The Week’s Best of Police and Fire Reporting

From the latest discovery in the case of a missing teenage girl to incarcerated fathers reading to their children, here are the police and crime stories that unfolded in our part of Maryland this week.

• The North Carolina teenager had been missing since December, when she was visiting family in Baltimore. But Wednesday morning the female body found in the Susquehanna River was confirmed to be that of 16-year-old Phylicia Barnes. Read more about and how detectives plan to focus their efforts on answering .
• A Catonsville-based program works with dads at the Baltimore County Detention Center in Towson to promote family reading in correctional facilities. To find out more about the nonprofit Turning Pages Family Reading Club don’t miss this .
• A 19-year-old Columbia man is in critical condition after he was shot while visiting a friend in Ellicott City on Monday night.  to find the suspect and are offering a reward to the tune of $2,500 for anyone who provides information resulting in an arrest.
• A man who is in prison for murdering his wife in Owings Mills in 2008 has been linked to a rape that occurred in Reisterstown in 2001, police say. Learn more about the DNA evidence that has come to light on .
• The vehicle of Francis Scott Key High School coach Timothy Patrick Walsh was hit nearly head-on by a dump truck Wednesday morning, according to Maryland State Police. Read the full story on .