Unidentified Man

An unidentified man was fatally shot early yesterday in West Baltimore in the latest homicide reported by city police. The victim was found about 2:30 a.m. with multiple wounds in the 1800 block of W. Baltimore St. and was pronounced dead at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman. Police also released yesterday the identity of a vendor who was shot to death Saturday night. Dwight Evans, 32, of no fixed address, was shot in his shop in the rear of Evans Temple Memorial Church of God in the 2400 block of E. Madison St. about 7 p.m. Saturday, Harris said.

THE COUNT People murdered since Jan. 1: 157 THE VICTIMS Paul Cornish, 28, address unknown, died at Johns Hopkins Hospital at 10:30 p.m. Saturday after he was shot at 9 p.m. in the 1000 block of Granby St. in East Baltimore. An unidentified man was fatally shot at 2:30 a.m. yesterday as he stood with a group of people in the 800 block of N. Patterson Park Ave. in East Baltimore. The body of an unidentified man was found slouched over the steering wheel of an idling car at 7:20 a.m. yesterday in the 4800 block of Herring Run Drive in Northeast Baltimore.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 225 THE VICTIM An unidentified man in his 40s was found dead of blunt-force injuries Saturday under a bridge in Hampden. Police are treating his death as a homicide. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 199 homicides as of Sept. 23, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides are at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap.

THE COUNT Homicides since Jan. 1: 202 THE VICTIM An unidentified man was shot shortly after midnight while at the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee, which ended up in a backyard pool in West Baltimore. Police said he was an apparent robbery victim. LAST YEAR: Baltimore had recorded 176 homicides as of Aug. 25, 2006. ONLINE: Details and locations of this year's city homicides at baltimoresun.com/homicidemap.

After stopping a van for speeding on southbound Interstate 95 in Jessup yesterday, state troopers searched the vehicle and reported finding several pounds of suspected semisolid marijuana and hashish oil worth several thousand dollars.Three Florida men were arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance, police said. Tfc. Clifford Hughes of the Waterloo barracks, who was driving an unmarked patrol vehicle, said he paced the 1986 Chevrolet van with Florida tags at 77 mph in a 65-mph zone and stopped it about 8: 30 a.m.He said he became suspicious when he noticed that there was no luggage in the van and when the men gave conflicting information about their trip to New York.

The body of an unidentified man was found last night in a vacant East Baltimore rowhouse, police said.Police said a man flagged down an officer and told him a body was on the upper floor of a nearby two-story dwelling in the 1700 block of E. North Ave.Police said the man appeared to have been dead for longer than a day, and no visible signs of foul play were on the body.The death was ruled suspicious pending an autopsy.Pub Date: 1/29/99

The Aberdeen Police Department and Harford County Sheriff's Office are investigating the death of an unidentified man, whose body was found early yesterday in the parking lot of the Getty Mart convenience store at West Bel Air and Mount Royal avenues.Police said they were awaiting a report from the state medical examiner's office on the cause and time of death.Police responding to a call about a man lying on the ground and in possible need of assistance found the body shortly before 7 a.m.Pub Date: 3/08/99

The body of an unidentified man whose hands were bound behind him was found yesterday afternoon in a shed in the rear of a vacant West Baltimore rowhouse. Police have ruled the death a homicide.Lt. Ben Lieu of the homicide squad said pedestrians in the rear of the 1700 block of N. Carey St. noticed the body in the backyard shed at about 1 p.m.Lieu said a preliminary autopsy showed the man died from blunt force trauma to the upper body and that he had been dead for several hours.Police believe the man was killed elsewhere and his body was dumped into the shed late Monday night or early yesterday morning.

Two people were killed and one person seriously injured during three separate incidents last night in Baltimore.Shortly before 5 p.m., an unidentified man was shot four times at the corner of Monroe and Baker 6streets in West Baltimore. The victim drove himself to the emergency entrance of Liberty Medical Center, which closed in August. Paramedics rushed him by ambulance to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was in critical condition last night.A half-hour later in Northeast Baltimore, police found a 21-year-old man shot in the head in the 3500 block of Cliftmont Ave. The man, discovered in a parked sport utility vehicle, was dead at the scene and his body might have been in the vehicle for 24 hours, according to police.

