Southwest Baltimore

Two people were shot last night, one of them fatally, on a street in Southwest Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge neighborhood, city police said. Southwestern District officers responding to gunfire in the 500 block of S. Smallwood St. shortly after 10:30 p.m. found the victims ? a man and a boy in his late teens?lying on the ground, said Agent Donny Moses, a Police Department spokesman. The victims' names were not available. Moses said the man had been shot in the head and the boy in the side, and that both were taken by Fire Department ambulances to Maryland Shock Trauma Center,where theman died shortly after arrival.

Two men were arrested this week and charged with the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery in Southwest Baltimore in October, according to police and court records. About 9 p.m. Oct. 14, Rubin J. Nelson, 26, was approached by two people while walking in the 1900 block of N. Rosedale St. The pair robbed him of his backpack and then shot him as they fled. Nelson died 40 minutes later, after he was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Robbery apparently was a motive but it was unclear from charging documents what was stolen from Nelson, aside from his backpack.

When people talk about Baltimore's economic renaissance, the focus is most frequently on a handful of neighborhoods on or near the Inner Harbor. But city planners know that if Baltimore is to thrive, expansive new developments are needed across the city. A model for that vision - an ambitious 100-acre development in Southwest Baltimore called Uplands - appears poised to move forward within a few months, with expected settlement of a legal dispute over availability of housing for former lower-income residents of the site.

A baby girl, believed to be no more than three hours old, was found abandoned yesterday on a doorstep in the Yale Heights section of Southwest Baltimore.George Moniodis, a spokesman at nearby St. Agnes Hospital where the baby was taken, said last night that she was in satisfactory condition though her temperature was a little low.He said a couple living in the 500 block of Thornfield Road found the black baby on their front doorstep about 3:45 p.m. After the couple alerted the police and the baby was taken to St. Agnes, investigators began canvassing the area in search of the mother.

Louise Hintze, who spent 25 years mending social upheaval in Southwest Baltimore with good deeds, food and jobs, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 71 and lived in the neighborhood she served. Until the middle of last month, she headed a Neighborhood Assistance Program center at Hollins and Calhoun streets - a base from which she found work for residents, handled their hospital paperwork, cleaned alleys, built gardens, settled family arguments and supervised criminals in community service.

A man was killed and a woman was seriously injured last night in a shooting inside a brick rowhouse in Southwest Baltimore. Detectives were also at the scene of another homicide late last night in the 1200 block of N. Milton Ave. in East Baltimore. No details were available early today. In the Southwest Baltimore shooting, police said the man and woman, neither of whom has been identified, were shot shortly before 10 p.m. in the 2200 block of Ramsay St. The woman was shot in the face and ran about a half a block to the 400 block of Furrow St., where she was discovered by police sitting on a stoop.

A 14-year-old boy died at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after he was shot in the head early yesterday in Southwest Baltimore, according to police. Police said Cornelius Green was sitting in the living room of a house in the 2000 block of Wilhelm St. about 12:45 a.m. when someone fired several shots through a front window. The shooter then fled. Green was taken to the hospital and died about 2 p.m., said Angelique Cook-Hayes, spokeswoman for the Baltimore Police Department. He lived in the 3200 block of Lyndale Ave., she said.

A 73-year-old Southwest Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday to 30 years in prison for the fatal shooting last year of his estranged wife.Baltimore Circuit Judge John C. Themelis also sentenced James Hunter of the first block of S. Monastery Ave. to a consecutive 20-year term for the use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime.Last month, a Circuit Court jury found Hunter guilty of second-degree murder in the shooting of his wife, Verna Hunter, 65, who died two days after being shot twice in the face and once in the buttocks at the couple's home.

A 21-year-old man was killed and another man was wounded yesterday morning in a double shooting in Southwest Baltimore.City police said they knew of no motive and had no suspects in the attack.Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes, a police spokeswoman, said the two victims were sitting on steps in the 2500 block of Emerson St., two blocks north of Frederick Avenue, when a gunman approached and opened fire about 11: 15 a.m.The 21-year-old, whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, was pronounced dead at the scene.

A man shot by a Baltimore police officer Thursday night in Southwest Baltimore was released from the hospital yesterday and charged with assault, a handgun offense and drug possession, police said.Joseph Michael Stokes, 24, of the 400 block of Colleen Road was shot once in the upper left back, police said. He was treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the 11: 10 p.m. incident at Augusta and Massachusetts avenues.The officer was identified as Robert Probeyahn, 35, a five-year veteran assigned to the tactical unit.