Teen

An unidentified teen drowned Saturday near a Dundalk park The name, age and home address of the youth were being withheld pending notification of next of kin, Baltimore County police said. Baltimore County Emergency Medical Services director Kyrle Preis said the young man was pulled from the water by members of a dive team from the Middle River Volunteer Ambulance Rescue Company. The county Fire Department received a call at 11:36 a.m. about a teenager missing in the water off Inverness Park, according to Preis.

Baltimore police are searching for a man who allegedly took a photograph of a 15-year-old girl in an Inner Harbor bathroom last month by sticking his camera phone underneath her stall. Police said on April 17, the girl noticed someone taking her picture from under the stall, and called out to the person, thinking it was a friend. After she did so, "an unknown male told her he was just messing with his phone," police said. The girl then ran out of the bathroom, police said.

A 15-year-old boy died Tuesday afternoon after he drowned in the Patuxent River in Lothian, officials said. The teen's name will not be released until Wednesday, pending family notification, said Steve Thompson, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The teen dived into the river near Route 408, near Wayson's Trailer Park just before 4 p.m., Thompson said. Fire officials conducted a search for about an hour and a half, using boats, divers and a helicopter, Thompson said.

A fight among a group of teenagers and one man Wednesday afternoon at the Upton Metro Station sent two people to the hospital and closed the station for about three hours, according to Maryland Transit Administration Police. The fight caused chaos in the station, as the teens threw yellow cones, a mop and a trash can at the man as they moved through the station, according to Sharon Allen, an Upton resident who witnessed parts of the fight. "It was pandemonium, so you really didn't know what was going on," Allen said.

A teenager was stabbed as police struggled to disperse a large group of young people who converged downtown Monday evening, Baltimore police said. The teenager, who was injured shortly before 10 p.m. near the intersection of Gay and Fayette Streets, was taken to a nearby hospital with non life-threatening injuries, said Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. She did not know the victim's age or gender. A least 100 teenagers roamed the streets near the Inner Harbor, City Hall, the Convention Center and the First Mariner Arena for more than two hours as police used megaphones to order them to leave.

Baltimore County police have identified the teenager killed Saturday when he was hit by a car as Michael Thomas Trulock, 13, a student at Parkville Middle School. According to police, the teen was traveling in a vehicle that was making a left turn from a parking lot in the 8300 block of Harford Road onto southbound Harford Road. In the middle of the turn, he opened the passenger-side door and began vomiting and then fell from the vehicle. It was at this point, police said, that the teenager was hit by another vehicle, which was traveling north on Harford Road.

The case of a 14-year-old Baltimore boy, who allegedly confessed to beating his grandmother with a hammer this spring, will be heard in juvenile court. Hassanhii Garrett had been charged as an adult with attempted murder in the attack, which police said occurred after he became enraged while getting ready for school one morning. He was scheduled for trial Monday, but online court records show that the case was remanded to juvenile court on Aug. 1. Under state law, teens 14 and older who are accused of certain violent crimes must be charged as adults from the outset.

A teen was killed in a Westminster car crash Thursday night, state police said. The 18-year-old man was killed at about 7:30 p.m. at Route 482 near Leisters Church Road, police said. Police have not released the teen's name pending family notification. Roads were shut down in both directions for about three hours while the state police crash team investigated the accident. No additional details were available Thursday. jkanderson@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the chest in Aberdeen on Saturday night, police said. Officers from the Aberdeen Police Department were called at about 7:30 p.m. to the 200 block of Edmund St., where they found the injured teen, police said. He was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace. Police did not have an update on his condition Saturday night. Police are searching for two men and two women who may have fled the scene. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-272-2121.

A 13-year-old was struck and killed by a vehicle on Harford Road near Texas Avenue in Parkville Saturday night, police said. Police were dispatched to the scene of the accident at 6:15 p.m., according to Baltimore County Police. No other information about the accident was available Saturday night. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Teens learn on YouTube to make the "bombs" with a few cheap, household items, then travel in groups late at night — eager to hear the boom, laugh with friends and gauge whatever damage they've wrought. According to Lt. Carlton Saunders of Howard County's office of the fire marshal, teenagers consider it a prank when they experiment with "bottle bombs," which have been found over the years in counties all across the Baltimore region. The explosions are rarely associated with damage greater than a busted mailbox, and are even more rarely associated with injuries, Saunders said.

