Carryout

MENTZERS CARRYOUT, 16952 York Road in the Hereford Plaza at the intersection of York and Mount Carmel roads. Open 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. 343-1333.Bustling waitresses, a large menu and the smells of pizza and spaghetti sauce all describe this small country carryout in Hereford located at a busy country intersection.Subs, sandwiches, pizzas are all available, as well as homemade specials including such goodies as a big plate of spaghetti and garlic bread for $2.95.

A Baltimore teenager pleaded guilty to murder Monday as his trial was set to begin, following a failed attempt last week to have a confession withheld from jurors in the case. Markell Shelton Jones, 18, shot and killed Freddie Jones Jr. at the Yau Brothers Chinese carryout on Greenmount Avenue on Halloween 2011 during a bungled robbery attempt. The attack was captured on surveillance cameras and police released the footage to the press. After Markell Jones' family recognized him on television, his grandfather called police to have him taken into custody, according to testimony at a motions hearing last week.

A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with the Halloween night killing of an Army veteran and airport shuttle bus driver who was in a North Baltimore carryout getting dinner as three masked men robbed the corner establishment. Markell Shelton Jones of the 2300 block of Westerwald Ave. was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, two counts of assault, armed robbery and several handgun counts. He lives about eight blocks from where the slaying occurred, in the Better Waverly neighborhood.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled that a jury will be able to hear the taped confession of a teenage defendant in a murder case, rejecting his lawyers' claim that the police had coerced the statement from him. Markell Shelton Jones and his mother, Lakisha Jones, testified Monday that they had been influenced by police, an argument Robert Linthicum, Jones' attorney, made again Tuesday. "The whole thing basically reeks of coercion," he said. But Judge M. Brooke Murdock said police had done nothing improper in the way they conducted the interviews and said she did not find the defendant's mother credible.

If it's true that what goes around comes around, Crystal Jenkins Jones says she now knows that better than most. Last year, she says, her cousin was one of two people who shot and killed a 72-year-old security guard picking up Chinese food at a carryout on Greenmount Avenue. And on Monday night, Jones' 52-year-old husband, Freddie, was slain in a robbery at the same place. "The death last year happened from a family member of mine," Jones, 43, said Wednesday, standing in a nearby parking lot. "It'll come back to you if somebody takes a life from someone, and it just so happened a life was taken from me. " Baltimore homicide detectives canvassed the Better Waverly, Harwood and Abell neighborhoods of North Baltimore on Wednesday morning in hopes of drumming up tips in the killing of Freddie Jones Jr., an Army veteran and shuttle-bus driver at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

A 72-year-old man was shot inside a Greenmount Avenue carryout early Thursday, according to Baltimore police. An officer responded to the 2900 block of Greenmount Ave. in the Better Waverly neighborhood for a report of a shooting at Yau Bros. carryout at about 12:30 a.m., police said. The officer found the victim lying on the floor with a gunshot wound in his chest, according to police. The man was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m., police said.

A robber got away with an undisclosed amount of cash from Stubby's Pizza, Wings & More, a carryout on Route 140 in Finksburg, Wednesday night after threatening two young employees, Maryland State Police said. A man entered the store in the 2800 block of Baltimore Blvd. (Route 140) about 9 p.m., approached employees and demanded cash from the register, said Trooper Danielle Barry of the criminal investigation section. Owner John Hunt said the business was robbed about a year ago in a similar manner.

Working near the Inner Harbor has its advantages around mealtime. In addition to the restaurants and food stalls in Harborplace, there are numerous eateries for blocks in any direction. One of the more exotic options is Afghan Kabob, which opened four months ago in a sunny space at the corner of Lombard and Charles streets. The menu is small, and so is the space in this glorified carryout. But the food and service far exceed the quality of the average glorified carryout. In fact, both are better than some of the more formal places I've been to in the neighborhood.

A retired Baltimore City police officer shot and critically injured a man who tried to rob a carryout near Pimlico Race Course , city police said Wednesday night. A 25-year-old man walked into Judy's Island Grill & Bake Shop in the 5200 block of Park Heights Ave. and brandished a handgun, city police spokesman Kevin Brown said. The 63-year-old retired police officer, who was exiting the restaurant, shot the gunman once, Brown said. The unidentified man was taken to an area hospital and is not expected to survive his injuries, Brown said.

