Staff reports, The Examiner
2008-06-17 07:00:00.0
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BALTIMORE -

Prostitution sting nets six men, one woman

Six men and one woman were arrested on prostitution charges in Anne Arundel after approaching undercover detectives, Anne Arundel County police said Monday.

County police conducted an undercover prostitution sting June 5 in Maryland City, where six men solicited prostitution, police said.

Those suspects are John J. Mullikin, 39, of Bowie; Jason A. Simmons, 32, of Laurel; Russell F. Brown Jr., 52, of Glen Burnie; Robert Robinson, 28, of Laurel; Richard D. Hackett, 37, of Laurel; and Eric F. Sherman, 61, of Laurel.

The following day police conducted another sting in the area of Route 198 and Red Clay Road, and arrested Karen Michelle Balance, 46, of Charlotte Hall. – Carolyn Peirce

Parkville man killed son on Father’s Day, cops say

A Father’s Day filled with drinking turned violent Sunday when police say a Parkville father murdered his son during an argument.

Police called to a home on the 9700 block of Harford Road around 5 p.m. found Harold WIlliams Jr., 38, on his father’s living room floor, suffering from a gunshot wound to the lower abdomen.

He was pronounced dead at 6:13 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

Harold Williams Sr., 57, told officers that he shot his son, according to charging documents. He later told detectives that he and his son had been drinking at a bar but the son was driven home after arguing with his father and an uncle, charging documents state.

When Williams Sr. arrived at the home his son began yelling, picked up a hammer and came toward him, prompting the father to grab a shotgun and shoot his son, police said.

But a witness told police that Williams Sr. was holding the hammer when his son took it and threw it into a bedroom. The 28-year-old woman “states that the victim did not have any hammer in his hand and was not threatening his father when he was shot,” charging documents state.

Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill would not elaborate on the argument.

Williams is charged with first-degree murder and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for July 11. – Luke Broadwater