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Four people were injured, including one man who was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, in a four-vehicle accident early yesterday in Marriottsville.The accident, on Route 32 near the Carroll County line just south of Sykesville, delayed traffic for about an hour.Commuters on Route 32 were backed up almost to Interstate 70 to the south and as far north as Route 26 in Eldersburg, said Sgt. Gary L. Gardner, a Howard County police spokesman.Brian David Chelden, 25, of the 600 block of Lynn Way, Sykesville, was flown by state police helicopter to Shock Trauma in Baltimore, where he was listed in fair condition.

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Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III is expected to decide by Aug. 22 whether a North Avenue liquor store that authorities say is a haven for violence and drug dealing will be closed for a year. Police officials held an administrative hearing yesterday for Linden Bar and Liquors, which was notified last month that it might be closed under the city's new public nuisance law because of criminal activity in and around the store. During the hearing, police submitted into evidence nine incidents of violence and drug activity at the store, highlighting a July killing inside Linden Liquors that was recorded by the store's security camera.

Chong Wan Yim, who emigrated from South Korea, held a variety of jobs in Baltimore — from running his own restaurant to starting his own delivery business just months ago. "I think he was a really hard worker. He was trying to make an honest living," said his friend, Jay Park. "There are no words to say about what happened. We're are realizing how vulnerable we are, even in the daytime. " While making a stop in an unmarked box truck about 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Erdman Shopping Center in Belair-Edison, the 55-year-old was shot in the chest.

A half-hour before police were scheduled to close his North Avenue liquor store, Chang K. Yim reluctantly slid down a metal security curtain yesterday and padlocked it himself. "This is the only way I make a living," he shrugged. "For the time being, I'm jobless." Yim's Linden Bar and Liquors became the first business shuttered under the city's public nuisance law, which has been on the books for 15 years but was revised this year, in part because loopholes had made it difficult to enforce.

Hanna Yim is a cute, 5-year-old, shy on the outside -- and solid as a rock underneath.On Aug. 20, the cool-headed first-grader dialed 911 to report that her father, Charles Yim, had fallen in his bedroom that morning, cut his head and was bleeding.She stayed on the telephone for seven minutes, giving dispatcher Janet Franks the pertinent information and following instructions until an ambulance arrived at the family's apartment on Wheaton Way in Ellicott City.Mr. Yim was transported to Howard County General Hospital, where he was released after receiving five stitches.

The city liquor board will not renew the license for the owner of Linden Bar and Liquors, a long-time corner establishment in the 900 block of W. North Ave. that police say is the scene of nightly drug activity and violence. Residents of nearby Reservoir Hill flooded the hearing at City Hall yesterday and were relieved at the board's decision. But the attorney for Chang K. Yim, who has owned the liquor store since 2003, argued that his client could be a victim of gentrification, and that Kim has tried to appease neighborhood fears by installing lights outside the store and fixing video cameras inside the building.

A man was shot in the head Saturday night at a North Avenue liquor store that has been the target of frequent complaints by neighbors and was ordered shut down earlier this year by the Baltimore liquor board. The unidentified victim was pronounced dead inside Linden Bar and Liquors. No one else was injured in the shooting, police said. The store is on a block known for drug activity and violence, and drug dealing was common inside the store, said Stephan Fogleman, chairman of the liquor board, and residents of nearby Reservoir Hill.

On Aug. 18 at 4:30 p.m., Chang K. Yim rolled down the two corrugated metal doors to his liquor store on North Avenue and secured each with locks. Doing the work himself and a half-hour before deadline, he avoided the spectacle of his store being padlocked by a police commander with television cameras rolling. This was the first test of police enforcing the city padlock ordinance that allowed Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III to keep Linden Bar and Liquors in Reservoir Hill closed for up to a year.

Despite repeated complaints about a North Avenue liquor store, a closure notice by Baltimore's liquor board and a weekend homicide at the establishment, Linden Bar and Liquors remained open for business yesterday. That's infuriating, especially after the fatal shooting there Saturday night, which underscored area residents' concerns about safety and the city liquor board's inability to make stick its decision to shutter the place. Citizens and the police strongly opposed a renewal of Linden's liquor license in April and the liquor board agreed.

