Wounds

A teenage boy who was found shot on a Northeast Baltimore street early yesterday died later of his wounds - the second teenager killed in the city in two days, police said. About 1 a.m., Northeastern District police officers responded to a report of a shooting in the 1600 block of Montpelier St., off Harford Road across from Clifton Park. Officers found a 17-year-old boy bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead shortly before 4 a.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.

Body of officer wanted in wife's death is found The search for a state corrections officer charged with killing his wife and wounding his stepson Friday night during an argument at their West Baltimore home ended yesterday with the discovery of the man's body at a pull-over on Interstate 81 north of Watertown, N.Y., authorities said. Officer Troy Harris, a Baltimore police spokesman, said the body of Donald Webb Jr., 48, a 17-year member of the city's correctional center, was found about 4 p.m. seated in his blue 2006 Chevrolet pickup truck, dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Aug. 21 1940 Exiled Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.

With the rise in cases of diabetes, more and more people will suffer from foot ulcers that do not heal and may end up needing amputation because treatment of chronic wounds is so difficult. Today, an alternative treatment based on a remedy used since antiquity is getting increased attention -- smearing wounds with honey. Manuka Honey, a medicinal honey harvested by beekeepers in New Zealand, is now being marketed for application on wounds. In June, Health Canada approved it under the brand name Medihoney for use as a wound dressing and antimicrobial.

Ruth Santiago was watching her favorite Spanish-language soap opera when two gunman burst into her two-story, brick rowhouse in East Baltimore Tuesday evening and fatally shot her and seriously wounded her live-in boyfriend, police and relatives said.Santiago, 40, died in the living room of the home, in the 3300 block of McElderry St. in the Ellwood Park-Monument neighborhood, shortly before 8 p.m. Her boyfriend, Rafael Abreu, 51, remains in serious condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital with gunshot wounds to the chest and leg, said police spokeswoman Agent Ragina L. Cooper.

John Cabrer did not think. He just ran toward the noise. He saw a man running right at him. The man's face was purple and red and twisted with panic. "Call the police!" the man was screaming, over and over.In the chaos after a mass shooting in an Atlanta office building, Cabrer kept going. Security guards were running everywhere. He crossed a walkway and found himself at the emergency exit of All-Tech Investment Group. He looked inside a large room. He saw a man with a bullet wound in his cheek.

A man who was found with stab wounds early yesterday in the back yard of his Waverly residence died later at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said.Timothy Williams, 35, of the 1500 block of Homestead St., a few blocks south of Memorial Stadium, was found by Fire Department medics and police responding to a report of a stabbing about 4: 40 a.m., said Detective Charles McCready. Williams died about an hour later at Hopkins.McCready said no arrest had been made and a motive for the killing was not known.

The Baltimore police major who oversees internal investigations when officers fire their weapons on duty shot a man twice early yesterday when he confronted a suspected armed robber at an east-side carryout.Maj. Ronald S. Savage, 54, who has been on the force 32 years, is commander of the Internal Investigation Division, which, along with the homicide unit, decides whether officers have acted properly when they shoot civilians.To avoid a conflict, the part of the investigation that the division usually oversees -- whether shootings are consistent with the department's policy on the use of deadly force -- has been turned over to Maj. Errol L. Dutton, who heads the Police Department's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Among the events from the Battle of Cedar Creek selected for this year's re-enactment is a portrayal of the death of Confederate Maj. Gen. Stephen Dodson Ramseur, who was mortally wounded while leading the rear guard at the end of the battle.At his death during the Battle of Cedar Creek, Oct 19, 1864, the 27-year-old Ramseur, hailing from North Carolina, commanded a division under Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early."Ramseur in personal appearance was slight, erect, alert, earnest in speech, with dark prominent eyes and a well developed forehead.

A county police officer shot and wounded a Glen Burnie man who brandished two knives and reportedly lunged at officers Sunday after he allegedly stabbed his girlfriend several times in a domestic dispute.Donald Coulbourn, 39, of the 100 block of Wilson Blvd. was in critical but stable condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center yesterday after undergoing an operation for a gunshot wound to his right hip.He was charged with three counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of carrying a deadly weapon with the intent to injure and one count of carrying a concealed deadly weapon.

