Incident

A Bunker Hill, W.Va. man faces charges in connection with a Sunday night incident in which police allege a man entered a Martinsburg house and fired a gun into the floor. Justin W. Willingham, 20, was charged with six counts of wanton endangerment, burglary, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, and obstructing an officer, the Martinsburg Police Department said in a press release. At about 9:26 p.m., police responded to a report of shots fired in the 1400 block of New York Avenue, the release said.

A Waynesboro man faces several criminal charges after an incident that apparently started at Break-Away Sports Lounge and ended when he ran his vehicle off the road early Sunday. Andrew Costlow, of 425 Seventh St., was charged with disorderly conduct, harassment, aggravated assault, fleeing and eluding police, and driving under the influence, Waynesboro police said in a news release. Costlow was “picking fights at the bar” on South Potomac Street, police said. He left in a vehicle, re-entered the parking lot and crashed, and left again, police said.

A Rohrersville man turned himself in to police Sunday after he fired a weapon and threatened suicide the morning before near his home on Locust Grove Road, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Kirk Kline, 31, of 20326 Locust Grove Road, notified authorities that he wanted to turn himself in Sunday morning after police conducted a daylong search. He was taken into custody without incident, deputies said in a news release. Kline was charged with one count of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, one count of malicious destruction of property and five counts of reckless endangerment, police said.

The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said it was investigating a Wednesday incident that involved a soda-bottle bomb being detonated in the driveway of a home on Broadfording Road near Hagerstown. The incident happened at about 3 a.m. Wednesday when someone threw fireworks then detonated the soda-bottle bomb in the driveway of a home at 17620 Broadfording Road, according to a Fire Marshal's Office news release. The Fire Marshal's Office said an investigator was at the scene for two hours.

Police said they are looking for an individual who stabbed a male near the Hedgesville Food Lion store Sunday night. The victim told police that he was approached by a teenager asking for money, according to the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department, which was notified at about 6:37 p.m. The victim said that as he got closer to the teenager, the teenager stabbed him in the stomach, police said. When the victim was bent over, he was hit in the head with a bottle, police said.

A 23-year-old man who was struck and apparently killed by a train in Jefferson County on Sunday night had been walking on the railroad tracks with his girlfriend to a friend's house in Ranson just before the incident happened, police said Tuesday. Michael William Johnson, of Ranson, was struck by a Norfolk Southern train in the vicinity of Universal Forest Products off 16th Avenue near Ranson at about 11:50 p.m. Sunday, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Johnson's body was dragged about 350 feet after he was struck by the train, according to the sheriff's department.

Maryland State Police said a man died Sunday morning of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while he was parked in the lot of a southern Washington County church. Members of Faith Christian Fellowship were attending church at the time of the incident, according to Washington County Emergency Services. The incident was reported at about 10:10 a.m. Sunday. The church is at 16726 Lappans Road, otherwise known as Md. 68, between Downsville Pike and Williamsport. - Julie E. Greene

A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle Friday night in the 2600 block of Lincoln Way West, a Franklin County Emergency Services dispatcher said. The incident was reported at 6:15 p.m. near the intersection of Shatzer Orchard Road just west of Chambersburg, the dispatcher said. The severity of the pedestrian's injuries was unknown, but Pennsylvania State Police had attempted to call in a helicopter, the dispatcher said. Lincoln Way West was closed in the area of the incident, the dispatcher said.

INWOOD, W.Va. - West Virginia State Police said an armed robbery occurred at the Hot Spot Cafe in Inwood on Saturday about 12:10 a.m. Trooper J.S. Chumley said no one was injured in the incident and the robber or robbers remain at large. No further information about the incident was available.

There was drama outside the courthouse Wednesday when plainclothes Hagerstown City Police in unmarked vehicles surrounded a Ford Escape outside the District Court building on West Antietam Street. About 10 minutes before noon police pulled over the Escape and - with guns drawn - took three men and a woman away to police headquarters. Lt. Tom Langston said the incident was related to an investigation into “a recent crime of violence” in the city, but he declined to be more specific.

