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Shortly after 10:30 p.m., Baltimore police reported a shooting near the intersection of East North and Greenmount avenues. An adult man was shot, police said. Homicide detectives were notified because of the seriousness of his injuries, police said. No other information about the shooting was made available by police Saturday night. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Once a place to wind down during retirement, Johnston Square Apartments, a gray, fairly new multistory apartment complex for seniors along Greenmount Avenue in East Baltimore, has become a safe house. "The majority of people in here stay in here," said Theo Taylor, who rents one of the more than 200 apartments limited to people age 60 and up. "Don't even go out. At dark, everyone files in here. Don't even come out. They just listen to the gunshots. " It wasn't always like this, said residents who live between the 1000 and 2000 blocks of Greenmount Ave., a half-alive commercial corridor interspersed with boarded-up rowhouses, Chinese restaurants and bail bonds services.

There's no marker or plaque along 29th Street west of Greenmount Avenue to mark the site of old Oriole Park.The event that Baltimoreans associate with the wooden grandstands was their demise, a huge fire that broke out in the early morning hours of July 4, 1944. By daybreak, the old stands, in use since 1914, were rubble, twisted metal and ashes."I was there. The whole neighborhood was there that day," said Pearl Suter Dix, who grew up so close to the park she could hear the crack of a bat.The old ballpark seemed to define a lot of living in this part of Baltimore.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m., Baltimore police reported a shooting near the intersection of East North and Greenmount avenues. An adult man was shot, police said. Homicide detectives were notified because of the seriousness of his injuries, police said. No other information about the shooting was made available by police Saturday night. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Baked sweets for sweetheartsWant to give your Valentine a cookie with some heart? Try the elaborately decorated confections from the Old Waverly Tea Room's Donna Beth Joy Shapiro. Big cookies cost about $10, packages of four small ones are about $8. They can be personalized, or Shapiro can order custom-made cutters in almost any shape. The cookies are available at the tea room, 414 E. 31st St., (410) 889-7112, or at Eddie's Market, 3117 St. Paul St., (410) 889-1558.If you're baking something for your sweetheart this Valentine season, think about using fruit snack sheets to make decorations.

P. Austin Dolan, who operated a family-owned saloon on Greenmount Avenue, died Wednesday of heart failure at Oak Crest Village Care Center in Parkville. He was 80.Mr. Dolan was a partner in Dolan's Bar and Grill in the 1900 block of Greenmount Ave."My father pretty much ran the place," said Peter A. Dolan Jr. of Catonsville.Mr. Dolan, a Baltimore native, received his high school diploma from Calvert Hall College and enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He served in the United States as a B-29 crewman and was honorably discharged in 1946.

A 29-year-old woman was raped Thursday morning in the 3700 block of Greenmount Ave. in North Baltimore, police said. The victim said she woke up in her bed just after 4:30 a.m. with a man standing over her, said police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown. The man sexually assaulted her and fled, Brown said. Two children were home, asleep, during the incident and were not harmed. Police ask anyone with any information about this crime to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

A 4-year-old East Baltimore girl was killed yesterday when she ran into a truck while attempting to cross the street in the block where she lived, police said.And a 5-year-old boy from southwest Baltimore, who was struck by a car Wednesday in Waverly, died of his injuries last night, police said.The boy, who lived in the 2500 block of McHenry St., was injured when he and his half-brother were hit by a car as they attempted to cross the 2800 block of Greenmount Ave., police said.About 4:15 p.m. yesterday, LaToya Nicole Butler was crossing the 1500 block of N. Washington St. when she ran into the side of a northbound truck, said Officer Earl Borman of the traffic investigation unit.

Baltimore CityBURGLARY: Northern District -- Someone entered the ABC variety store in the 3000 block of Greenmount Ave. through a side window over the weekend and stole 12 pagers and 40 cans of soft drink, all valued at more than $1,000.BURGLARY: Northern District -- Electronic equipment valued at nearly $30,000 was damaged or destroyed by someone who entered a building owned by WBFF-TV in the 3500 block of Parkdale Ave. between July 19 and yesterday. The intruder also broke several windows and splashed paint on walls.

City drug operation discovered; 2 charged Baltimore police investigating an alarm sounding at a business in Waverly accidentally went into the back of the wrong building and stumbled onto what drug enforcement officers described as a sophisticated marijuana growing and distributing operation. Two people were arrested, and police seized marijuana, suspected heroin and cocaine and three weapons, said Sgt. Donald Kramer, head of the Northern District's drug enforcement unit. Kramer said that about 7:15 p.m., Officers Kevin Rowland and Dennis Bailey responded to a burglar alarm at 3046 Greenmount Ave., and after finding the front of the business secure, went to the back to do further checks.

