In Baltimore City

Man, city boy killed in apparently unrelated incidents

Baltimore police are investigating the killings of a city teen-ager and an unidentified man early yesterday.

Phillip Adams, a city resident, was shot five days shy of his 16th birthday. He was killed shortly before 3 a.m. during an apparent robbery in the 2000 block of Hollins St., said Detective Michael Baier. Baier said the robber grabbed Adams, put a gun to his head and fired once. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

About an hour later, a man was fatally stabbed in the 400 block of 25th St. His identity was unknown last night.

Police do not believe the two slayings are related, and they have no witnesses to the 25th Street killing.

The homicides are the city's 119th and 120th this year.

In Cecil County

Police find drugs in car pulled over for speeding

PERRYVILLE -- Two South Carolina men who Maryland State Police said were carrying more than 1,000 pills of the drug Ecstasy and a half-pound of cocaine were arrested early yesterday on Interstate 95.

Steve N. Suhara, 47, of Ladson, S.C. and Richard T. Warner, 21, of Columbia, S.C. were charged with seven drug-related crimes, including possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

About 2 a.m., police stopped a 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix for speeding near Perryville. Police said they found the pills, cocaine and 38 grams of marijuana under the passenger seat. Police also found a digital scale, a device commonly used by drug dealers, they said. The drugs had a street value of nearly $50,000, police said.

Suhara is being held in lieu of $150,000 bond at the Cecil County Detention Center. Warner is being held at the detention center in lieu of $75,000 bond.