Bullets

Even as relatives and friends held a funeral Monday to mourn a young mother killed by a stray bullet, Baltimore police pushed to solve a spate of killings that has left 10 dead in the past 10 days. Dozens of mourners passed the open casket of LaRelle Ashlyn Amos, the former high school honor student who was killed after a family party in the early morning hours of Sept. 2. Geron Mills, the man Amos had called "the love of my life," placed his hand on his own chest, then on hers. "I took my heart out and put it in there with her," Mills, the father of Amos' 1-year-old son, Geron II, said as he addressed more than 700 people at St. Stephens AME Church in Essex.

A 48-year-old woman was slightly injured Wednesday when an unidentified man fired shots into her home in Baltimore's Hanlon-Longwood neighborhood near Garrison Boulevard. The suspect rang the door bell at the residence in the 3400 block of Carlisle Avenue and demanded to see a person, who was unknown to the woman, police said. The intruder shot several times into the security door to the home, police said. One shot grazed the woman's face. She is being treated at an area hospital, police said.

Since Larry Mitchell's days as a lineman at Patterson, he has dreamed of only one job - coaching the Clippers' football team. Over the past 17 years, as Mitchell coached Pop Warner youth football teams and assisted with a couple other Baltimore City high school football programs, he held onto that goal - even after a gunman nearly shattered it with one paralyzing bullet 11 years ago. That shooting left Mitchell, who had inadvertently walked into...

Baltimore police have charged a man in a triple shooting that killed two brothers in Southwest Baltimore, a crime that investigators believe led to the retaliatory killing of the mother and brother of one of the suspects. But any celebration over closing a case that police feared would led to further reprisals was muted, as gun violence in the city continued to take its toll with the unrelated shooting Sunday night of a 9-year-old boy in Druid Heights. Police said the unidentified boy was struck in the hip and critically wounded about 11 p.m. in the 400 block of Bloom St. Two men in their 20s, who police said were "well-known to law enforcement," were also struck and appeared to be the intended victims.

Sterling Watts, the Reisterstown teen at the center of an attempted murder investigation in which Baltimore County police killed a sword-wielding man Friday, is in stable condition with a bullet lodged in his brain, his father said Saturday. Watts hasn't spoken with police about Friday's incident, his father, Randolph Watts, said. Ronald Melvin Cox, the uncle of one of Sterling Watts' accused attackers, swung a large sword at police executing a search warrant in Reisterstown.

June 19, 1980: Running the bases against the Oakland A's, the Orioles' John Lowenstein is drilled in the neck with the ball and collapses. Carried off on a stretcher to polite applause, he suddenly sits bolt upright, raises his arms and clenches both fists for the home crowd, which goes nuts. "It was semi-spontaneous," the offbeat Lowenstein tells reporters. "You have to acknowledge the cheers of the fans, and I sure as hell wasn't going to come back out after the game. " The Orioles win, 4-3. June 18, 1979: Outraged by a call against the Orioles in Cleveland, manager Earl Weaver waves a rule book in the face of umpire Larry Barnett, then proceeds to tear it to shreds: "As Weaver ripped," The Sun reports, "little bits of paper began flying all over the infield and two members of the grounds crew came running from the bullpen for a quick cleanup job. " Booted from the game, Weaver pauses and tips his cap to the cheering crowd.

The mother of a young girl hit with a stray bullet fired by a juvenile offender who was under GPS tracking is seeking millions of dollars from the state vendor that provides the monitoring, claiming in a lawsuit that the company knew its product was flawed. The suit was filed in U.S. District Court this week by Danielle Brooks, whose daughter, Raven Wyatt, was 5 years old when she was struck by a bullet and suffered catastrophic injuries. The girl is now 8, and the family's attorney estimates her care could cost more than $7 million over her lifetime.

How selected sports, teams and schools are represented in the Top 175: BASEBALL PLAYERS: 39 Orioles (1954-current): 21 Orioles (1882-1899): 5 Minor league Orioles (1903-1914, 1916-1953): 2 FOOTBALL PLAYERS: 38 Colts (1953-1983): 14 Ravens: 7 Maryland players: 5 Morgan State players: 3 Johns Hopkins players: 2 Maryland State (UMES) players: 2 Navy players: 2 Baltimore Colts (1947-1950): 1 BASKETBALL PLAYERS: 35 Maryland men's players: 10 Bullets (1963-current Wizards franchise)

Gettysburg has a slight 2-1 lead in the series and defeated Stevenson, 12-7, in a NCAA tournament semifinal in 2009. The Bullets (11-6) had dropped their three previous contests until beating Ohio Wesleyan, 7-4, in the first round on Wednesday. The Mustangs (16-4) have won 11 of 12 games at home this season, most recently against Birmingham-Southern in the first round. Here are a few factors that could influence this NCAA tournament second-round contest at Mustang Stadium in Owings Mills Saturday night.

Forty-four years later, what sticks in Wes Unseld's mind is a reception he got on his arrival in Baltimore as the Bullets' top pick in the 1968 NBA draft. Welcoming, it was not. "I was watching TV in my room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, and this sportscaster, Charley Eckman, came on. He was screaming and hollering that the Bullets were idiots for drafting a slow, 6-foot-7 center from Louisville," Unseld recalled. "Well, Charlie was wrong. I was 6-foot-6. " Then Unseld, the second player picked in the draft, stepped onto the basketball court and took the skeptics to task.