting $3,500 bond, police said.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland -- How could this happen in the wake of a peace deal? That is the question that now shadows Northern Ireland.This was supposed to be the summer when the province enjoyed a peace dividend. The tourists were due back. Businesses were poised for a boom. A new local Assembly was up and running, prepared to deal with the delicate task of implementing a historic peace accord designed to bridge religious and cultural divisions.But the summer of hope has been transformed into a summer of shame and rage.

A man was arrested last night after barricading himself in his girlfriend's rowhouse near St. John's College in Annapolis and holding police at bay in an hourlong standoff, city police said.The incident began about 5: 30 p.m., when officers were called to the house in the first block of Calvert St. Police detoured traffic from Rowe Boulevard and Calvert Street.Police said that it was not clear what prompted the incident. No one was injured, and officers had responded to previous disputes at the house, police said.

City man charged with sexual solicitation of minor A Baltimore man was arrested Wednesday and charged with sexual solicitation of a minor after authorities say he agreed to meet in a hotel room with someone he thought would be a 12-year-old girl. Shawn R. Walker, 26, of the 1500 block of Olmstead St. engaged in an online dialogue with an undercover detective he believed was a minor and arranged a meeting at a Baltimore County hotel for sex, according to police. Walker went to the hotel with a duffel bag containing condoms, straps and a blindfold and was arrested, police said.

Woman who died in crash on I-95 is identified The woman who died Wednesday after the tractor-trailer driven by her husband crashed on northbound Interstate 95 near Washington Boulevard and burst into flames has been identified as Diana Roser, 63, of DeLand, Fla., said a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Cpl. Robert Thibodeau, the spokesman, said the rig was being driven by Dennis Roser, 63, when it became involved in a collision with several other vehicles and jackknifed.

One man was shot yesterday afternoon during what police said was a "home-invasion robbery gone very, very bad" in Harlem Park, and police took a gunman into custody after a standoff that lasted more than four hours. About 2:30 p.m., members of the Police Department's organized crime division were patrolling in the 1700 block of Harlem Ave. when they heard shooting coming from a three-story rowhouse. They saw a man who had been shot multiple times and several other people outside the house, said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Western Robbery -- Police were seeking two men who took a cell phone, $6 and other property from two other men as they stood in the 1400 block of N. Fulton Ave. on Monday night. The victims reported that two men got out of a Dodge Stratus shortly before midnight, and that one man asked if they had any marijuana. They said that one of the men then implied he was armed with a handgun and ordered them to give up their money and property.

Sept. 10 1963 20 black students entered Alabama public schools after a standoff between federal authorities and Gov. George C. Wallace.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Standoff -- After a three-hour standoff yesterday with a man who threatened to kill himself, police entered a house in the 3100 block of Gibbons Ave. in Northeast Baltimore about 10:15 p.m. and found the man dead from a self-inflicted bullet wound. The man's name was not released. About 7 p.m., the man's wife called police and said her husband was suicidal. She fled the house unhurt.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Fears deepened yesterday about the fate of hostages reportedly being held by Islamic militants inside a besieged radical mosque in the heart of the capital. As Pakistani troops encircled the Red Mosque for a fifth day, the cleric in charge declared that he hoped that the standoff, which has left at least two dozen people dead, would help trigger an Islamic revolution in Pakistan. It was not clear how many people were inside the mosque complex, which contains two madrassas, or seminaries, with an enrollment of about 5,000 students.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A six-month standoff between Pakistani authorities and followers of two radical clerics erupted yesterday into a shootout in the heart of the capital that left at least nine people dead. The confrontation at the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, coincides with a political crisis that has left the president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, with a precarious grip on power. Adding to the chaos, record flooding over the past week in the country's south has driven hundreds of thousands from their homes.

Howard County: Columbia Police standoff ends in two arrests A standoff between two robbery suspects and police ended with authorities arresting the pair yesterday afternoon. Police said the two suspects - identified as 19-year-old Devon Dixon and a 17-year-old boy - ran into Dixon's Columbia home in the 8800 block of Hayshed Lane after a street robbery. The victim - who was not identified - told police he was approached by two robbers who implied having a weapon and demanded his cell phone.

MOSCOW -- Authorities in southern Russia were warned of a possible attack on a school a day before 1,128 hostages were seized at a school in Beslan but took no preventive measures even though the attackers were camped near a road and made no attempt to hide, a parliament commission reported yesterday. The panel accused local police of "neglect and carelessness" in failing to prevent the attack, but the findings drew immediate criticism from survivors of the siege because they absolved senior federal officials and agencies from responsibility for the worst terrorist attack in Russian history.