Two police officers were shot Saturday morning in what officials are calling an ambush while tracking down a suspect in West Baltimore who had assaulted two women earlier in the day. Police did not name wounded officers Saturday afternoon but said a 44-year-old officer, a 17-year veteran of the department, suffered three bullet wounds - including a serious one to the abdomen, which is not believed to be life-threatening. Another officer, who is 42 years old with three years' experience, suffered a minor wound to the buttock and was released from the hospital.

Two homicides have been added to the city's tally for this year, stemming from incidents that occurred in 2005 and 2008. Baltimore has seen a relatively quiet May, with seven homicides compared with an average of about 20 per month over the past year. The two people whose deaths were added to the city's homicide figures succumbed to their wounds this year, and the medical examiner ruled recently that the cases were homicides. Tavon Crawford was one of two people shot April 12, 2005, and he became a paraplegic as a result of his wounds, according to Officer Troy Harris, a police spokesman.

Moments after a Baltimore man repeatedly stabbed his estranged wife near the Eastside District Court building yesterday afternoon, the man was shot and wounded by an off-duty city police officer, police said. Cleaven Williams, 33, and his wife, Veronica Williams, 29, both of the 900 block of E. North Ave., have had domestic problems, and she had sworn out a warrant Nov. 9, charging her husband with assault, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokesman. She said the couple was to appear at 2 p.m. yesterday for a custody hearing concerning their three children, but the hearing was postponed.

Police, FBI search for Joppatowne bank robber A man robbed the Bank of America branch at the Joppatowne Plaza Shopping Center at 10 a.m. yesterday, taking an unknown amount of cash, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said. The robber escaped on foot, and was tracked into Baltimore County, where officials said they lost his trail. The sheriff's office released photos of the man (left) taken from surveillance video. Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to contact Detective Phil Golden at 410-836-5430 or the FBI at 410-879-5240.

Two people slain, three injured in city violence Two people were killed early yesterday in separate incidents, including a quadruple shooting in which one victim died and three were wounded, Baltimore police said. The shooting occurred about 3 a.m. in the 200 block of Harmison St. in South Baltimore. One man was shot in the hand and two women were shot in the leg, police said. A second man was found in an alley and pronounced dead at the scene, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman.

A 6-year-old boy was wounded yesterday by a stray bullet during a shootout in Northeast Baltimore, police said. Police received a call about 5 p.m. about a shooting in the 3200 block of Lyndale Ave. at the corner of St. Cloud Avenue in Bel Air-Edison, said Agent Donny Moses, a police spokesman. The boy, who was one of several children playing in the area at the time of the shooting, was struck once, Moses said. The bullet passed through the upper right side of the boy's chest and did not strike any vital organs, Moses said.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - A bomb hidden in a briefcase tore through a bus packed with Lebanese soldiers on their way to work yesterday morning, killing 15 people, including nine soldiers, and wounding more than 40 people. The bombing overshadowed news from Damascus that Syria and Lebanon would establish diplomatic relations for the first time since each country achieved independence from France in the 1940s. The announcement, at the start of a fence-mending mission by President Michel Suleiman of Lebanon, did not say when the countries would exchange ambassadors.

Seth Qubeck sees a future teaching in South America, but sharp back pains bring back a horrifying memory. Christine Neperud finds inspiration each day in the energy and innocence of her first-grade students. But every once in a while, the sight of some lanky young man wearing a baseball cap backward reopens deep wounds. And though Ta'Juan Hall is devoted to helping raise his 9-year-old nephew, the boy is a constant reminder of the brother Hall lost. The thread connecting the three is a brutal attack 10 years ago in Florida that left two college students from Howard County dead.

Several city shootings leave two people dead Two people who were among several shot in Baltimore over the weekend died of their wounds, city police said yesterday. As of yesterday, 25 people have been killed in the city this year, compared with 43 during the same period last year, police said. In the latest incident, police said a man and woman were found shot, one fatally, in a West Baltimore rowhouse early yesterday. Police who responded to a call about a shooting about 12:15 a.m. in the 700 block of W. North Ave. found the woman in one room suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Police are investigating the shooting death last night of a man who was found near North and Druid Hill avenues in West Baltimore, city police said. The man, whose identity was not immediately released, was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 8:55 p.m. He is the city's 278th homicide victim of the year.