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Two males were shot at 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening in the 2300 block of Harford Road. According to Detective Nicole Monroe, one victim was shot in the legs, and the other in the lower back. Police did not release the names of the two victims who were being treated at area hospitals. - Frederick N. Rasmussen

Two young men were shot early Saturday in the Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore, police said. About 12:40 a.m. police responded to the 1200 block of Glyndon Ave. following the report of a shooting, according to a police statement Saturday. Officers found two juveniles at the scene suffering from gunshot wounds, the statement said. Both were outside when they were shot, police said. One of the boys was shot in the leg and suffered a "graze wound to the face," police said.

Baltimore police on Monday morning were investigating a pair of shootings from Sunday evening. A 22-year-old man walked into St. Agnes Hospital shortly after 10 p.m. with a gunshot wound in the leg, police spokesman Sgt. Anthony Smith said. He had been shot a short time earlier in the 2800 block of Annapolis Road in the Westport neighborhood of South Baltimore. The wound was considered minor, Smith said. A 54-year-old man walked into Sinai Hospital at about 5:45 p.m. with a gunshot wound in the torso, Smith said.

Baltimore County police found a dead woman and an unconscious man inside an Arbutus home Friday afternoon. Police responded to a home in the 4700 block of Belwood Green after receiving information that a man had killed someone in the home and intended to kill himself, according to a police statement Saturday. When officers entered the home they found Kathleen Washington, 45, dead, the statement said. She suffered multiple injuries, police said, and her cause of death is awaiting autopsy results.

The owner of a Towson gas station died Tuesday morning after he was shot several times the day before during an apparent robbery attempt, a Baltimore County police spokesman said. William Raymond Porter, 49, was shot about 7:25 a.m. Monday at a Hess station in the 1600 block of E. Joppa Road. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died at 10 a.m. Tuesday, said Cpl. Mike Hill. No arrests had been made. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-307-2020 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7-LOCKUP.

In 1992, Paula Butturini and her husband, John Tagliabue, moved back to Rome, where they'd met, gotten engaged and were married in the '80s. Each morning she would walk from their apartment near the Tiber River to Campo dei Fiori, where everyone from the fishmongers to "the roving garlic salesmen from Bangladesh" beat her to their stands, no matter how early she got there. In 1995, she pitched a high-powered New York publisher a cookbook centered on the riches of Campo dei Fiori.

Baltimore police found a 29-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds in West Baltimore Saturday. Police did not release the victim's name or condition. He was found just after 5:15 p.m. in the 2700 block of Riggs Avenue, and was transported to a local hospital for treatment, police said. Detectives from the Southwest district are investigating. ywenger@baltsun.com

A man fighting with a female companion was stabbed to death yesterday, and another man was fatally shot late Tuesday in unrelated slayings in West Baltimore, police said.And yesterday afternoon, a 17-year-old boy was critically wounded when he was shot in the head during an apparent robbery inside a rowhouse in the 600 block of N. Luzerne Ave., police said. A companion was shot in the face.The slayings brought to five the number of people killed in the city since Monday, when three people were fatally shot in unrelated incidents.

Three teen-agers were wounded yesterday evening during what Howard County police said appears to be a drive-by shooting in Columbia's Wilde Lake village. None of the teen-agers was critically hurt, said county police spokeswoman Pfc. Lisa Myers. As of yesterday evening, Howard County police said they could not release the names of the victims because not all family members had been notified. They did say all three are Columbia residents, one an 18-year-old man, and two juveniles - a girl and a boy. Shots were fired from a black car as it drove around the Bryant Woods apartments on Daystar Court, Myers said.

A city police officer shot and wounded a robbery suspect yesterday evening on an East Baltimore street when the man allegedly attempted to run the officer down with his car. Eastern District Officer Donald Hayes, a four-year-member of the force, was in the 2000 block of E. Lafayette Ave. about 5:30 p.m. when he observed a gunman robbing another man on the street, police said. When Hayes approached, the gunman entered a car and tried to run Hayes down, police said. Hayes fired his semiautomatic service weapon, hitting the driver once in the jaw and once in an arm, police said.

The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old Paul White Jr., who had been released from the county jail less than three months earlier, leaving his family's home, police said. Inside, White's mother was found unconscious and bleeding from at least one stab wound from a kitchen knife, and his sister was also found stabbed and bleeding, police said.

Baltimore County Police say a man was found dead this morning at a gas station in Rosedale after suffering at least one gunshot wound. At 4:28 a.m., police and emergency medical personnel got a call for “unknown trouble” and responded to the Shell Gas Station in the 6300 block of 6321 Kenwood Ave in Rosedale.  There, officers found an adult male suffering from at least one gunshot wound. The male had been found in front of the gas station, police said, and was declared dead at the scene.

Baltimore County Police said two women were stabbed - one fatally - in an incident overnight in the Parkville area. Police said that at 12:08 a.m., they responded to a home in the unit block of Lerner Court in Parkville.  A female had called 911 and asked for the police to be sent to the location, but gave no further information before the line disconnected, police said. When officers arrived, they found two females with stab wounds.  One female was pronounced dead at the scene and the other was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.  One person was taken into custody at the scene.

A Northwestern High School student was cut across his right thumb on Thursday after an altercation with another student outside the school. According to Baltimore City Public Schools, a male and female student were teasing each other off school grounds at the corner of Fallstaff Road and Park Heights Avenue. The teasing escalated, school system spokeswoman Edie House-Foster said, and the female cut the male student across his right thumb. Baltimore City Public Schools police took the girl to the state Juvenile Services department while the boy was taken to Sinai Hospital and treated for a superficial cut, House-Foster said.

Baltimore City Police say they believe road rage may have been the reason behind a fatal shooting overnight in the city. Police said that at about 2:55 a.m., they responded to the 2800 block of Erdman Avenue for a report of a shooting, and found an adult black male with multiple gun shot wounds. The victim was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced at 3:17 a.m. Police did not release the victim's identity, and also had no immediate information on a suspect. However, they said they believe the incident may have been the result of road rage.

Two weeks after Beverly Poyer married her husband in 2007, he was deployed to Afghanistan. When he came home a year later, she was thrust into a role she hadn't expected: caregiver. Army Spc. Max Poyer, exposed to frequent mortar blasts in Afghanistan, suffered brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. Now the life the Southern Maryland couple had planned - to finish college, buy a house and have more children - had to be redefined. That's when Beverly Poyer, 32, found a new calling: helping military families overcome emotional battle scars and transition back to civilian life.

A 17-year-old boy was shot in the back of the head inside a home in the Gwynn Oak area of Northwest Baltimore early on Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police. The teen, who has not been identified, was listed in critical condition at an area hospital on Wednesday, said Detective Angela Carter Watson, a police spokeswoman. Officers responded to a report of gunfire in the 4000 block of Eldorado Avenue, on the border between the city's Howard Park and Dorchester neighborhoods, just after midnight and located the injured teen inside a home.

A man was stabbed inside MedStar Harbor Hospital in Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon amid a dispute with another man, police said. Baltimore police said the stabbing victim's wounds were superficial, that his injuries were being treated and that police had a person of interest in custody. No one else was injured. Baltimore police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said the men had some prior knowledge of each other, but investigators were working to determine further details. The hospital was never locked down, he said.