Pizza Shop

A 16-year-old who had just left an all-night pizza shop in downtown Baltimore was fatally shot Monday night in front of Baltimore Arena - the latest in a spate of city shootings that have claimed 14 lives in 10 days. Justin Timothy Scott of the 4100 block of Bateman Ave. in Northwest Baltimore was pronounced dead at 2:56 a.m. yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, about three hours after the shooting. The sophomore at Walbrook Uniformed Services Academy had been shopping Monday evening for clothes with $300 given to him by his parents, and apparently had stopped at Crazy John's in the 300 block of W. Baltimore St. for a late-night snack.

THE 20 EYES WERE focused on one man. The Pizza Man. Tim Chiaruttini, owner of No Anchovies in Taneytown, was beginning his lesson on how to make pizza to 10 Brownie Scouts in Troop 171. The Scouts were there to earn their "try-it" food badges, said Faye Repasse, troop leader. Chiaruttini took a round of dough and held it up for the girls to see. He explained how important yeast was to the dough. Yeast makes the dough rise, he said. "First thing I am going to do is put a light coat of flour on this dough," he said.

Anne Arundel County police said yesterday that they are investigating whether officers were justified in shooting a 24-year-old robbery suspect who was armed with a metal pipe that had been duct-taped with a carpenter's level to look like a gun. The suspect is alleged to have pointed the hardware at police and was fatally shot in the chest by two officers with .40-caliber Sig Sauer semiautomatic handguns. Police identified the suspect as Gary James Beemer. Police said the officers, who were responding to a robbery at a Brooklyn Park Pizza Hut late Saturday, didn't realize Beemer's weapon was a homemade replica of a sawed-off shotgun.

A man brandishing a tool made to look like a shotgun was shot and killed by Anne Arundel County police Saturday night after he robbed a Pizza Hut in Brooklyn Park. Gary James Beemer, 24, was shot about midnight outside the Pizza Hut in the 5000 block of Ritchie Highway, said Officer Carol Frye, a police spokeswoman. Beemer, who lived in the 100 block of E. 11th Ave., about a block from the pizza shop at 10th Avenue and Ritchie, was pronounced dead at Harbor Hospital Center in southern Baltimore, Frye said.

A Laurel man accused of robbing an Eldersburg pizza shop last year was sentenced to one year in the Carroll County jail after pleading guilty yesterday to a lesser charge of theft under $300, court records show.The robbery charge was dropped and the felony theft count was amended because of uncertainty over the amount of money stolen and disparities in witness accounts of the crime, said Assistant State's Attorney Jerry Joyce.In accepting the plea, Judge Francis M. Arnold sentenced Lawrence Lynch, 32, to 18 months in jail, suspended six months of the term and ordered the defendant be placed on 18 months of probation upon his release.

Two men wearing ski masks robbed a Crownsville lounge at gunpoint Monday night, county police said.According to a report, the men entered Sonny's Lounge in the 1300 block of Generals Highway about 9: 45 p.m. One of them put a silver revolver to a clerk's head and ordered him to give them money from the cash register.The clerk complied. The men left the store with an undisclosed amount of money and drove north on Generals Highway in a red Chevrolet Cavalier, police said.Man robs pizza shop with threatening noteA bandit robbed a Glen Burnie pizza shop of an undisclosed amount of money Monday night, county police said.

A Hampstead pizza shop owner agreed to move a large metal trash container away from a neighbor's bedroom window and make other changes after his amended site plan was questioned by the town's planning and zoning commission last night.Michael Illiano, owner of J&P Pizza at Main Street and Ralph Avenue, told the commission that he would have the trash container and fence screening hiding it moved to the rear of the restaurant.The restaurant recently expanded when it took over space occupied by a convenience store.

Annapolis police found the body of the third suspect in an Edgewater pizza shop holdup hanging from a stair railing on Forest Drive early yesterday, apparently strangled by his shoelaces.An employee of Calvert Trash Co. in the 900 block of Forest Drive found the body of Dewayne Wilson, 33, of the 1300 block of Tyler Ave. in Annapolis about 6: 30 a.m., city police said. The building is a few blocks from Wilson's home.The state medical examiner declared Wilson's death a suicide.Anne Arundel police had a warrant for Wilson's arrest in the robbery of the Ledo Pizza shop in the 3000 block of Solomons Island Road in Edgewater late Sunday.

Two men robbed an Eldersburg pizza shop Tuesday after threatening to shoot an employee, state police said.No one was injured in the 9 p.m. incident at Sonny's Pizza in Country Village Shopping Center in the 1900 block of Liberty Road, and no weapon was displayed.According to police, a man entered the shop and asked if it was open for business while the other stood at the door. After he was told the shop was closed, one of the men, holding his right hand in a jacket pocket, demanded money.

Two employees of a Columbia pizza shop were hospitalized last night after they were stabbed during a confrontation with a robber, Howard County police said.The robbery occurred about 5 p.m. at Pizza Boli's in Wilde Lake Village Center in the 10400 block of Twin Rivers Road.An employee of the pizza shop surrendered an undisclosed amount of cash to the robber, who implied he had a gun. Two male employees followed the robber to the parking lot and confronted him.During an ensuing fight, the robber stabbed both men -- one in the wrist, the other in the chest.