A man standing inside a Greenmount Avenue dollar store was fatally shot Monday night by a gunman outside the store, police said. The shooting was reported about 5:45 p.m. at a shopping center in the 2800 block of Greenmount Ave. in North Baltimore's Harwood neighborhood. Police said the gunman shot through a door, striking the victim inside. He was later pronounced dead. Police did not immediately identify the victim and did not give a description of the shooter or motive. The shopping center where the shooting occurred is a block south of a Chinese carryout that has been the site of four killings since 2009.

A 29-year-old woman was raped Thursday morning in the 3700 block of Greenmount Ave. in North Baltimore, police said. The victim said she woke up in her bed just after 4:30 a.m. with a man standing over her, said police spokesman Detective Kevin Brown. The man sexually assaulted her and fled, Brown said. Two children were home, asleep, during the incident and were not harmed. Police ask anyone with any information about this crime to call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

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.

A man was fatally shot in the chest Monday evening at a carryout restaurant in the 2900 block of Greenmount Avenue in Waverly, Baltimore police reported. Police received a call about 6:45 p.m. of a robbery, said Det. Jeremy Silbert, a department spokesman. The first officer to arrive found a man who had been shot at least once, in the chest. Police said Tuesday morning that the victim had been pronounced dead at 7:15 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police believe the man was being robbed, said Silbert; three men had been seen fleeing on foot.

John P. Gach, a bibliophile and a nationally known bookseller who specialized in rare books devoted to the human sciences, died of a heart attack Dec. 20 at his Randallstown home. He was 63. Mr. Gach, the son of a carpenter and a homemaker, was born in New York City and raised in Pikesville. After graduating from Loyola High School in 1964, he went to work as manager of Gordon's of Orleans Street, a now-closed Pikesville seafood house. In the late 1960s, when he wasn't busy selling crab cakes, Mr. Gach fancied himself a struggling poet.

2 missing teens are found Two 16-year-old Anne Arundel County girls who had been missing for more than a week have been found, police said yesterday. Ramona Jones and Shannon Brewer were found together in Prince George's County by Prince George's police, Anne Arundel County police said. The girls were found about 11:30 p.m. Monday near Columbia Park Road and East Marlboro Avenue in Landover, and were safely returned to their families, police said. The girls had disappeared after leaving Arundel High School on March 9. Veterans Hwy. gas leak repairs are completed Crews finished repairing a broken gas main that had forced the closure of part of Veterans Highway in Millersville last night, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

2 missing teens are found Two 16-year-old Anne Arundel County girls who had been missing for more than a week have been found, police said yesterday. Ramona Jones and Shannon Brewer were found together in Prince George's County by Prince George's police, Anne Arundel County police said. The girls were found about 11:30 p.m. Monday near Columbia Park Road and East Marlboro Avenue in Landover, and were safely returned to their families, police said. The girls had disappeared after leaving Arundel High School on March 9. Veterans Hwy. gas leak repairs are completed Crews finished repairing a broken gas main that had forced the closure of part of Veterans Highway in Millersville last night, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes in Baltimore and Baltimore County.Southern DistrictSuspect charged: A man accused of passing a holdup note to a teller at Bay-Vanguard Savings Bank in the 1500 block of E. Fort Ave. about 3: 10 p.m. Tuesday fled empty-handed when customers entered the bank and was arrested several blocks away, said Detective Joe Phelps of the police robbery squad. The FBI charged Lewis Rodger Nestor, 51, of the 200 block of E. Fort Ave. with attempted robbery. Lewis, who was on probation for bank robbery, is being held by the U.S. Marshals Service on unspecified bail.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Southeastern Victim named -- Police yesterday identified the man shot Monday night in the 6100 block of Boston St. in O'Donnell Heights and who died that night at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center as Artavius Tubman, 24, of the 400 block of Watty Court. Tubman was shot in the head and chest by an unknown assailant and was found by police responding to a report of shots fired. No arrest had been made.

City transportation officials are expecting traffic backups today from 8 a.m. until midnight along Greenmount Avenue from 32nd Street to 33rd Street. Crews will be repairing a break in a 36-inch water main, officials said. Though some lanes will be closed today, the traffic pattern is expected to be restored to normal in time for Monday's rush hour.