New Year?s Day began in Baltimore like so many others ? grimly, with the sound of a gunshot.

Leon Nelson, 17, was the city?s first homicide victim of 2007 when he was fatally shot about a mile from his Winchester Street home inside the China Garden takeout restaurant. Two others were wounded, including a restaurant employee.

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