Unidentified Woman

An unidentified woman was found fatally shot in an Essex apartment early Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore County police. Officers first responded to an apartment building in the 900 block of Garden Drive about 5:30 a.m. for a report of multiple gunshots in the building, according to Cpl. Cathy Batton, a police spokeswoman. There, they found a woman with multiple gunshot wounds, Batton said. The woman, who was the only person in the apartment when police arrived, was pronounced dead at the scene, Batton said.

An elderly woman was killed last night when a car crashed into the rear of another on northbound Interstate 95 in Harford County. Tfc. Eric Harbold of the state police said the driver of a 1993 Audi stopped or slowed down about 8 p.m. just south of the Route 24 exit and was struck from behind by a 1996 Eagle Talon. Harbold said an unidentified woman in the Audi was killed and the driver, Allister McRae, 85, of West Chester, Pa., was airlifted to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Harbold said Benjamin Quinteros, 24, of Towson, the Eagle's driver, and an unidentified male passenger were taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

A 27-year-old man fatally wounded in a stabbing early yesterday in Baltimore was taken to the hospital and left in a wheelchair by an unidentified woman who then drove away from the scene, a city police spokesman said. The man died of his injuries at 3:20 a.m. - more than an hour after he was hospitalized at the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore, according to Detective Donny Moses. He was identified as Timothy Swann Jr., who lived in the 1300 block of Wildwood Parkway.

An anonymous call from a pay phone yesterday morning led city police to the body of an unidentified woman lying face down in a stream in Herring Run Park in Northeast Baltimore.Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman, said police found no sign of trauma on the body and no apparent cause of death. An autopsy was scheduled for today.Police said the woman appeared to be in her 20s.A police officer found the fully clothed body about 500 yards west of Mannasota Avenue, near Belair Road and Parkside Drive, about 11:30 a.m., shortly after the call was made to 911 from a pay phone in Southwest Baltimore.

The Baltimore Sun Police are investigating the death of an unidentified woman whose body was discovered Sunday evening on the Gwynns Falls Trail in northwest Baltimore. A female jogger on the trail in the vicinity of 3900 block Windsor Mill Road spotted the body and called police about 6:19 p.m., according to Det. Jeremy Silbert, city police spokesman. The body appears to be that of an adult woman and appears to have been the victim of some sort of trauma, Silbert said. It has been transported to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy.

A liquor store clerk in Annapolis tried to contact city police to mediate a dispute about a customer's change. He never completed the call and police are looking for the unidentified woman, who struck the clerk on the head and stole his phone Friday evening. The customer argued with the clerk about the change she received from a purchase at the store in the 200 block of West Street at Madison Place. When the argument continued, the clerk attempted to call 911 on his cell phone. The woman struck him mid-call on the head, most likely with the bag of her bottled purchases, police said.

Blowup in the pitsIn a CART Indy-car race earlier this month at Nazareth, Pa., an incident between a car driven by veteran A.J. Foyt and Jeff Andretti left Foyt out of the race and in a foul mood.Long after the race Foyt walked down pit row and passed the pit of John Andretti, Jeff's cousin. He spotted an unidentified woman sitting there. Obviously still angered at the incident, Foyt proceeded to offer to her, in vivid terms, his view of Jeff Andretti's driving abilities.Sitting calmly, the woman waited until Foyt's tirade was over, then said: "I believe you have the wrong Andretti."

An autopsy was to be performed on an unidentified woman whose body was found floating in the Middle Branch of the Patapsco River near Middle Branch Park yesterday evening, said a spokesman for the city Fire Department. Shortly before 5 p.m., authorities were told that a body was floating near the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge in the 2400 block of S. Hanover St. in South Baltimore, said Capt. Roman Clark, the spokesman. Clark said a Fire Department rescue boat pulled the woman, believed to be about 30, from the water and that medics attempted to revive her there and on the way to Harbor Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

A 5-month-old West Baltimore boy believed to have been abducted by his baby sitter early Thursday is healthy and safe, city police reported last night.Anthony Fitzgerald, of the 500 block of North Carey Street, was returned to his mother last night after being located by authorities, police said.The baby, who was believed to have been taken from the home by a young woman known to his mother, Stephanie Fitzgerald, only as "Kitten," was located after an unidentified woman called authorities to say the sitter had left the infant with another woman.

The body of an unidentified woman was pulled from the Susquehanna River in Harford County yesterday, a spokeswoman for the Department of Natural Resources said.Two fishermen, Frank D. Gallucci of Oxford, Pa., and Steve Miller, a retired police officer from Rising Sun, discovered the body shortly before 10 a.m. about a mile downstream from the mouth of Broad Creek and notified authorities.Susan O'Brien, a Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman, said the body was pulled from the water at 10: 32 a.m.O'Brien said the body is believed to be that of a white female, 20 to 40 years old, wearing blue jeans and a black Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt.