A dead goose fell from the sky Thursday and knocked a waterfowl hunter unconscious. 
 
 Robert Meilhammer, a 51-year-old resident of Crapo in Dorchester County, was hunting as part of a larger party near the Miles River around 5 p.m. when a flock of geese flew overhead. The group fired on birds. 
 
 One goose fell, striking Meilhammer and knocking him out. 
 
 “One of the members of the hunting party shot and killed the goose,” said Maryland Natural Resources Police spokeswoman Candy Thomson. “It is unclear which one it was.” 
 
 Meilhammer suffered head and facial injuries, and was airlifted to Maryland Shock Trauma, Thomson said. 
 
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 twitter.com/TaliRichman ||||| Man charged with shooting friend in botched test of bulletproof vest 
 
 Victim proclaimed on video he was ready to be shot before errant bullet 
 
 Officers were called to the hospital around 4 a.m., police said. Detectives found the Cannon EO7 video camera in the basement and got a warrant for the footage, which showed the incident described in charging documents against Ramiro. 
 
 The video ends as Ramiro dropped the gun and both friends rushed to Mitchell's aid. They drove from Ramiro's apartment in the 2200 block of Cedley St. to University of Maryland Medical Center, where Mitchell was pronounced dead within minutes, police said. 
 
 But, police said, Mark Ramiro missed the body armor when he pulled the trigger on the .22 caliber handgun, and he now faces murder charges in the 28-year-old's death. 
 
 Three people stood in the basement of a Westport home before 4 a.m. Wednesday to film a stunt in which they planned to test a bulletproof vest. Darnell Mitchell put it on, looked into a video camera and proclaimed himself ready to take "deuce deuce in the chest." 
 
 Ramiro's mother referred a reporter to his attorney, Christopher Flohr, who could not be reached Thursday night. 
 
 Ramiro faces first- and second-degree murder and two gun charges, police said. 
 
 A spokesman for the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office referred questions about the severity of the charges to the city court comissioner's office. Representatives there could not be reached for comment Thursday night. 
 
 The state's attorney's spokesman, Mark Cheshire, said city prosecutors had sought the second-degree murder charge, but the court commissioner imposed an additional first-degree charge. Asked why prosecutors sought the murder charge at all, Cheshire said only that, after an investigation, "we thought that was the appropriate charge." 
 
 In a separate case, a 40-year-old Baltimore man was charged Thursday with shooting a man in the leg and groin after the two got into a knife fight in the 800 block of N. Belnord Ave. in East Baltimore Tuesday night. 
 
 When a heated argument escalated between Nathaniel Jerome McElveen Jr. and the victim, who was not identified, the two pulled out pocket knives and began to fight, police said. 
 
 Nursing a cut to his head, McElveen retrieved an automatic .45 caliber handgun from his nearby home and shot the 33-year-old man twice, police said. The man knocked the gun from McElveen's hand, picked it up and hit McElveen with it, police said. The two continued to struggle as someone in a crowd of onlookers grabbed the gun and left the scene, police said. 
 
 Officers and medics were called to the scene, and both men were taken to the emergency room at Johns Hopkins Hospital. McElveen was treated for the cut on his head, and the second man awaits surgery on a fractured right femur, police said. 
 
 McElveen faces attempted first- and second-degree murder, assault, reckless endangerment and several gun charges, police said. 
 
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 twitter.com/cmcampbell6 ||||| Federal investigators are on the scene trying to figure out what led to a deadly collision between a school bus and MTA bus in Baltimore. It happened during the morning commute, before the school bus had picked up any students. Six people died and two people remained in critical condition as of Tuesday evening. News4's Meagan Fitzgerald reports. (Published Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016) 
 
 Six people died Tuesday morning in a "horrific" crash that involved a Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) bus, a school bus and a Mustang, Baltimore City Police said. 
 
 Five of at least 13 people aboard the MTA bus were killed, including the 33-year-old woman driving; the 67-year-old man driver of the school bus also died. The medical examiner will try to determine whether he suffered a medical emergency before the crash. 
 
 A 61-year-old woman, 51-year-old man, 46-year-old woman and 32-year-old man also died. 
 
 An aide who suffered minor injuries was the only other person aboard the school bus at the time of the crash; no children were aboard. The school bus had been on its way to pick up a student four or five blocks away, Baltimore police spokesman Chief T.J. Smith said. 
 
 He called the site of the crash a "horrific" scene, saying it's the worst he's seen in his career. 
 
 School Bus Hit Mustang, Pillar Before Crashing Into MTA Bus 
 
 The crash happened about 7 a.m. at Frederick Avenue and Monastery Road in Baltimore. 
 
 According to the investigation, the school bus was headed east on Frederick Avenue when it crashed into a Mustang and careened down the road until it struck the MTA bus head on, ripping off the side of the bus. 
 
 "It literally looks like a bomb exploded in the bus, and it's catastrophic damage," Smith said. 
 
 There were no skid marks at the scene. 
 
 "The way he was going, I thought he had no brakes," witness Bernell James said. "He couldn't stop. He picked up speed and couldn't stop." 
 
 The driver of the Mustang, who crashed into a fence after being struck by the bus, said tearfully that he felt he was lucky to be alive. 
 
 "I saw lights and then I was struck," he said, adding that his heart goes out to the victims. 
 
 A witness said he saw the school bus rear-end the Mustang and keep going. 
 
 "The car stopped there and the bus just kept going, like it picked up more speed," he said. "So it picked up speed and... I guess had a head-on collision with the MTA bus. It sounded like a bomb just exploded, like, 'Boom!' And when you looked up, all you see was the bus just stopped dead in its tracks right there." 
 
 Matthew Feldman, a passing driver, said he was one of the first people at the scene Tuesday morning. He told WJZ-TV that he and another man pulled up and tried to help people before emergency responders arrived. 
 
 Feldman said he and the other man tried to pull glass off of a woman pinned by the door of the MTA bus, and could hear people screaming. He said the driver's side of the MTA bus was a mess of twisted metal. 
 
 8 Taken to Hospitals; Crash Under Investigation 
 
 Ten people were injured, and eight were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to critical, Smith said. A 40-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman are in critical condition. 
 
 Five of those injured -- four women in their mid-20s to mid-40s and a man in his mid-20s -- were taken to Baltimore Shock Trauma, said Dr. Deborah Stein, chief of trauma. A woman has been released. 
 
 "I will say that given the nature of the incident, we certainly had all hands on deck...." Stein said. 
 
 Stein said she did not know which hospitals the other injured people were taken to. 
 
 Smith said mid-morning Tuesday that at least five people were killed on the MTA bus. 
 
 "This is a complicated crash scene," Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said. "It's going to take a lot of resources to get to the bottom of what happened." 
 
 Authorities cannot speculate on the cause of the crash, but Frederick Avenue will remain closed for the investigation for a significant amount of time. 
 
 "Obviously, folks who are on a bus this time of the morning are working folks, and they're on their way to make a living," Davis said. "They're on their way to their jobs, and they're on their way to support their families, so our hearts and prayers go out to them, to their families, to their coworkers as well." 
 
 School Bus in Crash Was From Contracted Company 
 
 School officials said the school bus involved in the fatal crash was contracted from AA Affordable Transportation, a company based in Baltimore. 
 
 The bus provided service to 18 elementary school students, but beginning Wednesday the students will be transported by a bus owned by the city school system, school officials said in a statement Tuesday. 
 
 Officials said these students receive curb-to-curb transportation from their homes to school. The service is provided to students with special needs, students who are homeless and students who receive specialized services such as English for Speakers of Other Languages. 
 
 Gov. Hogan: 'We Are Prepared to Offer Any State Assistance Necessary' 
 
 Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan posted a message expressing his condolences on Facebook. 
 
 "The First Lady and I are deeply saddened to hear of the horrific crash this morning in Southwest Baltimore involving a school bus and an MTA bus," Hogan wrote. "Our deepest condolences go out to the victims and their families in the wake of this tragedy. We will continue to pray for those who were injured, including the individuals in Shock Trauma, as well as the first responders who worked swiftly and continue to care for the injured." 
 
 His statement continued: "Our administration gives our full support to the Baltimore City Police Department as they investigate, and we are prepared to offer any state assistance necessary." 
 
 Police Give Update on 'Horrific' Crash That Killed 6, Hurt 10 
 
 According to a preliminary investigation, a school bus was headed east in Baltimore when it hit a Mustang Tuesday morning and then kept going, hitting a pillar before driving into oncoming traffic, where it struck an MTA bus on the driver's side, ripping off the side of the bus. (Published Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016) 
 
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– "This is highly unusual," says a rep for Maryland Natural Resources Police, and that might be putting it lightly. The Maryland NRP has confirmed that a 51-year-old who was hunting geese with a larger group was rendered unconscious when a dead goose fell from the sky and hit him. Robert Meilhammer regained consciousness as emergency officials arrived on the scene just before 5pm Thursday, but Demarva Now reports the Crapo, Maryland, man struggled to answer questions beyond his name and so was flown to a Baltimore hospital. The Baltimore Sun reports it's unclear which hunter shot the goose, which the Washington Post reports typically weighs about 12 pounds and has a wing span of up to six feet. The Post reports Meilhammer's head injury was initially described as "severe," and that two of his teeth were knocked out by the hit. The Maryland NRP tweeted Friday morning that he was in stable condition and awaiting further tests. (As this hunter tracked a lion, he was shot dead.)