On Aug. 18 at 4:30 p.m., Chang K. Yim rolled down the two corrugated metal doors to his liquor store on North Avenue and secured each with locks. Doing the work himself and a half-hour before deadline, he avoided the spectacle of his store being padlocked by a police commander with television cameras rolling. This was the first test of police enforcing the city padlock ordinance that allowed Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III to keep Linden Bar and Liquors in Reservoir Hill closed for up to a year.

Korean-Americans protested yesterday a city public nuisance law they feel unfairly targets their businesses, as a judge told the liquor board to review a case involving the first store closed by the rule. In April, the city liquor board decided not to renew the license of Linden Bar and Liquors, in the 900 block of W. North Ave., after hearing community concerns over criminal activity in and around the business, including a homicide inside the store. Yesterday, because of a procedural matter, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge instructed the board to review its decision not to renew Chang K. Yim's tavern license.

Liquor store failed to secure safety In Peter Hermann's Baltimore Crime Beat column "Shopowner's lawsuit may test the city's padlock law" (Sept. 12), Chang K. Yim, the owner of Linden Bar and Liquors, portrays himself as a victim because his store was ordered padlocked as a result of the persistent problem of drug dealing and violence in and around the store. Any action that damages someone's livelihood has to be taken very seriously, and must be undertaken only as a last resort to end a problem that is hurting many others.

The Linden Bar and Liquors on West North Avenue and Jimmy's Carryout on East Hoffman Street are similar in many ways. Neither establishment has windows. Both occupy stretches of Baltimore real estate that residents, officials and everyone else gave up on long ago. The stores are a necessity in neighborhoods abandoned by other merchants, but also contributors to neighborhood blight. And both establishments, according to city police, once welcomed drug dealers and their guns as much as they did the customers and their cash.

A half-hour before police were scheduled to close his North Avenue liquor store, Chang K. Yim reluctantly slid down a metal security curtain yesterday and padlocked it himself. "This is the only way I make a living," he shrugged. "For the time being, I'm jobless." Yim's Linden Bar and Liquors became the first business shuttered under the city's public nuisance law, which has been on the books for 15 years but was revised this year, in part because loopholes had made it difficult to enforce.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III is expected to decide by Aug. 22 whether a North Avenue liquor store that authorities say is a haven for violence and drug dealing will be closed for a year. Police officials held an administrative hearing yesterday for Linden Bar and Liquors, which was notified last month that it might be closed under the city's new public nuisance law because of criminal activity in and around the store. During the hearing, police submitted into evidence nine incidents of violence and drug activity at the store, highlighting a July killing inside Linden Liquors that was recorded by the store's security camera.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge allowed Linden Bar and Liquors yesterday to remain open until a June 5 appeals hearing, a decision that reverses a ruling by the city liquor board last month. Judge Alfred Nance granted a stay on the final day the bar would have been allowed to sell alcohol. The liquor board revoked the license for the owner of the longtime corner establishment in the 900 block of W. North Ave. on April 17, noting an excessive amount of police activity outside the store.

Korean-Americans protested yesterday a city public nuisance law they feel unfairly targets their businesses, as a judge told the liquor board to review a case involving the first store closed by the rule. In April, the city liquor board decided not to renew the license of Linden Bar and Liquors, in the 900 block of W. North Ave., after hearing community concerns over criminal activity in and around the business, including a homicide inside the store. Yesterday, because of a procedural matter, a Baltimore Circuit Court judge instructed the board to review its decision not to renew Chang K. Yim's tavern license.

Despite repeated complaints about a North Avenue liquor store, a closure notice by Baltimore's liquor board and a weekend homicide at the establishment, Linden Bar and Liquors remained open for business yesterday. That's infuriating, especially after the fatal shooting there Saturday night, which underscored area residents' concerns about safety and the city liquor board's inability to make stick its decision to shutter the place. Citizens and the police strongly opposed a renewal of Linden's liquor license in April and the liquor board agreed.

A West Baltimore liquor store where a man was killed over the weekend reopened yesterday despite the objections of neighbors who say the store is a haven for drug activity. Chang K. Yim, the owner of Linden Bar and Liquors, voluntarily closed Sunday, after a man waiting in line to buy alcohol was shot in the head inside the store Saturday night. But Yim reopened his store on West North Avenue about noon yesterday and his lawyer, Richard Bittner, said Yim cannot be blamed for the "unfortunate act of violence."