Gunman

By CLYDE FORD Staff Writer, Charles Town SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. - A masked gunman robbed the Jefferson Security Bank in Shepherdstown, W.Va., Monday afternoon, fleeing on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. The robber entered the bank about 1:35 p.m., demanding money be put into his black backpack, police said. "He walked in the door and stated, 'Get your money out,'" said one teller, who asked that her name not be used because she feared for her safety. The woman said she was frightened and felt like she was in a "daze.

By TERRY TALBERT Staff Writer The target of a shooting in the 400 block of Park Place in Hagerstown Tuesday morning dodged bullets as he ran from his assailants, and finally escaped uninjured. It was the second time in as many months that Antonio Leon Mooney, 22, was a gunman's target. On Dec. 20, his assailant didn't miss. On that occasion, Mooney was hit twice by shots fired from a small-caliber weapon as he stood in the rear parking lot at 920 W. Washington St. Hagerstown police said Mooney, who is originally from Prince George's County, Md., has been staying in Hagerstown.

HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. - A Hedgesville man was charged Wednesday with kidnapping his former girlfriend, holding a gun to her head and assaulting her, according to West Virginia State Police. cont. from front page Police allege that after being refused service in Ritter's Club on Williamsport Pike at around 2 a.m., John W. Shirley Jr., 49, waited outside for former girlfriend Anna Shaffer, who worked there, and followed her. When Shaffer, 45, arrived at her home at 114 Ashley Court in Hedgesville, police allege he placed a gun to her head as she got out of her 1985 Plymouth station wagon and forced her back into the car. Shaffer alleged that he asked her how she felt about dying and told her he didn't have a problem killing her, according to state police.

charlestown@herald-mail.com Police say a man went on a rampage in the Tuscawilla Hills subdivision Sunday afternoon, destroying property, shooting his sister and then shooting himself as officers closed in on him. Some neighbors watched the events unfold and then ran into their houses when the man shot himself in the forehead with a .243-caliber rifle a short distance from his house on Packett Drive, said Deputy R.L. Fletcher of...

Hagerstown police were investigating a Sunday night armed robbery at the 7-Eleven store at 1623 Dual Highway. The robbery was reported at 9 p.m.. when a man who had been standing in the store for several minutes pulled a handgun and demanded cash and cigarettes from the cashier, police said. The man fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. A K-9 team tracked the robber to an area nearby, but he was not found, police said. The case was remained under investigation Monday morning, police said.

SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) -- As the three hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters appeared ready to make a run for it, police said Thursday that a SWAT team officer quickly shot and killed the increasingly agitated gunman who had explosives strapped to himself, ending the four-hour standoff. After several hours of negotiations, the tactical officers moved in. Authorities saw the hostages begin to move on building security cameras and heard a "pop" they believed to be a gunshot or an explosive device, Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger said.

pepperb@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - The co-worker of a Maugansville woman who was fatally wounded after she was picked up for work Tuesday told police he was chased onto Interstate 81 by the gunman after three shots were fired into his vehicle, according to allegations in charging documents filed in Washington County District Court. Ricky Rinaldo Stallings Jr., 23, whose address is listed in court records as 6088 Molly Pitcher Highway, Apt. 3, in Chambersburg, Pa., faces 16 charges in Washington County related to the shooting death of Mary Elizabeth Williams, 34. During a bond review hearing Thursday, Washington County District Judge M. Kenneth Long Jr. ordered Stallings to be held without bond at the county jail.

WASHINGTON COUNTY - It was Douglas Wayne Pryor's mother who alerted police after being told that her son had killed his children's mother and was driving to his parents' home, according to court documents released Friday. Pryor called two people during a violent spree that left his children's mother and a Smithsburg police officer dead, court records show. Pryor, 29, of 23432 Welty Church Road in Smithsburg, was charged Thursday in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend, Alison Munson, 31, of Halfway, and in the fatal shooting of Smithsburg Police Officer Christopher Shane Nicholson, 25, police said.