A 52-year-old man died after being shot during a robbery at a carryout restaurant in Better Waverly on Monday night, renewing concerns in the community about the crime connected to the beleaguered business. The Yau Brothers carryout, in the 2900 block of Greenmount Ave., was closed Tuesday, as it was after similar shooting incidents in the past two years: In 2010, 72-year-old security guard Charles Bowman was fatally shot in a robbery there, a year after three men were shot following a fight that broke out inside.

The family of 17-year-old Markell Jones was watching the television news one night in November 2011, authorities say, when the broadcaster introduced surveillance tape footage of the killing of an Army veteran inside a Greenmount Avenue carryout. Relatives recognized Jones on the tape, authorities say. After talking it over, they called police, and Markell gave a full confession - and a written letter of apology to the victim's daughter. It appeared to be a clean, closed case.

Antoine Darnell Phipps, 30, was sentenced to life in prison plus 25 years for shooting a carryout customer outside a West Baltimore restaurant in August 2010 because he was "angered by a mistaken food order," the Baltimore State's Attorney's Office announced Thursday. Phipps waited outside the "Sumtin Fishee" eatery on the corner of Strickland and Baltimore streets and ambushed Roger Jones as the man walked to his motorcycle, the prosecutor's office said. Jones was shot in his right hip and left arm. A Baltimore jury convicted Phipps, of the 1500 block of W. Fayette St., of attempted murder and related handgun crimes in January.

Police were investigating a fatal shooting that occurred Thursday afternoon in Southwest Baltimore, while a man was expected to survive a shooting that occurred Wednesday night at a Northwest Baltimore carryout. Officers were called to the 500 block of Edgewood St. in the Allendale community at 1:08 p.m. for a report that a man had been shot in the head, police said. The victim, tentatively described as a 30-year-old, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma center, where he died at 1:40 p.m. Additional details were not available.

One of two men who killed a 72-year-old customer during a holdup at a Waverly carryout in April 2010 was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison, according to the Baltimore state's attorney's office. Michael Hunter, 20, of the 300 block of E. Belvedere Ave. was convicted in September of first-degree murder, three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a crime and armed robbery. Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill handed down a 70-year sentence but suspended 20 years.

A 17-year-old has been arrested and charged with the Halloween night killing of an Army veteran and airport shuttle bus driver who was in a North Baltimore carryout getting dinner as three masked men robbed the corner establishment. Markell Shelton Jones of the 2300 block of Westerwald Ave. was charged as an adult with first-degree murder, two counts of assault, armed robbery and several handgun counts. He lives about eight blocks from where the slaying occurred, in the Better Waverly neighborhood.

If it's true that what goes around comes around, Crystal Jenkins Jones says she now knows that better than most. Last year, she says, her cousin was one of two people who shot and killed a 72-year-old security guard picking up Chinese food at a carryout on Greenmount Avenue. And on Monday night, Jones' 52-year-old husband, Freddie, was slain in a robbery at the same place. "The death last year happened from a family member of mine," Jones, 43, said Wednesday, standing in a nearby parking lot. "It'll come back to you if somebody takes a life from someone, and it just so happened a life was taken from me. " Baltimore homicide detectives canvassed the Better Waverly, Harwood and Abell neighborhoods of North Baltimore on Wednesday morning in hopes of drumming up tips in the killing of Freddie Jones Jr., an Army veteran and shuttle-bus driver at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.

The family of 17-year-old Markell Jones was watching the television news one night in November 2011, authorities say, when the broadcaster introduced surveillance tape footage of the killing of an Army veteran inside a Greenmount Avenue carryout. Relatives recognized Jones on the tape, authorities say. After talking it over, they called police, and Markell gave a full confession - and a written letter of apology to the victim's daughter. It appeared to be a clean, closed case.

One of two men who killed a 72-year-old customer during a holdup at a Waverly carryout in April 2010 was sentenced Wednesday to 50 years in prison, according to the Baltimore state's attorney's office. Michael Hunter, 20, of the 300 block of E. Belvedere Ave. was convicted in September of first-degree murder, three counts of using a handgun in the commission of a crime and armed robbery. Baltimore Circuit Judge Lawrence P. Fletcher-Hill handed down a 70-year sentence but suspended 20 years.

A 52-year-old man died after being shot during a robbery at a carryout restaurant in Better Waverly on Monday night, renewing concerns in the community about the crime connected to the beleaguered business. The Yau Brothers carryout, in the 2900 block of Greenmount Ave., was closed Tuesday, as it was after similar shooting incidents in the past two years: In 2010, 72-year-old security guard Charles Bowman was fatally shot in a robbery there, a year after three men were shot following a fight that broke out inside.

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