The Hagerstown Police Department responded to the following incidents: Sunday • At 3:43 p.m., a property damage accident was reported in the first block of Manor Drive. • At 4:21 p.m., police assisted EMS in the 200 block of North Mulberry Street. • At 5:50 p.m., a theft was reported in the first block of Church Street. • At 6:39 p.m., a theft was reported in the first block of East Baltimore Street. • At 6:58 p.m., warrant service was conducted in the 500 block of Claire Street.

Hagerstown police say four shootings in the city over the past week were retaliatory strikes between the Bloods and Crips street gangs. Lt. Tom Langston said Monday that the first incident occurred at about 7 p.m. April 15 behind a house in the 200 block of North Jonathan Street, where a man he alleged is associated with the Bloods exchanged gunfire with a juvenile associate of the Crips. At first, police believed the adult was the only person who was shot, but an investigation determined that a juvenile also was hit. Langston said both sustained non-life-threatening gunshot wounds.

A medical practice was evacuated Wednesday after Martinsburg police said a 70-year-old Inwood, W.Va., man became angry and pointed a gun at an employee upon being told he would need to change his clothes for an X-ray, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. No one was injured in the incident, which occurred in the Center for Orthopedic Excellence at 1008 Tavern Road in Martinsburg, according to court documents. William Michael Holmes, 70, of 52 Myatt Court, was arraigned on one misdemeanor count of brandishing a deadly weapon by Magistrate Harry L. Snow and was released from custody after bail was posted, according to court documents.

Leslie LeBlanc of Hagerstown, who has family living in Massachusetts, said she could not reach her niece, who lives in Boston, for several hours after the Monday explosions during the Boston Marathon that left three people dead and scores injured. “That was a real source of concern for us,” she said Tuesday. LeBlanc, 55, described the explosions as “disconcerting,” but said she does not feel any less safe because of them, nor is she worried about something happening in Hagerstown or to her family in Massachusetts.

A Frederick, Md., man was found not guilty by a jury this week in Washington County Circuit Court of second-degree attempted murder, but guilty of the armed robbery of three women at Motel 6 last year. Judge Daniel P. Dwyer ordered a presentence report be prepared before sentencing for Tony Anthony Jones, 24, formerly of 1153 Orchard Terrace. In addition to three counts of armed robbery, Jones was also convicted of first-degree assault for stabbing one of the women during the May 21, 2012, incident.

Family members of Wayne Jones, who died March 13 from multiple gunshot wounds when five Martinsburg police officers tried to arrest him during an altercation, claimed at a news conference Wednesday that Jones was struck 15 times by police bullets. The incident is being investigated by West Virginia State Police. The results of an autopsy performed on Jones, 50, of Stephens City, Va., have not been released. “The case is still under investigation,” Berkeley County Prosecutor Pamela Games-Neely said Wednesday.

A 30-year-old man was being held on $80,000 bond after being accused of assaulting two men over the weekend in a dispute over marijuana, according to Washington County District Court records. Joshua Aaron Kershner, no fixed address, was charged Saturday with three counts of simple assault and two counts of false imprisonment, court records said. Originially detained on $100,000, Kershner's bond was lowered to $80,000 during a bond review hearing Monday before District Judgfe Ralph H. France II. Shortly after midnight on Saturday, Hagerstown police responded to an assault report at an apartment on the first block of East Baltimore Street, the charging document said.

The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said it was investigating a Wednesday incident that involved a soda-bottle bomb being detonated in the driveway of a home on Broadfording Road near Hagerstown. The incident happened at about 3 a.m. Wednesday when someone threw fireworks then detonated the soda-bottle bomb in the driveway of a home at 17620 Broadfording Road, according to a Fire Marshal's Office news release. The Fire Marshal's Office said an investigator was at the scene for two hours.