Baltimore police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened in Baltimore’s Belair-Edison neighborhood on Monday night.
Police responded to a report of gunfire injuring multiple people near the intersection of Belair Road and Clifton Park Terrace shortly after 11:00 p.m.
An officer directs the attention of homicide detective Kelsey Roberts toward a separate cluster of cartridge casings on Belair Road. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)
According to police, an officer found a 39-year-old man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds.
When more officers arrived, they found a 21-year-old man who was also shot. Officers were alerted that another 21-year-old man walked into a hospital, also suffering from being shot.
Officers found cartridge casings in the 3200 block of Belair Road and continued to find additional evidence all the way to Indian Head Drive.
Medics took the victims to local hospitals, where the 39-year-old man was pronounced deceased.
Police say the other victims who were shot have injuries that are non-life-threatening.
Baltimore has been going through a spate of violence in recent weeks. Many of the city’s shootings have yielded multiple gunshot victims at one time.
Officers assigned to the Eastern District search for cartridge casings along Belair Road following a shooting on Monday night. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)
Investigators have been trying to make arrests connected to five mass shootings. All of them happened within a five-week period.
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The shooting in the 3200 block of Belair Road comes on the heels of a double shooting on that same block. A 20-year-old woman and a 22-year-old woman were injured by gunfire there on Oct. 7.
A few days prior, there had been gunfire in the area. Officers found multiple cartridge casings near the intersection of Clifton Park Terrace and Harwell Avenue on Oct. 4.
Homicide detective John Amato stares at damage to a building done by a flying bullet in Baltimore’s Belair-Edison neighborhood on Monday night. (WBFF / Maggie Ybarra)
Homicide detectives are urging anyone with information to contact them at 410-396-2100 or reach out to Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7Lockup.
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