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BALTIMORE COUNTY
Hotel Dead Were N.Y. Family in Murder-Suicide
The four people who were found dead Monday in a Towson hotel room were identified yesterday as William Parente, 59, his wife, Betty, 58, and their children, Stephanie, 19, and Catherine, 11. Police said the deaths appeared to be a murder-suicide.
The family lived in Garden City, N.Y., and the father was a lawyer with a Manhattan firm. Stephanie was a sophomore at Loyola College in Maryland in Baltimore, and the other three had apparently come to the area to visit her.
They were not shot or stabbed, and one of the parents was probably responsible for the murder-suicide, Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police spokesman, said yesterday. He declined to give details or say whether a motive was known. He would not say whether a suicide note was found in the family's room at the Sheraton Baltimore North.
-- Baltimore Sun
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
Victims of Fatal Crash in Laurel Identified
Prince George's County police have identified the three young men who were killed Saturday when their car hit a tree, a utility pole and a fire hydrant and then skidded off Muirkirk Road in Laurel.
The three were Michael Jackson, 23, of Silver Spring; Joshua Murden, 26, of Bowie; and Donald Jordan, 25, of Rockville. A fourth person who was in the car -- identified as Natash McCallough, 27, whose address has not been determined -- remained hospitalized in critical condition, police said.
The crash victims were in a 2001 Lexus. Police said it appeared that alcohol use and excessive speed were factors in the crash.
