James Smith

A key witness in the trial of Maurice Blevins, who is charged with first-degree murder in the January shooting death of 3-year-old James Smith III in a West Baltimore barbershop, testified yesterday that gunfire erupted after Blevins came in wielding a gun.But earlier yesterday, during opening statements, Blevins' attorney said the true killer was the witness, Kenya Davis, 21, whom Blevins allegedly wounded."

On August 19, 2003, JAMES G. JR.; beloved husband of Alexandra Smith; devoted father of Debra McMullen and her husband Jack, James Smith and his wife Melissa and the late Ralph G. Smith; loving brother of Lorraine Saul; dear grandfather of Ralph Smith Jr., Heather Roach and Bethany Smith. Friends may call at the CONNELLY FUNERAL HOME OF DUNDALK, P.A., 7110 Sollers Point Road, Monday and Tuesday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday 10:30 A.M. at the funeral home.

Suddenly, on June 27, 2005, NALEI ANN SAKOWSKI-SMITH, beloved daughter of Virginia and Gus Smith, dear sister of Haven Smith, loving grand-daughter of Frances and Stanley Sakowski, and Mary and James Smith, and great granddaughter of Geraldine Himmel and Stanley Sakowski. She is also survived by many loving family and friends. Memorial Service at Patapsco Methodist Church on Saturday at 11 A.M. Interment private. Memorial contributions may be made to Nalei Sakowski Memorial Fund, c/o First Mariner Bank.

On January 22, 2004, MARY LOUISE (BURNETT) SMITH, age 88, passed away quietly at the Charlestown Retirement Community, Catonsville, MD, where she had resided since 1987. She was the beloved wife of the late Howard Jay Smith; beloved mother of two sons, H. Lee Smith and his wife Joyce, of Flemington, NJ, James Smith and his wife Ann, of Jacksonville, FL, and a daughter, Mary Ellen Parks and her husband Joshua, of Bluffton, SC. She is also survived by five grandchildren, Hollie Einolf, Melinda Granlund, Craig Rice, Matthew Smith, and Donald Rice; and one great grandson, Zachary Einolf.

On September 17, 2004 MATILDA M. OSTROWSKI (nee Smith), wife of the late Bernard J. Ostrowski; dear sister of Edward Smith, Theresa Di Venti and the late Paul Smith, James Smith, Jerome Smith and Ethel Burnett; godmother of Stan Humphrey and Michele Urbanski; also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned DAVID J. WEBER FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 401 S. Chester St., on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services from the Funeral Home on Monday at 11 A.M. Interment Holy Rosary Cemetery.

On Sunday, March 23, 2003 MILDRED (nee Smith) McAree, age 88, of Perry Hall, beloved wife of the late Joseph P. McAree; devoted mother of Jean Stevenson, Thomas J. McAree and his wife Irene, Charles H. McAree and his wife Kathryn and Valerie J. Tighe and her husband Michael; sister of James Smith, Elsie Schestag, Mary Bayne, and the late Charles Smith; grandmother of Barbara Galloway, William and James Stevenson, Tracey Walker, Erik Smith, Lauren and...

James Smith Sr. stood yesterday in a West Baltimore firehouse where his son would be if he wasn't at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Burn Unit with scorched skin and a tracheal tube running from his throat. "He'll be back fighting fires again," said Smith, a firefighter who retired eight years ago. "It's in his blood - it's part of his life." James Smith Jr., 32, and seven other city firefighters were injured Tuesday on North Broadway when two floors of a burning building collapsed while they were inside.

It was a killing that galvanized a city. A 3-year-old boy was caught in cross-fire between two rival drug dealers as he waited for his birthday haircut in a West Baltimore barbershop. People who never knew James Smith III built a shrine to him. Then-Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke visited James' parents, saying city officials were "trying to make sense out of a senseless act." The man convicted of killing him, Maurice Blevins, 22, was sent to prison for the rest of his life, plus 20 years, for the 1997 killing.