glockguy45
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Here is a article that was in the Sun this morning about our newest BG. I love how the system works. This guy should still be in prison but his time was suspended. They want to blame the mother for buying his firearms, but if he was still in jail she wouldn't have bought them for him in the first place. I mainly posted this because it says that the local residents have armed themselves, I thougt that the law would protect them and they only had to call 9-1-1 to be saved from the BG..
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?section=cover&pagename=story&storyid=1150280206566
Wet weather slows hunt for fugitive
Palczynski escapes to Virginia, comes back to Bowleys Quarters; Mother begs for surrender; Nervous residents of E. Baltimore County lock doors, get weapons
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By Nancy A. Youssef
And Tanoah Morgan Sun Staff
While Joseph C. Palczynski's mother pleaded late last night for him to turn himself in, police continued their search for the man suspected in four killings who fled briefly to Virginia before returning home to eastern Baltimore County, where residents have grown increasingly nervous.
Hampered by the bad weather, which grounded aerial surveillance and dulled the trail for bloodhounds, law enforcement authorities combed the Bowleys Quarters area all day yesterday but did not find him.
They said they discovered early yesterday that Palczynski -- who is 31 and described as a lifelong outdoorsman -- had escaped Friday to Virginia, stolen weapons from a home there and forced a Virginia man early yesterday to drive him back to the eastern side of Baltimore County, where the events began Tuesday.
Despite rain and poor visibility, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, state police and Baltimore County police continued their round-the-clock search for Palczynski yesterday in the woods and on the streets.
Residents who have been captivated and terrified by the week's events in the typically quiet eastern Baltimore County community have armed themselves with baseball bats, loaded guns and knives scattered through their homes.
At a news conference at 10: 30 p.m. yesterday, Palczynski's mother, Patricia Long, appealed to her son to surrender. "Please come home. I know you're very tired. I know you're weary," she said.
"When you hurt people, you hurt me," she said, starting to cry. "You can't do this to me anymore." After she spoke, a member of the Baltimore County hostage negotiatingteam hugged her.
Police believe Palczynski is wearing layers of clothing -- some camouflage, some flannel -- and is carrying a .22-caliber revolver. He might also have a knife, they said.
About 8 p.m. yesterday, search teams thought they had sighted Palczynski near his mother's home, but nothing turned up.
"He just keeps popping up," one police officer said. "It appears he has some unfinished business here. We just don't know what it is." Another officer said they were "not ruling out" the possibility that friends in the Middle River area might be helping him.
"He's smart. He's daring. He has been in an element that he has been very comfortable with," said Maj. Brian Uppercue, a county police spokesman, referring to the thick woods where Palczynski is believed to be hiding.
"The officers are hesitant to go into dark woods because they can be ambushed," he said.
The shootings this week and subsequent searches have brought the community to a standstill, especially in the evening when many storekeepers are shutting their doors early, replacing their typical goodbyes to customers with warnings to "be careful" and "get home before dark."
Court records show Palczynski has a history of mental illness and has repeatedly assaulted former girlfriends and their families.
Neighbors in the heavily wooded waterfront community hurried home yesterday to lock themselves indoors and break out weapons for protection.
"I borrowed a small handgun that we keep in the house loaded now," said Jim Marcum as he shopped for food and bird feed at a local Safeway. "I think a lot of people are on guard."
Carl Pucci echoed his neighbors' concerns from the parking lot of a Rite-Aid drugstore.
"I've put knives in strategic locations, so if he came in we would have something around," he said. "It's incredible that one person can cause such a stir and disrupt so many people's lives."
Sandy Bochenek, who lives about a mile from the apartment complex where Tuesday's shootings occurred, said she won't have a gun in the house with her toddler daughter, but "I went to my mother's and got a baseball bat because our dogs would just lick him to death."
Palczynski has been hunted since Tuesday evening when, police say, he went to an apartment in the 3700 block of White Pine Road, kidnapped his estranged girlfriend Tracy Whitehead, 22, and fatally shot two people who had taken her in -- 49-year-old George Shenk and his wife, Gloria, 50. Palczynski is accused of gunning down 42-year-old David Michael Meyers, a neighbor of the Shenks, when he came to Whitehead's aid.
