Unidentified Man

An unidentified man was shot to death yesterday in a house in Northwest Baltimore, police said.Officers responding to a report of a shooting entered the house in the 2800 block of W. Cold Spring Lane about 11: 45 a.m. and found a body in the living room. The man had been shot at least once, police said.Police said the victim, in his 20s, was not a resident of the house. They were trying to identify him through fingerprints.Pub Date: 2/04/99

An unidentified man with gunshot wounds was found on an East Baltimore street about 1: 10 a.m. yesterday, and he died about 30 minutes later at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.Responding to a report of a shooting in the 1500 block of N. Chapel St., Eastern District police found the wounded man lying in the street.Police had made no arrest and knew of no motive for the slaying. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2100.Pub Date: 6/19/97

An unidentified man was found slain yesterday in Herring Run Park after two children playing nearby heard a shotgun blast, Baltimore police said.The children, who were playing in the area of the 5100 block of Cedgate Road, found the victim, about 19 years old, lying dead in a stream in a wooded section of the park. He had been shot once in the left side of the head, police said.A man wearing a red skull cap and stone-washed jeans was seen fleeing the area, police said.

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.

An unidentified man, believed to be from New York City, was shot to death last night while walking down a West Baltimore street.Police knew of no motive for the slaying.Police said the victim was walking in the 800 block of N. Fremont Ave. around 11 p.m. when a red pickup truck with a camper on the rear slowed down and came abreast of him.Witnesses told police that an occupant of the pickup truck fired at least two shots at the victim, hitting him in the upper torso.As the pickup truck sped off, the victim staggered into the basement of a nearby house and collapsed.

The body of an unidentified man was discovered yesterday evening by a fisherman walking along the banks of the Patuxent River near Browns Bridge Road in southwestern Howard County, police said. Authorities, including the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, investigated whether the man, who appeared to have been shot once, might have been the seventh victim in a string of sniper-style shootings in Montgomery County and Virginia. But they ruled out any connection within a few hours.

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.