Articles labeled: Maryland

A 16-year-old in Baltimore County has charged with the first-degree murder of his mother.

Lewin Carlton Powell III was arrested and charged as an adult last night with killing Donna Rosemarie Campbell-Powell, 39, an employee of the county Office of Budget and Finance, according to Baltimore County court documents. Powell was also charged with the attempted murder of his father, who goes by the same name.

Police said Campbell-Powell apparently died of blunt force trauma after she was hit multiple times with a baseball bat. Bill Toohey, a police spokesman, said the boy and his mother argued over his performance in school shortly after he arrived home Tuesday afternoon.

After rushing from a house after gunshots were fired, the family noticed a wound on their baby’s head, possibly caused from a shot the pierced a wall of the home.

The baby was taken to Johns Hopkins Children’s Center for an examination. Harris said the child’s injury might have been caused by his head striking something in the house while he was being rushed outside and not by a bullet.

“We’re waiting on a doctor’s examination to determine the cause of the infant’s injury,” Harris said.

Two young men were taken into custody shortly after the shots were fired and were being interviewed at the Southeastern District, Harris said.

A woman in Frederick, Maryland has been sentenced to 15 years after she was found guilty of poisoning her own daughter.

Thirty-three-year-old Wendi Scott pleaded guilty in March to first-degree child abuse for sickening her daughter to draw attention to herself, poisoning her with magnesium and using syringes to remove blood.

Prosecutors had alleged that Scott’s behavior was consistent with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a caregiver fakes or induces illness in another to generate sympathy.

Philadelphia police made a gruesome discovery, and they think it might solve the case of a baby that went missing in Baltimore two years ago.

Several weeks ago, Baltimore police received a tip alleging that an 18-month-old child had been killed in the city and taken elsewhere, police said. A follow-up investigation led police to Philadelphia.

Detectives with the Philadelphia and Baltimore police departments searched a rowhouse in the southern part of the city and found what could be human remains in a suitcase, according to Sterling Clifford, a Baltimore police spokesman.

Clifford said police investigators were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine whether the remains are human and, if so, how the child died.

He said detectives know the identity of the child that was reportedly killed and that they are working to identify the remains that were removed from the South Philadelphia rowhouse.

Wow, given the gazillions of babies that have been born in the United States, to be able to say that your birth is only one of 100 documented cases is pretty significant.

A 32-year-old mother from Belcamp gave birth in January to quadruplets — and three of the four boys are identical. The parents and the boys plan to introduce themselves at a news conference Friday.

The boys were born 11 weeks premature at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson.

Hospital officials said there are fewer than 100 documented cases of “identical triplets plus one” in the United States.

Even without the extra baby, identical triplets are rare, although how rare is difficult to say. Multiple births, however, are more common since the advent of fertility drugs and in vitro fertilization, which was used to conceive the triplets born at GBMC.

An apartment complex fire in Milford Mill, Maryland early Monday morning tragically took the life of a 6-month-old boy, Malik Michael Hasan, who was the only fatality:

Fire Department spokeswoman Elise Armacost said the two-alarm fire was reported at 1:35 a.m. Monday.

Armacost said the fire appeared to begin on the third floor of a three-story garden apartment at the St. Charles at Olde Court apartment complex. The fire started in the apartment in which the infant was later found.

Residents said they awoke to hearing banging on doors and people saying everyone should get outside.

“It spread, like, in no time. In five minutes, it was spreading,” resident Vera Greene said of the fire.

There was no word on where Malik’s parents were at the time, or what circumstances prevented them from getting him out.

The inner old man in us at first said, “You get those little skateboarding punks, officer!” But then we read the “deets”, as the cool kids say, and checked out the video of the incident that recently surfaced on YouTube, and it seems he might have stepped a bit over the line:

The video shows Officer Salvatore Rivieri approach the kids at the Inner Harbor of Baltimore, the area where they apparently were skateboarding. The kids tell Rivieri they didn’t know they couldn’t skateboard there.

“You back-talk me, I’m not your father,” Rivieri says. “You hear me? I’m not your father. You give that attitude to your father. You give it to me, I’ll smack you upside the head. Shut your mouth, I’m talking.”

In the video, after Rivieri pushes the kid on the ground, he takes his skateboard and puts it in his patrol vehicle.

The video in question is below:

A father shoots his ex, his children and then himself on Thanksgiving. How much more of a bastard can one be? His wife was about to hand over custody of their children to the father, who instead of providing safety like he’s SUPPOSED to, he instead massacres them.

LAYTONSVILLE, Maryland (AP) — A man shot and killed his ex-wife, their three children and himself in a small-town park as the woman prepared to hand over custody, police said Friday.

Their bodies were found Thursday evening in the tiny community of Unity.

Maryland-National Capital Park Police officers stopped in the deserted park after noticing two cars with their engines running, said Wayne Jerman, Montgomery County assistant police chief.

While I don’t believe parents should be forced to vaccinate their children, there has to be some sort of incentive for parents who are vaccinating their children. It is entirely unfair that parents RELY on other parents to do the right thing and create a barrier of protection for their own children. I support giving parents who vaccinate their children tax incentives.

Non-vaccinated children would probably pose a greater risk in public places like areas of transportation, where newborns could be exposed, rather than schools, however, if everybody stops vaccinating, we could have widespread disease and fatal illnesses emerge.

UPPER MARLBORO, Maryland (CNN) — A crowd of frustrated parents gathered on a chilly Saturday morning outside Prince George’s County Circuit Court to comply with an order from the school system to have their children vaccinated — or else.

Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Glenn Ivey, whose office began the effort, was at the courthouse to answer questions.

Judge C. Philip Nichols, who signed the letters threatening parents with jail or fines, said he felt the tactic worked.

“We got a thousand kids back in school just by sending one letter,” he said.

Nichols ordered parents to come to court Saturday to either immunize the children on the spot, or to provide proof that they already had their shots, according to The Associated Press.

A 16 year old boy is accused of trying to hire a hitman to kill his parents who continually grounded him and took away his playstation for getting bad grades.

As the mother pleads for the boy to be tried as an adult, one has to wonder what the environment was like for this troubled boy. As the article states, the boy was allegedly kicked out of his house for stealing $45 dollars out of his sisters piggy bank. A good defense lawyer could surely spin some sort of abuse allegation as a reason for his sociopathic tendencies. The mother is said to have witnessed the degeneration of her son’s behavior after she left his father when he was a baby. Did they not seek help for this boy when he most needed it? What happened to him to have such hate and disdain for his mother and stepfather? This story conjures up many unanswered questions….

WASHINGTON — Like many middle-class, suburban American parents, Shannan and Joey Troiano worried about their son’s behaviour and his bad grades at high school. And like many wayward teenagers, Cory Ryder was grounded for weeks at a time, had a PlayStation confiscated and was banned from watching TV.

Less typically, this 16-year-old was plotting to murder his parents by hiring a hitman, while his mother was organising a sting operation involving a police officer posing as a contract killer.

Cory’s trial is scheduled to begin today at the circuit court in St Mary’s County, Maryland. His mother is expected to testify as a witness for the prosecution.

Shanda R. Harris, the mother of an 11-year-old boy who police say was killed by a convicted sex offender, pleaded guilty in Baltimore Circuit Court yesterday to knowingly allowing the man to baby-sit her son.