Baltimore

Audit: Commissioner should pay for gifts

Baltimore Police Commissioner Edward Norris must pay back more than $8,000 he spent on gifts and perks from a police account, city officials said Friday.

Norris said he was responsible for the “lion’s share” ” about $6,000 ” but that other staff members would have to pay back some of the money.

Norris, who acknowledged spending about $178,000 from the account on perks for himself and his staff, said he was relieved at the audit’s release.

The account, which dated to 1929 and totaled more than $440,000 when Norris was hired in 1999, grew from charitable, stock-invested donations to help the needy. Its purpose changed over time, and it has gone unaudited by city officials, passing through the hands of police commissioners who have managed to keep the fund relatively secret.

Washington

Thanksgiving shooting kills 19-year-old, child

Police said Friday they had no description of a gunman who fired into a Tacoma home on Thanksgiving, killing a woman and 5-year-old boy and wounding two others.

The gunman stood on the front lawn and opened fire at close range into a crowd inside the home, neighbors said.

One witness reported seeing a pickup truck leaving the cul-de-sac after the shooting with its lights off, police spokesman Jim Mattheis said. Police had no description of the suspect or possible motive.

At least three generations of one family lived in the split-level home, neighbors said.

The Pierce County medical examiner identified the victims as Kimberly Riley, 19, and Jeremy Vayiathaong, 5.