article_snippet.sent: The 25-year-old was poisoned by lead paint as a child growing up in Baltimore .
article_snippet.sent: Lab tests conducted in the 1990s showed that he and his two sisters had levels of lead in he and his two sisters blood nearly double what the state of Maryland defines as the minimum for lead poisoning.
article_snippet.sent: In Baltimore, more than 2,600 children have been found to have high levels of lead in more than 2,600 children blood, according an annual report released by the Maryland Department of the Environment in 2014. '
article_snippet.sent: This is the toxic legacy of lead-based paint,” Ruth Ann Norton, head of the Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and a founding member of the Maryland Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission, told the Baltimore Sun. '
article_snippet.sent: Our kids’re less likely to be able to hold a job', a founding member of the Maryland Lead Poisoning Prevention Commission said. '
article_snippet.sent: Children with lead poisoning will have defects, regardless of whether Children with lead poisoning parents are ‘nice’ or not.'