One person was killed and five others injured when gunmen walked down a street and opened fire on a block in Baltimore from an intersection, the city police commissioner said.
Commissioner Michael Harrison said the shooting broke out on Wednesday in a neighborhood in western Baltimore and the condition of the five injured was severe to critical. He refused to reveal the identity of the people who were shot.
Officers responded to reports of gunfire after 2 p.m. on Wednesday and found two people shot dead, Harrison said. These two were taken to hospitals and the other four arrived separately in private vehicles, he said.
So far, investigators have learned the six people were together on the tree-lined townhouse block when at least two or three people started shooting into the block, Harrison said. He added that the shooters then fled.
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The officers searched the neighborhood and gathered evidence, Harrison said.
He asked people with information about the shooting to contact the police. In particular, he urged people to tell the police, “Who are the people responsible for a very brazen, very cowardly act, to shoot indiscriminately into a block where they met six people. You could possibly have met and killed many others. “
Mayor Brandon Scott said he and the commissioner recently visited the area to speak with residents about working together on the issue.
“We know this is an unfortunate thing to do in this area of West Baltimore,” said Scott. “We will not and cannot accept that.”
Scott said he wanted to impress everyone, especially young men, that Baltimore can be a place “where we don’t constantly let people who we know are so weak they shoot six people like that are weak that they “are afraid that their basic little conflict, which may have hurt their ego through a little argument, can end in loss of life.”
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The shooting continues in a series of shootings since last Friday in cities like Chicago; Austin, Texas; and Savannah, Georgia. The attacks have raised concerns that gun violence spikes in the U.S. could last into the summer as coronavirus restrictions were eased across much of the nation.
On Wednesday morning, Baltimore police reported 151 murders in the city that year, compared with 144 at the same time last year. There have been 310 non-fatal shots in the city so far this year, compared to 269 last year.
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