Lansdowne man fatally shot
A 22-year-old Baltimore County man was fatally shot yesterday afternoon in Southwest Baltimore, and police said no arrest had been made and that a motive was not known.
Officers responding to a report of shots fired in the 500 block of N. Loudon Ave. about 12:45 p.m. were flagged down by a pedestrian who directed them to an alley.
There, police found the victim, later identified as Emmanuel M. Bryant of Lansdowne, bleeding from at least one bullet wound, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. She said Bryant was taken by a city Fire Department ambulance to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he died about 40 minutes later.
As of yesterday, there were 18 homicides in the city this year, compared with 30 at the same time in 2007, Monroe said.
Metro Crime Stoppers at 410-276-8888 is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and indictment in the killing.
Richard Irwin
Man gets 15 years in robberies
A Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to more than 15 years in prison for robbing eight businesses and four people while armed with a pellet gun in June and July 2006, federal prosecutors said.
Donald Leon Gladden, 41, also will serve three years of supervised probation on his release. U.S. District Judge Benson E. Legg ruled that Gladden is a career offender based on previous convictions in state court for attempted armed robbery and distributing heroin.
Prosecutors said Gladden held up eight stores between June 17 and July 17, 2006, threatening employees with the pellet gun and taking $33 to $900.
He also robbed four people from June 28 to July 14 after they made withdrawals from automated teller machines, taking $50 to $600.
Sonar to aid in search for boy
The search for a 3-year-old boy believed to have been thrown off the Key Bridge by his father late Sunday will include a high-tech detection device.
Chief Kevin Cartwright, a city Fire Department spokesman, said side-scanning sonar, a system that uses transmitted and reflected waves to find submerged objects, will be used early today in the search for Turner Jordan Nelson.
The child is believed to have been thrown into the Patapsco River by his father, Stephen T. Nelson, 37, of the 2900 block of Walbrook Ave.
The father remains hospitalized in a drug-induced coma after he tried to kill himself, police said. Homicide charges are pending.
Cartwright said the sonar device would be aided by a global positioning system.
He said the device was used to find the bodies of several people who drowned May 6, 2004, when a water taxi capsized on the Patapsco River during a storm off Fort McHenry.
Richard Irwin
Man held in death of 3-year-old
A 28-year-old Annapolis man was accused this week of abusing and killing his girlfriend's 3-year-old son, whom he was supposed to be baby-sitting while she went to work, Baltimore police said in charging documents.
Police arrested Phillip K. Queen of the 100 block of Conley Drive on Wednesday night and charged him with first-degree murder, first-degree child abuse and assault in the death of Jabari Stocks on June 8, 2007. Queen is accused of causing "trauma to the brain with force."
Police said the boy's mother, Gladys Stocks, had left Jabari and his older brother, Jaylen, 5, in the care of Queen while she went to work at a Glen Burnie grocery store.
Police said Queen called Stocks and told her that her son wasn't breathing and needed medical attention. She left work, drove back to her apartment in the 900 block of E. Patapsco Ave. in South Baltimore and took her son to Harbor Hospital.
The boy was dead on arrival, police said.
Queen is being held without bail at Baltimore's Central Booking and Intake Center, according to electronic court records.
The victim's mother could not be reached for comment.
Gus G. Sentementes
Fatal shooting in Bolton Hill probed
City homicide detectives are investigating the fatal shooting yesterday afternoon of a Bolton Hill woman whose body was found by her young son when he and his cousin returned home from school.
Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman, said the woman had been shot in the upper body and was pronounced dead at the scene. She said no arrest had been made and that police knew of no motive.
Uniformed officers and detectives at the scene declined to comment or confirm the victim's name.
Outside the house in the 1800 block of Bolton St., a woman who identified herself as the victim's sister said the victim and her 7-year-old son had lived in the house for about two years and that the woman worked on the assembly line at Solo Cup Corp. in Owings Mills.
Police would not confirm what led to the discovery of the dead woman or whether there were any signs of forced entry.
The sister said her nephew and his cousin, both students at Mount Royal Elementary School, arrived at the Bolton Hill home about 3 p.m. and found the 25-year-old woman unconscious in a first-floor room.
She said the boys ran to the son's grandmother's house on North Eutaw Street. The grandmother and the boys returned to the Bolton Street house and called police, the sister said.
Moments later, police arrived and cordoned off the front of the three-story, cream-colored dwelling with crime scene tape and began their investigation.
Richard Irwin