Baltimore officer fatally shoots stabbing suspect

A Baltimore County police officer shot and killed a knife-wielding Reisterstown man suspected of stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend hours earlier in his home, authorities said.

Police went searching for Russell C. Barnes, 43, Monday evening after he dialed 911 from a cell phone to say he?d killed someone, Cpl. Michael Hill said. Authorities traced the phone to his house, in the 100 block of Westminster Road, and discovered Jamie A. Nichols, a 43-year-old mother of three, dead on the first floor, Hill said.