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Police investigating the fatal shooting of an unidentified man on an East Baltimore street yesterday afternoon said they knew of no motive and have no suspects in custody.Detective Mark Hughes said officers responding to a report of a shooting in the 1800 block of N. Port St. about 4: 10 p.m. found the man, believed to be in his late 20s, lying in the street and bleeding from at least one bullet wound.Hughes said the man was rushed by ambulance to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he died shortly after arrival.

TOWSON -- Starting Monday, and continuing through Sept. 10, the county Health Department will provide free immunization shots for infants, children and adults at six locations.No appointments are needed, but children must be accompanied by adults who can sign a consent form. Adults should bring shot records. The first clinic will be from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday at Greenwood Board of Education headquarters, 6901 N. Charles St.They continue Tuesday at the Baltimore Highlands/Lansdowne and Essex health centers, and Aug. 31 at Liberty Family Resources Center, all from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. On Sept.

The Baltimore Police Department opened a new Police Athletic League center in O'Donnell Heights yesterday, enabling the agency to move out of a makeshift office with a capacity of 50 to a building that can accommodate 300 youths.The Southeast Baltimore facility is one of 27 centers throughout the city that are the centerpiece of Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier's youth initiative.The new center, in the 1200 block of Gusryan St., replaces one in the O'Donnell Heights housing complex.Col.

Federal prosecutors unsealed indictments yesterday charging 13 people with participating in two warring drug gangs that terrorized an East Baltimore neighborhood and killed at least four people, including a Northern High School all-star quarterback.The quarterback, 18-year-old Rocco Colavito Cash, was killed in an August 1997 drive-by shooting when a member of one of the gangs mistook him for a rival enforcer who had been targeted for execution, prosecutors said in U.S. District Court in Baltimore.

Police officers posing as drug dealers near Baltimore's O'Donnell Heights neighborhood last night arrested 12 people, including a 17-year-old, on charges of trying to purchase crack cocaine.Undercover officers set up for business in the 1700 block of Nome St. between 7: 30 p.m. and 11 p.m. As people tried to purchase crack cocaine, they were directed down an alley and arrested, said Lt. George L. Klein Jr. of the city's Southeastern District.The 17-year-old, a male, was taken to the juvenile lockup at the Northern District.

Authorities raided several locations in O'Donnell Heights in Southeast Baltimore yesterday and arrested 12 people charged in warrants with selling cocaine and heroin.Six other suspects were being sought last night, said police Sgt. Richard Smith, who heads the Southeastern District drug enforcement unit.Smith said that beginning at 3 p.m., city and housing authority police led raids on dwellings in the 1200 block of Gusryan St., the 1200 block of Wohler Way and the 6300 block of Boston St., seized quantities of suspected cocaine and heroin, a large quantity of drug-packaging material and a handgun.

Two men were killed in unrelated shootings last night in Baltimore, police said.Anthony Hamilton, 35, whose last known address was in Dundalk, apparently collapsed in the 6300 block of Elliott St. in O'Donnell Heights after being shot at least five times about 7: 40 p.m., police said.About 8: 20 p.m., a 21-year-old man died after being shot once in the back in Park Heights.Pub Date: 8/16/97

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First, city police officers busted the drug dealers. Then, dressed in baggy pants and wearing gold chains, the officers took over the street corner business and arrested a dozen more people -- most from the suburbs -- who came to buy cocaine.Carrying out "Operation Burn or Bust," the Southeastern District officers targeted the 1700 block of Nome St., known as the "Rock Block" because crack cocaine is so readily available. Police said they arrested dealers as young as 13.Investigators said the 30-day undercover investigation that culminated Tuesday afternoon and evening is a warning to people who come into the area east of O'Donnell Heights to feed their drug habits.

More than 100 police officers swept through the troubled O'Donnell Heights public housing complex last night, seeking 30 people linked to drug gangs believed to be responsible for a recent spate of shootings.Heavily armed officers raided eight suspected drug houses in the Southeast Baltimore development of 900 rowhouses.The raids started about 8 p.m., and in minutes police had arrested four people and seized substantial amounts of suspected cocaine and heroin at two houses and were searching other residences late last night.