Police believe Palczynski surfaced again shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, fatally shooting Jennifer McDonel, 37, in her car at the 8600 block of Ebenezer Road during an attempted carjacking. A 2-year-old boy riding with his mother in another car was also grazed by a pellet from the carjacker's shotgun, police said.
Within minutes, police say, he stole a car at gunpoint from an 81-year-old Rosedale woman who was not injured.
Two hours later, at a Rosedale motel, Whitehead escaped her captor, who fled on foot, leaving behind the stolen car with a shotgun and rifle, police said.
Federal investigators have charged Constance Ann Waugh, 48, of the 12500 block of Gracewood Ave. in Chase, with illegally purchasing the weapons Palczynski used in the killings.
Friday afternoon, Baltimore County police were in southeastern Harford County looking for Palczynski, but they later theorized that he had hopped a freight train to southwestern Caroline County, Va., about 120 miles south of Washington, D.C.
Virginia State Police reported that sometime after 7: 30 a.m. Friday, a man believed to be Palczynski broke into a home near the railroad and stole a 1989 Ford pickup truck, a 12-gauge shotgun, a .22-caliber revolver, food and clothing. He headed north on Interstate 95.
When the truck ran out of gas about 25 miles later near Woodford, the man ditched it -- and the shotgun -- walked to a nearby brick rancher and forced 53-year-old William Terrell to drive him back to Baltimore County.
He first offered Terrell about $100 to drive him back to Maryland but Terrell refused, police said. He then displayed a handgun and Terrell complied, police said.
"I can only tell you he came to the door agitated [and] asking if someone could take him to get gas," said Investigator J. E. "Skip" Samuels, of the Caroline County (Va.) Sheriff's Office. "There was no physical confrontation."
Eight hours later, Terrell's wife reported him missing to the sheriff's office, which notified the FBI. Mrs. Terrell told officials the gunman gave her a different name, but Palczynski's mother's address.
Police found the Terrells' truck on Carrollwood Road in Bowleys Quarters -- near where Palczynski lives -- early yesterday morning.
As the search continued yesterday morning, about 100 friends and family members gathered at a Dundalk funeral home to remember one of the first victims of the shootings.
David Meyers, 42, the neighbor who was killed trying to help Whitehead, was described as a "hero" and "filled with love."
Sun staff writers Tim Craig and Mark Ribbing contributed to this article.
Originally published on Mar 12 2000
http://www.sunspot.net/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?section=cover&pagename=story&storyid=1150280206566
Wet weather slows hunt for fugitive
Palczynski escapes to Virginia, comes back to Bowleys Quarters; Mother begs for surrender; Nervous residents of E. Baltimore County lock doors, get weapons
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By Nancy A. Youssef
And Tanoah Morgan Sun Staff
While Joseph C. Palczynski's mother pleaded late last night for him to turn himself in, police continued their search for the man suspected in four killings who fled briefly to Virginia before returning home to eastern Baltimore County, where residents have grown increasingly nervous.
Hampered by the bad weather, which grounded aerial surveillance and dulled the trail for bloodhounds, law enforcement authorities combed the Bowleys Quarters area all day yesterday but did not find him.
They said they discovered early yesterday that Palczynski -- who is 31 and described as a lifelong outdoorsman -- had escaped Friday to Virginia, stolen weapons from a home there and forced a Virginia man early yesterday to drive him back to the eastern side of Baltimore County, where the events began Tuesday.
Despite rain and poor visibility, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, state police and Baltimore County police continued their round-the-clock search for Palczynski yesterday in the woods and on the streets.
Residents who have been captivated and terrified by the week's events in the typically quiet eastern Baltimore County community have armed themselves with baseball bats, loaded guns and knives scattered through their homes.
At a news conference at 10: 30 p.m. yesterday, Palczynski's mother, Patricia Long, appealed to her son to surrender. "Please come home. I know you're very tired. I know you're weary," she said.
"When you hurt people, you hurt me," she said, starting to cry. "You can't do this to me anymore." After she spoke, a member of the Baltimore County hostage negotiatingteam hugged her.
Police believe Palczynski is wearing layers of clothing -- some camouflage, some flannel -- and is carrying a .22-caliber revolver. He might also have a knife, they said.
About 8 p.m. yesterday, search teams thought they had sighted Palczynski near his mother's home, but nothing turned up.