For the past few years, Lara DiPaola has come home from her job in marketing and started her second job, as an unofficial translator for her 13-year-old-daughter, Katie. Like many teens, Katie speaks in abbrevs — shortened or combined versions of words or phrases, popular in text messages and on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. It's up to DiPaola to fill in the missing letters. "I'd say to my daughter, 'Katie, where did you leave the blow-dryer?' and she'd respond, 'IDK,'" said DiPaola, who lives in Severn.

With a full math and science scholarship to the Johns Hopkins University and accolades for his writing, Howard County's Mohammad Hassan Khalid seemed ready to continue the American dream his father embarked on years ago when he brought the family from Pakistan. But instead, on Friday the 18-year-old Khalid became one of the youngest people ever convicted in federal court of conspiracy to aid terrorists. He could receive up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine at his sentencing, which has not been scheduled.

The guilty verdict against one of two brothers accused of beating a Northwest Baltimore teen cuts through the conflicting accounts of what happened on Fallstaff Road nearly 18 months ago and arrives at an essential truth: When Eliyahu Werdesheim stepped out of his car and confronted Corey Ausby, he stopped being a volunteer on neighborhood patrol and became a vigilante. No matter whose account of the incident you believe, it is clear that he overstepped his bounds. Neighborhood patrols serve a valuable purpose, and Shomrim, the organization to which Eliyahu Werdesheim belonged at the time, has long been lauded for its efforts in Northwest Baltimore.

Eliyahu Werdesheim, one of two brothers accused of assaulting a teenager in Northwest Baltimore, was convicted Thursday of false imprisonment and second-degree assault, in a case that has sparked neighborhood tensions and raised questions about a community patrol group. The second brother, Avi Werdesheim, was cleared of all charges. Eliyahu, 24, and Avi, 22, each had been charged with second-degree assault, false imprisonment and carrying a deadly weapon — a walkie-talkie issued by the neighborhood watch group Shomrim — with the intent to injure Corey Ausby, who was 15 at the time.

The judge presiding over the trial of two brothers accused of assaulting a teen in Northwest Baltimore plans to give her ruling in the case Thursday afternoon. Baltimore Circuit Judge Pamela J. White has heard a week of arguments in the bench trial of Eliyahu Werdesheim, 24, and his brother, Avi Werdesheim, 22. After the prosecutor and defense attorneys completed their closing statements Wednesday afternoon, White told them that she expects to issue her verdict at 3 p.m. Thursday.

A 14-year-old girl from Pylesville was killed by a vehicle while she was crossing Harkins Road Thursday afternoon, Maryland State Police said in a statement. The girl was hit by a sport utility vehicle shortly after 3:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Harkins Road, near the intersection of Amos Mill and W. Heaps roads. The accident was several miles south of the Maryland-Pennsylvania border. The driver of the SUV, who was not hurt in the accident, has been identified and is a Pylesville resident, according to an initial investigation by police.

Baltimore County police are searching for the driver of a white sports-utility vehicle that did not stop after striking a 15-year-old Dundalk boy riding his bike on the shoulder of North Point Boulevard early Saturday morning. The boy, Jason Watson, suffered severe injuries after the vehicle swerved into the west shoulder of the roadway's southbound lanes and struck him at 12:17 a.m. Saturday, police said. Watson was rushed to Maryland Shock Trauma, where he remained in stable condition Tuesday night.

Prosecutors alleged Friday that the 28-year-old man charged with murdering Phylicia Barnes asphyxiated the teenager in her sister's Northwest Baltimore apartment, and then moved her body using a 35-gallon plastic tub. Michael Maurice Johnson, the ex-boyfriend of Phylicia's older half-sister, was seen by a neighbor sweating and struggling to move a container from the apartment, Assistant State's Attorney Lisa Goldberg said at a hearing while arguing...