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Family Dealt Fresh Blow Following Fatal Shooting Of Maryland Father Family Dealt Fresh Blow Following Fatal Shooting Of Maryland Father
Family Dealt Fresh Blow Following Fatal Shooting Of Maryland Father A Maryland family is reeling once again after losing another loved one to violence, this time in Prince George's County. Bowie resident Jakel Stone, 34, leaves behind a teen son after he was shot to death in Landover over the holiday weekend. According to the Prince George's County Police Department, officers were called on Saturday, Aug. 31, where they found Stone in the 6900 block of Hawthorne Street suffering from gunshot wounds in a parking lot. He was rushed to an area hospital, where he later died, leaving his family asking questions as they grapple with their latest tragedy. Stone …

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by Zak Failla
Traffic
Father Dead, 7-Year-Old Son Injured In Maryland Construction Zone Crash: State Police Father Dead, 7-Year-Old Son Injured In Maryland Construction Zone Crash: State Police
Father Dead, 7-Year-Old Son Injured In Maryland Construction Zone Crash: State Police A 41-year-old father was killed, and his son suffered injuries in a crash in Carroll County on Friday night, according to Maryland State Police. Hampstead resident Geoffrey Brittingham has been identified by investigators as the person killed in a construction zone crash that also left his 7-year-old son injured. Police say that Brittingham was traveling north on Emory Road at Cedarhurst Road shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Friday, May 30 in Finksburg.  Investigators believe he failed to stop for a closed construction zone at the North Branch Patapsco River bridge replacement projec…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Police ID Family Involved In Overnight Murder-Suicide In Maryland Police ID Family Involved In Overnight Murder-Suicide In Maryland
Police ID Family Involved In Overnight Murder-Suicide In Maryland New details have been released by the Howard County Police Department after the patriarch of a family died at the hospital following a murder-suicide in Elkridge on Thursday night. Nayyar Abbas Syed, 61, the believed shooter, was pronounced dead at St. Agnes hospital overnight, according to officials, who also identified his other victims. The shooting suspect's wife, Syeda Aalia Nayyar, 57; daughter, Syeda Fatima, 25; and daughter-in-law, Alizey Fatima, 33, were all pronounced dead at the scene.  His son, Muhammad Ali Hamza, 31, is currently at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma…

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by Zak Failla
Obituaries
Family Reeling After DC Man Killed In Maryland Weeks After Mother Died Family Reeling After DC Man Killed In Maryland Weeks After Mother Died
Family Reeling After DC Man Killed In Maryland Weeks After Mother Died The hits keep coming for a Maryland family who suffered two unthinkable tragedies weeks apart during the holiday season. Late last month, 37-year-old District resident Timothy Jones, a father of four daughters, was shot and killed in the middle of the day in an otherwise quiet street in Prince George's County, according to police. The shooting was reported at around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 28 in the 900 block of Saint Michaels Drive. Jones was pronounced dead at the scene by first responders. 900 block of Saint Michaels Drive in Bowie Prince George's County Police His death sent …

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by Zak Failla
Obituaries
Toddler Killed By Father In MD Remembered For 'Strongest Of Personalities' Toddler Killed By Father In MD Remembered For 'Strongest Of Personalities'
Toddler Killed By Father In MD Remembered For 'Strongest Of Personalities' A heartbroken family is still searching for answers days after the death of beloved 2-year-old Sterling Glover Petty in Maryland who was killed by his father in a grisly murder-suicide. Sterling was shockingly shot by his father, Kenneth Petty, who then turned the gun on himself on Sunday, Dec. 10 in Prince George's County in what his family described as a "senseless act of violence," and "unimaginable tragedy."  "We find ourselves grappling with unanswered questions, intense grief, shock, and the overwhelming burden of laying our little one to rest," organizers of a GoFundMe for his m…

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by Zak Failla
Obituaries
Expectant Father Killed During Birthday Celebration By MD Mass Shooter, Family Says Expectant Father Killed During Birthday Celebration By MD Mass Shooter, Family Says
Expectant Father Killed During Birthday Celebration By MD Mass Shooter, Family Says A joyous group affair turned tragic for a Maryland family who lost two doting fathers who were gunned down in Annapolis during the mass shooting over a parking spot over the weekend. Community support is swelling for the families of Mario Antonio Mireles Ruiz, 27, and his father Nicholas Mireles, 55 who were among three killed by Annapolis resident Charles Robert Smith during a bout of rage on Sunday, June 11. Three were killed and three hospitalized with various injuries following the shooting, according to police. Mireles Ruiz was a father of three children with one on the way, according…

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by Zak Failla
News
Inside Pennsylvania Family's Chilling Suicide Pact Inside Pennsylvania Family's Chilling Suicide Pact
Inside Pennsylvania Family's Chilling Suicide Pact The Daub family's bodies were arranged in a straight line across the backyard of their York County home when police arrived at the scene on Wednesday, Jan. 25, they said. Notes inside of their Loman Avenue home in West Manchester Township detailed exactly how Morgan, 26, and her parents, James, 62, and Deborah, 59, planned on dying, police said in a statement emailed to Daily Voice. And the chilling scene reflected just those, police said: Deborah killed James, Morgan killed Deborah, and then Morgan — who according to PennLive died holding a sword that read "Sword of the Lord — then killed …

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by Jillian Pikora & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Broken Skull, Punctured Lungs Suffered By Maryland Family In Crash 2 Minutes From Home Broken Skull, Punctured Lungs Suffered By Maryland Family In Crash 2 Minutes From Home
Broken Skull, Punctured Lungs Suffered By Maryland Family In Crash 2 Minutes From Home Jaime Lopez had just gotten off of a FaceTime call with his family and was at home building a surprise bedroom for his daughter. He knew he'd be seeing her in just a few minutes, and she was right around the corner from their Lothian with her sister and their mom, Lopez's wife.  Fate had other plans for Lopez's family on Saturday, Dec. 17, though, as Lopez's wife, Rosa Cortez, and daughters were struck by a drunk driver going 100 mph — and they never made it home.  Meanwhile, the drunken driver — identified in the Capital Gazette as 28-year-old Robert Scott Torres — app…

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by Annie DeVoe
Police & Fire
Siblings Killed In Pottstown Home Explosion Were 'Sweet, Loved Playing Outside' Siblings Killed In Pottstown Home Explosion Were 'Sweet, Loved Playing Outside'
Siblings Killed In Pottstown Home Explosion Were 'Sweet, Loved Playing Outside' Support is surging for two Pottstown parents whose four children were killed when their home exploded early this week. Brothers Jeremiah White, 12, Nehemiah White, 10, and Tristan White, 8, along with their cousin Alana Wood, 13, died in an explosion at their Hale Street home Thursday, May 27. The boys' grandmother Francine White also died. "They were such the sweetest kids who loved the out doors, bike riding football and coming down to my place in Brigantine," reads a GoFundMe by the boys' uncle Eric Matuzsan.  "They were the stars of my niece Kristina and Gene's lives. My brother Mike …

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by Cecilia Levine