Youth

County police arrested a Morris Hills youth Monday on assault charges after two residents of a Glen Burnie nursing home were peppered with BBs Sunday night.In the first incident, Robert Bittner, 83, walked out the door of the Morris Hill Nursing Home in the 400 block of Morris Hill Ave. about 6:30 p.m. and saw a youth point a gun at him and pull the trigger several times, police said.Mr. Bittner was treated at Harbor Hospital and released.Three hours later, Aldo Galilea was in front of the building smoking a cigarette when two youths ran around the building.

Police have charged a 16-year-old Columbia youth as an adult in the armed robbery of a man at an automated teller machine in the Harper's Choice village in February.Michael Scott Garrett of the 5200 block of Brook Way in Wilde Lake was being held at the Howard County Detention Center yesterday on a charge of robbery with a deadly weapon.Howard District Judge R. Russell Sadler reduced the youth's bond from $250,000 to $10,000 at a bond review hearing yesterday morning.Police said a youth, armed with a handgun, and two others confronted a 52-year-old Columbia man at the bank machine late on Feb. 20. One robber grabbed cash the man had withdrawn, and another pushed buttons on the machine to withdraw more cash.

An East Baltimore store owner was charged with attempted murder and related offenses last night after an argument with a youth ended in gunfire.The youth, 17-year-old Ben Johnson of the 1500 block of N. Broadway, was treated for a head wound and released from the Johns Hopkins Children's Center after the 8 p.m. shooting outside B & J Cut Rate Liquors at 1801 E. Federal St.Bong Su Oh, 44, the store's owner, was awaiting a bail hearing at the Eastern District...

An unidentified youth was fatally shot yesterday evening while he sat on the front steps of a Southeast Baltimore rowhouse, a police investigator said.No arrest had been made and police knew of no motive for the killing.Homicide Detective Kevin Turner said the victim, who was black and appeared to be 16 to 18 years old, carried no identification. He was alone on the steps in the 200 block of N. Milton Ave. about 6 p.m. when the gunman approached and fired several shots.The youth was hit in the upper torso, and at least one bullet pierced the door of the house.

A 14-year-old East Baltimore youth was ordered held without bail yesterday after being charged as an adult with killing a woman Tuesday in an apparent street robbery, according to the police.Detective Robert J. Bowman of the homicide unit said the youth, Leonard Rockwell of the 800 block of East Chase Street, had staked out the 1000 block of Valley Street -- a known drug trafficking area -- with two other youths seeking to rob someone.About 10:30 p.m. Tuesday the three youths, all armed with handguns, accosted Mary Mazu Jackson, 47, of the 1000 block of Wilmot Court, and pulled her into the alley to rob her, Detective Bowman said.

A 17-year-old Columbia youth was shot outside his home yesterday afternoon, Howard County police said.The wounded youth, whose name was not provided because of his age, was listed in stable condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore last night.Derrick A. Hayes, 18, of the 3800 block of Cedar Drive in Baltimore County, was charged with attempted first-degree murder and assault with intent to murder.Mr. Hayes -- who is unemployed man but who formerly worked as a fabric store clerk -- was held overnight at the county detention center after being denied bail.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court wiped out yesterday the conviction of a Baltimore youth for his role in the 1993 fatal beating of another young man in a dispute over money.The conviction of Kevin Domonic Gray was flawed, the court ruled by a 5-4 vote, because prosecutors used an edited confession to police by another youth who was involved -- a statement that unfairly pointed to Gray even though it was not supposed to be used against him.Gray's name had been deleted from the confession. But the court majority said yesterday that the deletion was so obvious that it might well have called "the jurors' attention specially to the removed name."

A Severn man was sentenced yesterday in Anne Arundel Circuit Court to five years in prison for savagely beating a 15-year-old youth last summer in an imitation of a martial arts movie.Joe N. Rider, 18, of the 1800 block of Montreal Road, admitted that he was one of three attackers who pummeled the boy, leaving him unconscious and partially blinded on Aug. 16.The youth was in front of his house in the 1700 block of Village Square about 10: 15 p.m., talking to a neighbor when Rider and two acquaintances approached him, said Assistant State's Attorney Warren W. Davis III.The assailants had just watched the 1972 Bruce Lee movie "The Chinese Connection" and were searching the neighborhood for someone upon whom to act out what they saw in the film.

County police arrested three teen-age boys Tuesday on charges of burglarizing a Brooklyn Park home from which guns and a rosary were stolen.Officer Ralph Greaves Jr. was called to the house in the 5800 block of Patrick Henry Drive just after 7: 30 p.m. Monday.Thieves had climbed in through a rear window, ransacked the house and stolen several guns and a distinctive rosary -- pearl with a large gold cross, police said.As a resident of the house described the rosary, Greaves remembered seeing a similar one on a Brooklyn Park 17-year-old he had arrested on a destruction of property charge.

A 14-year-old Baltimore County boy was charged last week in an Ellicott City carjacking after the stolen car was involved in a hit-and-run accident in Baltimore County, police said.The boy was charged as a juvenile by Howard County police with carjacking, robbery, theft, assault and battery. Police did not release the name of the boy, who was held over the weekend at the Waxter Center in Laurel.Police believe the youth is one of two suspects involved in the Sept. 17 carjacking, in which a 23-year-old Ellicott City woman was grabbed by the neck and forced out of her car near her apartment in the 3000 block of Oak Green Circle.