Gunmen

A man told police he was walking behind Advance Auto Parts in the 5100 block of Ritchie Highway about 7 p.m. Sunday when he was robbed at gunpoint by two men. Anne Arundel County police the victim told them that two men approached him, pointed a handgun at him and demanded his money and clothes. The victim complied, police said, and then men were seen running toward Brookwood Road from East 11th Avenue in Brooklyn Park.

The man who was shot and killed Friday night in West Baltimore has been identified as a 32-year-old who police say was targeted by two masked gunmen who opened fire in a barber shop in the Franklin Square community. The victim's name was not released pending notification of his relatives. Another man, age 37, also was shot in the incident. He suffered a graze wound to the head, according to police. Police said the double-shooting occurred about 7 p.m. in the 1600 block of West Baltimore St., a street with a mixture of residential rowhouses and commercial businesses.

Two masked gunmen robbed a Severna Park grocery store early Sunday, county police said yesterday.According to the police report, the gunmen lay in wait for the manager of the the Value Food store in the 400 block of Ritchie Highway. When the manager, William Miksa, 57, got out of his car at 6:50 a.m., the two gunmen ran across the parking lot and forced him into the store.The gunmen forced the four employees already inside the store to lie on the floor while the manager opened the safe, police said.

Teresa Lewis, who plotted with a young lover to kill her husband and stepson for insurance money, became the first woman executed in Virginia in nearly 100 years Thursday night when she was killed by lethal injection. Lewis, 41, was a mother who became a grandmother behind bars. Just before she was executed, Lewis asked whether her husband's daughter was in the death chamber. "I want you to know I love you, and I'm sorry for what I did," she said just before her death. She was pronounced dead at 9:13 p.m. Lewis's case generated passion and interest across the world.

In "Gunmen," the machine guns have all the best lines. The automatic pistols should sue, the sawed-off shotguns need a new agent, and the one poor pitiful little revolver is so overwhelmed it seems like a victim of society.As for the actors, they hardly register amid the hardware.This is an oafish, overwrought mock Italian western updated to South America, where the endless fighting centers not on gold or cattle but the profits from cocaine and heroin. It's full of immense close-ups of men with dirty, oily faces and messy hair, and music that sounds like an accordion and a trombone thrown down the stairs.

Gangs of gunmen robbed a downtown jewelry store of gold chains and cash yesterday afternoon and nearly $10,000 in cash from an Asian grocery store on York Road last night, Baltimore police said.The police said the holdups appeared unrelated to each other or to the recent wave of armed robberies at supermarkets, banks and restaurants in the Baltimore area.Three men armed with semiautomatic handguns took only seconds to rob the Gold Rush jewelry store in the 200 block of North Howard Street of several gold chains and an undisclosed amount of cash at about 4:15p.

JERUSALEM -- Masked gunmen shot and killed a senior official in the Palestinian intelligence service and four aides yesterday near the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. Palestinian officials said Maj. Gen. Jad Tayeh and the aides were in a vehicle in the Shati refugee camp, on the northern edge of Gaza City, when masked men in a sport utility vehicle cut them off and opened fire. The attackers fled after taking weapons and cell phones from the dead, at least three of whom were described as bodyguards, as well as a briefcase containing documents, according to the intelligence service.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia -- THE Yugoslav war is not the inexplicable "quagmire" that it has so often been portrayed. Instead, the war has a key that could easily have unlocked all the tightly closed doors to a successful policy.That key is the Serbian gunmen who even at this moment burn and ravage Bosnia while Western "statesmen" ostentatiously fiddle in New York and London. That is the nature of this frightful war.From the very beginning of the war in June 1991, both European and American diplomats and officials have repeatedly refused even to send air cover for hundreds of thousands of innocents being slaughtered.

Two gunmen in ski masks robbed a Linthicum bank yesterday morning and got away with cash from three money drawers.Police said the twomen went into the Signet Bank, in the 700 block of Hammonds Ferry Road, pointed their guns at the ceiling and announced the robbery.One of the men jumped onto a counter, threatened three tellers with a blue steel handgun and stuffed money into a red duffel bag. Bothmen ran out of the bank and into a nearby industrial park.The first suspect was wearing a blue jacket, gray pants and a black mask.