"He just keeps popping up," one police officer said. "It appears he has some unfinished business here. We just don't know what it is." Another officer said they were "not ruling out" the possibility that friends in the Middle River area might be helping him.
"He's smart. He's daring. He has been in an element that he has been very comfortable with," said Maj. Brian Uppercue, a county police spokesman, referring to the thick woods where Palczynski is believed to be hiding.
"The officers are hesitant to go into dark woods because they can be ambushed," he said.
The shootings this week and subsequent searches have brought the community to a standstill, especially in the evening when many storekeepers are shutting their doors early, replacing their typical goodbyes to customers with warnings to "be careful" and "get home before dark."
Court records show Palczynski has a history of mental illness and has repeatedly assaulted former girlfriends and their families.
Neighbors in the heavily wooded waterfront community hurried home yesterday to lock themselves indoors and break out weapons for protection.
"I borrowed a small handgun that we keep in the house loaded now," said Jim Marcum as he shopped for food and bird feed at a local Safeway. "I think a lot of people are on guard."
Carl Pucci echoed his neighbors' concerns from the parking lot of a Rite-Aid drugstore.
"I've put knives in strategic locations, so if he came in we would have something around," he said. "It's incredible that one person can cause such a stir and disrupt so many people's lives."
Sandy Bochenek, who lives about a mile from the apartment complex where Tuesday's shootings occurred, said she won't have a gun in the house with her toddler daughter, but "I went to my mother's and got a baseball bat because our dogs would just lick him to death."
Palczynski has been hunted since Tuesday evening when, police say, he went to an apartment in the 3700 block of White Pine Road, kidnapped his estranged girlfriend Tracy Whitehead, 22, and fatally shot two people who had taken her in -- 49-year-old George Shenk and his wife, Gloria, 50. Palczynski is accused of gunning down 42-year-old David Michael Meyers, a neighbor of the Shenks, when he came to Whitehead's aid.
Police believe Palczynski surfaced again shortly before 8 p.m. Wednesday, fatally shooting Jennifer McDonel, 37, in her car at the 8600 block of Ebenezer Road during an attempted carjacking. A 2-year-old boy riding with his mother in another car was also grazed by a pellet from the carjacker's shotgun, police said.
Within minutes, police say, he stole a car at gunpoint from an 81-year-old Rosedale woman who was not injured.
Two hours later, at a Rosedale motel, Whitehead escaped her captor, who fled on foot, leaving behind the stolen car with a shotgun and rifle, police said.
Federal investigators have charged Constance Ann Waugh, 48, of the 12500 block of Gracewood Ave. in Chase, with illegally purchasing the weapons Palczynski used in the killings.
Friday afternoon, Baltimore County police were in southeastern Harford County looking for Palczynski, but they later theorized that he had hopped a freight train to southwestern Caroline County, Va., about 120 miles south of Washington, D.C.
Virginia State Police reported that sometime after 7: 30 a.m. Friday, a man believed to be Palczynski broke into a home near the railroad and stole a 1989 Ford pickup truck, a 12-gauge shotgun, a .22-caliber revolver, food and clothing. He headed north on Interstate 95.
When the truck ran out of gas about 25 miles later near Woodford, the man ditched it -- and the shotgun -- walked to a nearby brick rancher and forced 53-year-old William Terrell to drive him back to Baltimore County.
He first offered Terrell about $100 to drive him back to Maryland but Terrell refused, police said. He then displayed a handgun and Terrell complied, police said.
"I can only tell you he came to the door agitated [and] asking if someone could take him to get gas," said Investigator J. E. "Skip" Samuels, of the Caroline County (Va.) Sheriff's Office. "There was no physical confrontation."
Eight hours later, Terrell's wife reported him missing to the sheriff's office, which notified the FBI. Mrs. Terrell told officials the gunman gave her a different name, but Palczynski's mother's address.
Police found the Terrells' truck on Carrollwood Road in Bowleys Quarters -- near where Palczynski lives -- early yesterday morning.
As the search continued yesterday morning, about 100 friends and family members gathered at a Dundalk funeral home to remember one of the first victims of the shootings.
David Meyers, 42, the neighbor who was killed trying to help Whitehead, was described as a "hero" and "filled with love."
Sun staff writers Tim Craig and Mark Ribbing contributed to this article.
Originally published on Mar 12 2000