Reckless Endangerment

Hagerstown Police on Saturday were seeking a 20-year-old man in connection with a Friday afternoon shooting at Washington Gardens Apartments on Security Road. Police said the shooting may have been accidental. Police reported Saturday they are seeking James Clayton Chandler, no fixed address, in connection with the shooting. A warrant was issued charging Chandler with second degree assault, reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm in city limits, police reported. Chandler is sought in connection with the shooting of Thundarr James Bentley, 19, no fixed address.

A woman whose 7-month-old baby drowned in the bathtub while she slept after taking prescription medication pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless endangerment Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court and was given a suspended state prison sentence. “I will never get past this,” Taria Michelle King, 27, said before Judge Daniel P. Dwyer gave her a suspended sentence of 2 1/2 years and placed her on three years of unsupervised probation. A Washington County grand jury in October indicted King on charges of manslaughter and reckless endangerment in the death of 7-month-old Ronald Oliver Jr. at her apartment at 309 E. Ridge Drive, Assistant State's Attorney Brett Wilson told Dwyer.

A citizen's tip led to the arrest Thursday of a Brooklyn, N.Y., man wanted in connection with a Tuesday night shooting on Pennsylvania Avenue. James Clayton Chandler, 23, is charged with second-degree murder, first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, carrying a deadly weapon and several handgun violations, police said. The shooting was reported at 11:55 p.m. in an alley in the 900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, police said. Justin Mitchell, 20, told police he encountered two men at the rear of a nearby residence he was visiting.

A Hagerstown man was charged Thursday with assault after allegedly firing a round from a handgun into the air before aiming it at another person, police said. Shaundu Kendell Carter, 25, of 113 Doub Way, was charged with first-degree and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, carrying a handgun, using a handgun in commission of a crime of violence and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, Hagerstown Police said. Officers said they responded to the 100 block of Buena Vista Avenue for a report of shots being fired.

Hagerstown Police said Friday they were looking for a Washington, D.C., man suspected of firing three shots into the door of a home on Manor Drive earlier this week while eight people were inside. Police said in a news release that they have a warrant for the arrest of Jerry Truevet Payton, 34, whose last known address was on U Street NE in Washington, D.C. Payton is accused of firing a shotgun three times into the front door at 110 Manor Drive, Apt. 2, shortly before midnight Monday.

An individual walked into the lobby of the Hagerstown Police Department Thursday afternoon with a deep laceration to the chin, city police said. An altercation apparently occurred in a residence in the 400 block of West Washington Street, and the victim said he was slashed by a knife, the Hagerstown police said in a news release. The victim walked into the city police lobby, bleeding from the attack, about 4:43 p.m., the release said. The suspect, who was last seen leaving the West Washington Street residence on a bicycle, was found near Burhans Boulevard and Ridge Avenue by a Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputy, police said.

A 17-year-old Hagerstown youth was sentenced Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to serve six months in jail for his part in a shooting last fall. In anticipation of trials for his co-defendants, Shawn Jermaine Lee took the stand and swore under oath Monday that he was not the shooter. Lee, of 312 Belview Ave., and three other people all were charged with firing shots in the Jonathan Street area on Oct. 12, 1998. Monday Lee pleaded guilty to wearing/carrying a handgun in a vehicle and was sentenced by Circuit Judge Donald Beachley, who also placed him on probation for 30 months.

Police log in April 3 Morning Herald Homeowner reports bottle bombs on lawn GREENCASTLE, Pa. - Two homemade bombs were thrown onto an Antrim Township lawn Saturday, Pennsylvania State Police said. The bombs, contained in plastic soda bottles, were thrown onto the front lawn of a Grant Shook Road residence at about 9:45 p.m., police said. No further information was available. Youths allege man fired a gun near them CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Chambersburg man was charged with reckless endangerment after several juveniles were threatened with a gun Friday, Chambersburg Police said.

Three charged in soda bomb explosion Three men were charged Thursday with exploding a "soda bottle bomb" at the front door of Heritage Academy near Hagerstown, the Maryland Fire Marshal's Office said. Andrew Lawrence Calmon, 18, and Benjamin Weston Jones, 18, of Hagerstown, and Brian Michael Lantz, 18, of Boonsboro were each charged with manufacturing and using a destructive device, malicious destruction of property and reckless endangerment, the fire marshal's office said.