Maryland is a violent state, but today's deluge of major crime news around the region was a bit overwhelming.
In Carroll County, police were investigating a murder-suicide in Hampstead that involved a man who killed his ex-wife's fiance and then took his own life. Michael Leo Swift III had been charged in January with possessing unlicensed machine guns, rifles and explosive devices and was out on bail.
In Baltimore County, the boyfriend of a 23-year-old woman missing since Thanksgiving was arrested and charged with murder, two weeks after her body was found in Virginia. County police also identified a 48-year-old man found outside a Cockeysville home.
In the city, we've already blogged about the Remington drive-by shooting, the killing of a Johns Hopkins Hospital security officer in a robbery, and the case of a month-old infant buried in Druid Hill Park by his mother who had four other children taken away by social services. As I type this, police are investigating a stabbing at the Inner Harbor that sent a juvenile to the hospital in serious condition. And the AP also reported that Raymond T. Taylor waived extradition in West Virginia and will be transported back to Maryland, where he escaped from a prison last month.