Baltimore: Police shooting
Killing suspect shot by officer identified
Police identified yesterday the man who officials say stabbed a woman to death before being fatally shot by a Baltimore police officer Friday as city resident Dale R. Jones.
Jones, 38, whose last known address was in the 800 block of W. Saratoga St., chased 31-year-old Shenera Norris, the mother of his 1-year-old son, through a Northwest Baltimore apartment complex and stabbed her shortly after 9 a.m. Friday, city police said.
When officers answering a call at the complex went inside a unit seeking Jones, he lunged at an officer with a knife, police said. The officer shot him in the upper body. Jones was pronounced dead that afternoon.
Josh Mitchell
Baltimore
: Homicide
Woman fatally shot in Northwest
A young woman was found fatally shot early yesterday in a vacant lot in Northwest Baltimore, city police said.
Police responding to a call about 1:10 a.m. in the 3400 block of Woodland Ave. found the woman, believed to be in her late teens, with a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene, said Agent Donny Moses, a city police spokesman.
Police were trying to identify the victim yesterday. Detectives knew of no motive and had no suspects in the shooting, Moses said.
Josh Mitchell
Harford County
: Arson
Police investigate four vehicle fires
Investigators were trying to determine yesterday who set four vehicles on fire Thursday night in Harford County.
The first fire was reported about 10:20 p.m. in the 700 block of Cambridge Ave. in Aberdeen. A 2003 Ford F-450 tow truck was found destroyed by fire in a driveway. The damage was estimated at $50,000, the state fire marshal's office said.
About 40 minutes later, authorities answering a call at a fenced-in lot in the 700 block of Pulaski Highway in Joppa found eight vehicles damaged by fire. Authorities believe three of the vehicles were set on fire and that nearby vehicles were damaged. Other vehicles in the lot were vandalized. The damage totaled about $75,000, authorities said.
The vehicles from both incidents belonged to D.T. Recovery LLC, and investigators say they believe the fires were related. Anyone with information is asked to call Maryland Arson Hotline at 800-492-7529.
Josh Mitchell
Baltimore
: Science center
Grant to finance biology exhibit
The MetLife Foundation has awarded the Maryland Science Center a $1 million grant to develop a new exhibit, Cells: The Universe Inside Us, which is scheduled to open in March 2009, the museum announced in a statement.
The planned 4,000-square-foot exhibit will allow visitors to "explore functions of cells and scientific cellular research through hands-on, interactive displays, innovative technologies and activities," the statement says. People will "walk and virtually 'fly' through the inside of a cell to better understand the work of microbiologists."
The science center, located at the Inner Harbor, also plans a smaller exhibit along the same theme that can be brought to 12 science museums around the country, beginning in September 2009, the center said.