Police reported a fatal shootingWednesday night on // on Windsor MillRoad, roughly the dividing line between Gwynns Falls Park and Leakin Park at the city's edge in West Baltimore. The woods here are typically where bodies are dumped, and we have very few details of this latest killing that was reported shortly after 9 p.m.
Meanwhile, we've had lots of crime news lately. Here's a look at what you might've missed:
A Baltimore man has been charged with killing his 5-year-old daughter after he told police that he beat her in anger because she soiled herself, according to court records. The killing was reported Monday night after the father called police to say his daughter was unresponsive in bathtub. Police said they found trauma to the body.
In Harford County Wednesday night, the Sheriff's Office said that a deputy responding to a breaking and entering call suffered a severe cut to his arm while trying to catch one of three suspects, who jumped through a plate-glass window to try and escape. The incident occurred at a house in the 1800 block of John Drive inEdgewood. Two others were captured; police said the deputy, whose name was not released, was in serious but stable condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In Anne Arundel County, jurors spared the life of Lee Edward Stevens, declining to impose the death penalty for his killing of a correctional officer at the now-closed House of Correction in Jessup. Instead, Stevens will get life without parole for fatally stabbing Cpl. David McGuinn. He already is serving life plus 15 years for a 1997 killing. The officer's family said they were satisfied with the decision.
An elderly man in Severn was shot early Wednesday when he confronted an intruder at his home in Severn, Anne Arundel County Police said. The Sun's Mary Gail Hare reports that the man's daughter, who lives nearby, alerted police at 4:20 a.m. that her 82-year-old father was shot in the leg while struggling with the burglar, who police said had broken into the home in the 1300 block of Sleepy Hollow Road. The victim told police that he was investigating a noise in the kitchen when an unknown man confronted him. During the ensuing struggle, the man wrestled a handgun away from the victim, who police said was shot with what investigators think was his own weapon.
The Arundel break-in was the second time this week that a homeowner was shot by an intruder. On Sunday in Towson, a man who returned home to a burglary in progress was shot in his stairwell, according to police.
A Baltimore County judge on Wednesday found a man not guilty of killing his 89-year-old neighbor in 2010. Michael W. Hester had been charged with stabbing Eleanor Marie Haley to get more money to pay his bills. The woman had given Hester and his family thousands of dollars, becoming his next-door benefactor. Police had said Hester created an elaborate ruse to distract police. Read the full report here.
Baltimore's Board of Estimates on Wednesday approved a $70,000 payout to three people, including a 2-year-old,
. The Sun's Luke Broadwater reports that at issue were the events of Aug. 28, 2009 when two Baltimore police officers arrested Tyrode Gibbs Sr., who was sitting on the front steps of a vacant property along with his 2-year-old son, Tyrode Gibbs Jr. The vacant property had a "No Trespassing" sign posted, and the officers instructed Gibbs and his son to leave, but he said he was "seeking shelter from the rain," the documents say.