Update: 9 Shot, 3 Dead In 3 Shootings Across NW Baltimore
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- 9 people were shot, three fatally in shootings across northwest Baltimore Monday night, police said.
The shooting happened near Park Heights Avenue and Quantico Avenue around 7:30 p.m., police said.
When officers arrived, they found a 25-year-old man who had been shot in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police originally believed a woman who showed up shortly after the shooting at Sinai Hospital with a gunshot wound was at the same scene. However, police now believe she was shot in the 5200 block of Fairlawn avenue by an unknown shooter .She died at the hospital.
Three other people, a 26-year-old woman, a 17-year-old boy and a 22-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries. All three walked into area hospitals.
Police said the victims were hanging out in front of a corner store when two men walked up and opened fire. The men then fled the scene.
A neighbor tells WJZ he heard two rounds of gunfire in the area.
"I heard rapid fire and I thought it was firecrackers," Timothy Mercer said. "Then I heard retaliation gunfire like fireworks and then I knew it was gunshots, and it was rapid-fire."
Hours earlier, a 27-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a shooting in the 4400 block of Garrison Boulevard. That shooting happened around 5 p.m. and left the man with gunshot wounds to the left thigh and left foot.
He was taken to an area hospital and went into surgery.
Witnesses reportedly saw a gray or blue car fleeing the scene.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2100 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
