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A Baltimore jury Tuesday convicted a couple of paralyzing a 21-year-old man after an argument over a cleaning cart at a BWI Hilton erupted into a high-speed chase and ended in a near-fatal shooting, according to the state's attorney's office. On the night of Oct. 24, 2007, prosecutors said, hotel server Sean Levy got into an argument with another server, Keya Gardner, over the cart. Thinking the dispute was over, Levy agreed to give another co-worker a ride home. But according to prosecutor Patrick Moran, Gardner, 23, called her then-boyfriend, Darryl Newsome, 22, and the two of them chased Levy on Interstate 295 in separate cars into the city, going up to 100 mph. Thinking he had escaped, Levy dropped off the co-worker, but a car with three unidentified men pulled up next to Levy.

A simmering argument between two servers at the BWI Hilton Hotel erupted into a high-speed chase that ended when one server was shot and nearly killed by the other's boyfriend, a Baltimore prosecutor told jurors during opening statements Monday. Describing it as a "wild ride" from the hotel along the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and into the city, prosecutor Patrick Moran said the incident was rooted in a dispute over a cart the servers used to clean after events. On the night of Oct. 24, 2007, server Sean Levy, 19, left the hotel with another co-worker, thinking the argument had been resolved, but Moran said the other server, Keya Gardner, chased after him in her car, with her boyfriend in another car. Thinking he was safe, Levy dropped off a co-worker at his Baltimore home.

On February 16, 2009, beloved wife of J. Donald Gardner, loving mother of Emily Gardner and partner Sean Gray, beloved sister of Nora Leyland and husband Mike Manley, Jennifer Cichonski and husband Mark, Martin Mansfield and wife Christine. She is also survived by a host of other loving relatives and friends. A Memorial Mass will be held on Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 10 A.M at St. John Roman Catholic Church, Wilde Lake Interfaith Center, 10431 Twin Rivers Road, Columbia, MD 21044. Contributions may be made in her memory to: House of Ruth Baltimore, 2201 Argonne Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.

On December 9, 2008, JAYCEE former employee of Potts & Callahan; beloved husband of Gladys Gardner; devoted father of Michael and Anthony Gardner and Kenneth Scarboro. Also survived by four grandchildren, other relatives and friends. Friends may call at THE CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Friday 2 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at Har Sinai Church of Christ, 300 S. Broadway, Saturday 10:30 A.M. Funeral service will begin 11 A.M. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery.

On August 24, 2008, BETTY JEAN, beloved wife of Robert A. Gardner; devoted mother of Gwendolyn, Reggie, Billy, Robin, Roderick and Rodney Gardner. Also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown, Road Friday, 2 to 8 P.M. The family will be present 6 to 8 P.M. Funeral Service will be held at Mt. Calvary AME Church, 300 Eudowood Lane, Towson, MD, Saturday. Wake, 10 A.M. Funeral, 11 A.M. Interment Druid Ridge Cemetery.

Debbie Reichlin had had her fill with the quarter-acre suburban lot, but she wasn't done with gardening. When she and her husband, Doug, moved into Tuscany-Canterbury a few years ago, she found she could plant her flowers and have time to enjoy them, too. See what she did in her small city garden at baltimoresun.com/gardener.

Betty Anne Gardner, a tap dancer who performed on a Baltimore bar at the age of 3 and never lost her love for the spotlight, died of emphysema Friday at the home of her daughter in Baltimore. She was 75. "Her parents owned Leo's Cafe on Montford and Preston streets ... and we have pictures of her up on the bar when she was little," said her daughter, Susan Gardener. Mrs. Gardner studied both ballet and tap, but "mostly she was a tap dancer," her daughter said. In her youth, she studied in the Baltimore studios of Eloise and Joe Tinker, and became one of their best dancers.

Boys Woody Wlodarczyk C. Milton Wright, baseball The three-year starting catcher led the No. 3 Mustangs to the Class 4A state final for the second time, the previous time being in 2006. Wlodarczyk went 4-for-7 with two doubles, a triple, three runs scored and three RBIs in this year's state tournament. On Friday in the state final, a 7-6 loss to Sherwood of Montgomery County in eight innings, Wlodarczyk was 2-for-4, including a double that tied the score in the fifth. Wlodarczyk, who is headed to Harford Community College, led his team in batting average (.513)

A 29-year-old Howard County man was convicted yesterday on charges that he assaulted a man, then ordered him to "stop snitching" and commissioned his beating after they both ended up at the same Anne Arundel County jail. David Thomas Leaken Jr. of the 9000 block of Old Scaggsville Road in Laurel, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and a misdemeanor charge of inducing or inhibiting testimony. Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge William C. Mulford II sentenced Leaken to a 3 1/2 -year suspended sentence and three years' probation for assaulting Derek Gardner, 22, of the 6600 block of Washington Blvd.

Chase Gardner played a big role in Harford Tech making it to yesterday's Class 1A state baseball final. The junior third baseman led the team with a .539 average heading into the state semifinals, where he went 2-for-4. Gardner says he feels fortunate just to be playing at all. He had to make a long recovery from an accident last summer, when he fell off a 3-foot ladder while working in a local retail store, breaking the right occipital bone in his head. He was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and, despite not having surgery, he couldn't do any physical activity for six months.