Two people fatally shot

in Baltimore Highlands

Baltimore County police are investigating the killing of two people on New Year’s Eve in Baltimore Highlands area. Officers responded at 9:33?p.m. Tuesday to a shooting in the 4100 block of Twin Circle Way, the police department said Wednesday on its Facebook page. They found Brea S. Mitchell, 23, and Antwan X. Jones, 25, who had been shot in their upper bodies. They died at the scene, which is in a residential neighborhood southwest of the city of Baltimore. County homicide detectives are investigating and asked people to call them at 410-307-2020 with information about the homicides.

— Baltimore Sun staff

Stabbing investigated

in Havre de Grace

Harford County sheriff’s detectives are investigating a stabbing that occurred early Wednesday in Havre de Grace. At approximately 12:28?a.m. on Wednesday, deputies assigned to the Southern Precinct of the Harford County Sheriff’s Office responded to Pine Street for the report of a stab wound to the arm. Deputies made contact with the victim, who was identified as Matthew Tyler Abrams, 25, of Havre de Grace. Deputies were informed the assault occurred as the victim was walking through the neighborhood to his home, when he was assaulted by two unknown males for unknown reasons, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. Abrams was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview for treatment of injuries believed not to be life-threatening.

— Baltimore Sun Media

Driver strikes pedestrian

in Towson, leaves scene

A pedestrian was hit by a pickup truck Tuesday night in Towson in a hit-and-run collision, Baltimore County Police said. Police said the pickup struck the man at 7:24 p.m. at Dulaney Valley Road and Fairmount Avenue. He was taken to a local hospital. The vehicle left the scene. Police described it in a tweet as a dark-colored, full-sized, four-door pickup with a tool box/cargo bed cover. Police are asking anyone with information to call them at 410-307-2020.

— Lorraine Mirabella

16-year-old arrested over threat at high school

Baltimore police have arrested a 16-year-old girl accused of making a threat on social media against her school, Mergenthaler Vocational Technical High School in East Baltimore. She is charged with making a threat of mass violence, according a post by the police department on its Facebook page. Police said they were notified Tuesday of the threat. Officers worked with Baltimore City School Police and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to identify and arrest the teen. “The suspect confessed to police and was transported to the Baltimore City Juvenile Booking Facility,” the post said.

— Baltimore Sun staff

Stolen puppy returned

to owner in Landover

Police in Prince George’s County say a puppy has been reunited with its owners after it was reported stolen at gunpoint by a woman with tattoos on her face. Police said in a statement that a person contacted authorities after spotting the puppy, named Lobo, alone Tuesday in Washington. The person recognized the puppy from news reports about the theft, police said. No suspects were immediately identified. The robbery was reported Monday in Landover. A man told police that he was walking the puppy when a woman displayed a gun and demanded the dog. The puppy’s owner grabbed the gun, and the two began to struggle before the puppy’s owner let go of the weapon, police said. The woman pulled the trigger several times, but the gun didn’t fire, according to police. By that time, a second suspect, a man, had approached. He and the woman sped away with the puppy in a car.

— Associated Press