NEWS
By Gina Davis and Gina Davis,SUN REPORTER | June 24, 2007
Having earned money from doing chores for her grandmother, 10-year-old Kianna Johnson set out from her West Fairmount Avenue home Thursday afternoon for the nearby market with its yellow awning and oversized red lettering where they sold the Popsicles she loved. The two-block stroll along neighboring West Baltimore Street, which she had taken many times, typically took her through the glass doors of the Economy Market and Carry-Out, where she would make a swift left past the pastries and potato chips.
NEWS
August 31, 2006
On August 22, 2006, IDA B. HAMLETTE, wife of the late James E. Hamlette Sr. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 8 A.M where the family will receive friends on Friday at 9 A.M. Funeral services will follow.
NEWS
By GREGORY KANE | July 1, 2006
Glynnis Gladden, who works for a Northwest Baltimore organization called STRIVE (Support Training Results In Valuable Employees) told Jerrod Hamlett's family and friends last Sunday night that his death wasn't in vain. Hamlett was murdered last year at the Oswego Mall Apartments by a then-13-year-old boy with a juvenile record who was reputed to have ties to a violent drug gang known as "Cutthroat." Gladden said that at least one positive development has come about in the wake of Hamlett's death: STRIVE now has a program in the neighborhood of the Oswego Mall Apartments focusing on helping residents - particularly ex-offenders - with job training, education and employment.
NEWS
By GREGORY KANE | June 28, 2006
At 8 p.m., the exact hour the vigil was supposed to start, Margaret Hamlett rose from her porch chair and addressed those assembled at her home on Wylie Avenue. "Y'all come on. We're gonna have prayer." Then she prayed. Prayed for her relatives who had died within the past year. Prayed especially for her grandson Jerrod Hamlett, who was only 23 on June 25, 2005, when a boy shot him to death. The boy was only 13. He's since been committed to a juvenile facility until he's 21 years old. Margaret Hamlett even prayed for "the boy that took Jerrod's life.
NEWS
By GREGORY KANE | May 6, 2006
I guess compared with Jerrod Hamlett, Bryant C. Jones, Jennifer Lynne Morelock and Jason David Woycio, I got off lucky. Last June, a 13-year-old boy hurled a bottle at Hamlett and then fatally shot him in the dispute that followed. The boy had turned 14 when he was committed to an out-of-state juvenile facility. Jones was holding a "Sweet 16" birthday party for his daughter last month. When he tried to eject an unruly 16-year-old boy, the kid allegedly pulled a gun and fatally shot Jones.
NEWS
By SUMATHI REDDY and SUMATHI REDDY,SUN REPORTER | December 20, 2005
The city's youngest murder suspect this year admitted yesterday to the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old man in a Park Heights public housing project, receiving a sentence that will keep him locked up for seven years, until he turns 21. Smiling at a fellow defendant as he entered the chambers of Baltimore Circuit Judge Clifton J. Gordy, the 14-year-old showed no emotion during the hearing, uttering "yes, sir" and "no, sir" to the judge's questions....