Two masked gunmen robbed an Arnold gas station early Friday, county police reported.According to the police report, the gunmen, wearing dark blue knit masks, walked into the Sunoco Food Market in the 1500 block of Ritchie Highway at 12:12 a.m.After they threatened to shoot the clerk if he did not give them money, one of the robbers took cash from the register, and they left the station.

The fine Baltimoreans were snug in their beds While visions of crime danced in their heads. Out on the streets, cops got bad guys with guns Shouting, "Crime is down," the fight's being won. Fewer people were shot; good news for all But still many died, casting a pall. So while stats now show we're safer by day, People still fear they'll be blown away. From the touristy harbor to Hotel Belvedere Thugs armed with guns shot it out without fear.

A man told police he was walking behind Advance Auto Parts in the 5100 block of Ritchie Highway about 7 p.m. Sunday when he was robbed at gunpoint by two men. Anne Arundel County police the victim told them that two men approached him, pointed a handgun at him and demanded his money and clothes. The victim complied, police said, and then men were seen running toward Brookwood Road from East 11th Avenue in Brooklyn Park.

Law enforcement investigators suspect that a series of crimes are linked in a chain of alliances and rivalries. April 1, 2008: Stephon Blackwell, then 16, and Sterling Blackwell, then 15, are kidnapped from their home in the 600 block of Plymouth Road, a few blocks west of the city line. Six masked gunmen burst into house and hold 10 people - including the brothers and their mother - hostage for eight hours before stealing a car. As the gunmen leave, they fire shots at Steven "JR" Blackwell Jr., the boys' older brother, as he arrives, police said.

Gunmen kill owner of Pen Lucy social hall The owner of a Pen Lucy social hall was shot and killed during an attempted robbery there early Sunday. Police said Joe Woah-Tee, 60, was standing behind the counter at Gaimei Nangbn Multi-Purpose Neighborhood Center in the 4300 block of York Road about 3:40 a.m. when a man entered and asked about renting the center. A witness told police that shortly after the man was told that a $10 holding fee was required, the man told Woah-Tee to give him money and reached through the opening in a security window.

PARIS - A band of jewel thieves, some dressed as women, stole diamonds, rings and watches valued at more than $100 million from a Harry Winston boutique in the heart of the city's "golden triangle" of luxury shops, the authorities said yesterday. The brazen theft occurred Thursday afternoon but was not reported until yesterday. The robbers struck in the holiday season, when jewelry stocks are plentiful. The police said that at least four men brandishing guns had robbed Harry Winston, which is on a street of shops near the Champs-Elysees that is crowded with high-end boutiques such as Chanel, Dior and Gucci.

MUMBAI, India - Coordinated terrorist attacks struck the heart of Mumbai, India's commercial capital, last night, killing more than 100 people in machine-gun and grenade assaults on at least two five-star hotels, the city's largest train station, a movie theater and a hospital. Even by the standards of terrorism in India, which has suffered a rising number of terrorist attacks this year, the assaults were particularly brazen and different in scale and execution. The attackers used boats to reach the urban peninsula where they hit, and their targets were sites popular with tourists.

Two masked gunmen, each carrying a sawed-off shotgun, robbed the McDonald's in the 700 block of Nursery Road in Linthicum Sunday night.Two McDonald's employees, Melody Beckwith, 32, and Christina Wright, 17, were outside smoking when the robbers approached them and forced the employees into the store, county police said.The gunmen forced store manager Nathan Johnson, 23, to open the safe and took money from the safe and from two cash registers, police said.Pub Date: 3/04/97

Two men with handguns and bandannas over their faces burst into a Wendy's restaurant in the Dogwood Station shopping center in the 2300 block of N. Rolling Road about 12:30 p.m. yesterday, shot a store manager and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money, police said. The manager was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with life-threatening injuries and was immediately taken into surgery, said Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County police spokesman. He is listed in critical condition, Hill said.

ISTANBUL, Turkey - U.S. and Turkish investigators worked urgently yesterday to determine the motive and affiliation of gunmen who attacked the U.S. Consulate here, leaving three Turkish police officers and three assailants dead in a hail of bullets. Turkish news reports cited police sources as saying al-Qaida was suspected in the attack, the most serious assault on a foreign diplomatic mission in Turkey in five years. But there was no immediate confirmation of the report or claim of responsibility.