Drug Fight Ends in Deadly Fire; Baltimore Mother Who Defied Dealers Killed Along With 5 Children

Angela Dawson had been trying for months to keep the drug dealers off the steps of her East Baltimore rowhouse. She cursed them and badgered them down the block; they threw a rock through her window. She called police; somebody tossed two molotov cocktails into her kitchen.

The room was scorched, yet Dawson and her family refused to leave.

Wednesday morning, though, somebody came at them again. According to police, one of the men who had repeatedly clashed with Dawson crept up her darkened street, intent on finishing the job. Within moments, a fireball ripped through the…