Heavyweight pro had 15-1 record

Fan favorite boxer and former Lange Street resident Mike Dietrich, 26, was found dead in his home Tuesday.
    Dietrich’s body was found in the basement of a home in the unit block of Shipway at 5:15 p.m. by someone who lives in the house, according to Cpl. Michael Hill, a spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department.
    The cause of death was still under investigation pending the results of an autopsy, Hill said Wednesday morning, but was ruled a cardiac arrest by medics on the scene.

"Mike had been in a fight the night before," said  his trainer, Jake “the Snake” Smith. "When I saw his body, he had blood caked over his face like someone had hit him in the head. I think that may have had something to do with it."  

Smith was still in shock. “He had a good training day at the gym,” he said.  “I was completely devastated when I heard the news. I couldn’t believe it. He was like a son to me.”
  

Later meets man who received kidney from him

by Randy Leonard

    Former Dundalk resident and Dundalk Eagle reporter Court Blatchford always thought he would like to donate an organ. He is designated as a willing donor on his driver’s license, but when he read a story about a 24-year-old woman who needed a kidney to survive, he was compelled to act.
    “She’s just too young to die,” Blatchford said he thought. So in March of last year he attended an information meeting at Johns Hopkins Hospital.