Man shot near Druid Hill Park is city's first homicide of 2010
Baltimore City recorded its first homicide this year when a man was fatally shot Sunday afternoon near Druid Hill Park, said a city police department spokesman. The victim's name was withheld pending notification of family members, said Detective Donny Moses, the spokesman. No arrest had been made. Shortly after 3 p.m., Northwestern District police and the crew of a city Fire Department ambulance responded to an alley in the 2300 block of Ocala Ave., about two blocks west of the park, for a report of a shooting, Moses said. There, police found the victim bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds to the body and was pronounced dead at the scene by medics. Moses said witnesses told police they saw two unidentified men running from the scene. Metro Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest and an indictment in the slaying.
- Richard Irwin
Apartment fire in Glen Burnie puts three children in hospital
Three children - one of them a 2-year-old boy - were hospitalized Sunday after a fire in a Glen Burnie apartment. A 19-year-old woman was also seriously hurt, and two adults suffered minor injuries in an altercation at the scene. Lt. Stuart Peters, Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman, said firefighters were summoned to a top-floor apartment in a complex at 129 Warwickshire Lane just after 10:30 a.m. and found a small but smoky fire in a pot on the stove. The boy was taken to Johns Hopkins Children's Center with "possibly life-threatening injuries," Peters said. Two girls, one age 8, the other 9, were being treated at the same hospital for minor injuries. The teen was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center for serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Peters said a man, 38, and a woman, 25, were treated at Harbor Hospital for minor injuries after they fought outside the apartment.
- Nick Madigan
City police officer injured after patrol car, truck crash
A Baltimore police officer was injured Sunday evening when his speeding patrol car, its siren blaring and its emergency lights flashing, crashed into a pickup truck on York Road in North Baltimore and flipped it onto its roof. Officers who went to the scene of the accident said it appeared to have occurred when the Ford pickup pulled out of a parking lot at 5438 York Road in front of the officer's white-and-blue Chevrolet Impala. The officer, who was not immediately identified, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, possible with a broken ankle or leg. Debris from both vehicles littered the road. After hitting the truck, the police car hit a red Mercury Tracer and then smashed into the brick facade of a Subway restaurant, demolishing some of the bricks and shattering two plate-glass windows. The front of the car was wrecked, its air bags deployed.
- Nick Madigan