At approximately 10:30 PM last night MRPD units responded to the 3100 block of Perry Street for an alleged homicide. We discovered the body of a 41-year-old African American female who had died of as yet unknown causes. Preliminary investigation suggests no foul play was involved in the victim’s death. The Medical Examiner advised that she had died there at least 12 hours before her body was discovered. Relatives told us that the deceased suffered from seizures, diabetes, and was an acute alcoholic. The Medical Examiner had the body removed to the State toxicologist's office in Baltimore for post mortem examination, and we should have preliminary results by late Monday afternoon or early Tuesday morning. PGPD detectives are handling the follow-up investigation.
September 4 th : 2500 block of Queens Chapel Road : Emergency petition – 4:50 am. Officers on patrol observed a highly intoxicated man walking through on-coming traffic carrying two 14” long kitchen knives. When the officers stopped the man and ordered him to drop the knives he refused and said that he wanted to die and was going to kill himself. The officers also observed that the man was bleeding from his mouth and had blood on the back of his shirt. A member of the man’s family arrived on the scene and convinced the man to drop the knives and, after a brief struggle officers were able to get him under control. Fire/rescue personnel arrived to transport the man to the hospital and during their on-scene evaluation officers observed that he had a large amount of shattered glass in his hair and on his face along with several long cut/scratch markings on his back just above his waist line. Medics took him to Washington Adventist Hospital where he was committed to medica...
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