In Baltimore CityHopkins to offer students inoculations for flu, meningitisThe Johns Hopkins University is offering students at the school's Homewood campus inoculations today against meningococcal meningitis and influenza. No outbreak of meningitis has been reported at Hopkins and the shots are preventive.Shots will be given in the Clipper Room of Shriver Hall and the reading room of Alumni Memorial Residence One between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. The cost is $75 for the meningitis vaccine and $10 for the flu shot.

Unidentified man shot and killed in Baltimore An unidentified man was shot and killed Thursday afternoon in the 100 block of S. Highland Ave., according to Baltimore police. The man was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and pronounced dead shortly after arrival, police said. No arrests have been made. - Brent Jones Man guilty in arson deaths of girlfriend's daughters A Hancock man has pleaded guilty in Hagerstown to two counts of felony murder in the arson deaths of his girlfriend's adolescent daughters.

A 39-year-old man was fatally shot in the head about 12:30 a.m. Friday in Southwest Baltimore, one of four shootings during the city's most violent night since the spate of shootings last weekend, according to police. The man, identified as Lamont Woodard, was shot several times and found on the ground surrounded by a crowd of people next to the driver's side of a vehicle in the 500 block of E. Lynn Ave., where he lived, police said. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and pronounced dead at 1 a.m. According to court records, Woodard was convicted of first-degree murder in 1989 and sentenced to 30 years in prison with five years suspended.

Baltimore police said four people were shot, two fatally, last night in the northwestern part of the city. Police responding to a report of multiple shootings at 10:20 p.m. in the 4000 block of Oakford Ave. found a man and a woman in a car suffering from gunshot wounds, according to Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. Another man who had been shot was found lying in the street. All three were taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where the male victims were pronounced dead. A fourth shooting victim was found in the vicinity and was taken to Sinai Hospital.

City, Balto. Co. police probe separate deaths Baltimore City and Baltimore County police were investigating separate deaths. County police said they found the body of an unidentified man in a parked vehicle at Sparks Valley and York roads in Hunt Valley about 3 p.m. yesterday. The man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police are calling the death suspicious. In the city, an unidentified man was shot in the head in the 2800 block of Saint Lo Drive, near Lake Clifton High School, about 6:30 p.m. yesterday, police said.

Anne Arundel County homicide detectives are investigating the beating of an unidentified man who was hospitalized in critical condition with life-threatening injuries yesterday. Police said that about 4:50 a.m. Tuesday, a man flagged down police on routine patrol in the Pioneer City area near Fort Meade and said he had been beaten and robbed after leaving a friend's house. He added that as he left the house, he saw a man on the ground. The man led police to the victim, who was unresponsive, police said.

An unidentified man was fatally shot last night on a street in Fells Point, police said. Details were not available, but police said the man was found shot in the 200 block of S. Broadway near Gough Street shortly after 9 p.m. by Southeastern District police officers responding to a report of a shooting. The man was pronounced dead at the scene by Fire Department medics. Metro Crime Stoppers at 410-276-8888 is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and an indictment in the slaying.

GARRETT PARK - An unidentified man was struck and killed yesterday morning by a CSX freight train traveling between Rockville and Silver Spring, a spokesman for the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service said. Pete Piringer, the spokesman, said the man was seen on the tracks about 6:20 a.m., 1,000 feet from the Garrett Park metro station, when he was struck. The train came to a stop moments later, Piringer said. He said CSX and MARC train service was delayed for about two hours while railroad and county police investigated the apparent accident.

Police have arrested a Canton couple in the killing of an unidentified man whose burned body was found Sunday in a townhouse development in Middle River, authorities said. Edward G. Palmer, 58, of the 600 block of N. Clinton St. was being held without bail on a first-degree murder charge last night at the Baltimore City Detention Center. His wife, Catherine Palmer, 46, was waiting to see a District Court commissioner and was expected to be charged, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore state's attorney's office said.

A man was found shot to death yesterday morning in East Baltimore, police said. The unidentified man was shot in the head in the 1600 block of E. Federal St. about 10 a.m., said Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman. The man was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police said they had no suspects.

Man was shot, autopsy shows The autopsy of an unidentified man whose body was found yesterday morning in an abandoned West Baltimore rowhouse showed the man had been shot, and his death has been ruled a homicide, a Police Department spokesman said yesterday. It was the city's third homicide this year as of yesterday, compared with 10 for the same time last year, according to police records. About 8:30 a.m., Southwestern District police responding to a call entered a house in the 3000 block of W. North Ave. in the Walbrook community and found the man's body, said Officer Troy Harris, the spokesman.