A 38-year-old man was killed as a result of a mass shooting on Saturday night near the Pimlico race course, police in Baltimore said on Sunday.
Four other adults and a 5-year-old girl were also injured in the firing in the Central Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore.
Around 8:46 pm, employees responded at the intersection of Queensbury Avenue and SPALING for shooting reports, Baltimore police commissioner Richard Warley said during a briefing on Saturday night.
Warley said the officers found four victims of men, aged 32, 33, 38 and 52; 23-year-old woman; And a 5-year-old girl who was shot in the hand. The girl’s injuries do not look serious, he said.
The 38-year-old victim of men was in critical condition and had undergone surgery on Saturday night, Warley said. Police in Baltimore announced in a message about the news on Sunday that the man had been declared dead on Sunday morning and that the shooting was being investigated as a murder.
Police were unable to answer questions at the scene of the motive for the shooting or location of the suspects.
“We’re still in the investigation too early,” Warley said.
Numerous streets in the area have been closed to the public and police advised residents to avoid the area.
Joseph Payne, a resident of Western Belvedere, said he thought he heard shots over his music and runs out when he saw red and blue lights.
He said he saw a man be rolled up on Gurney, saying his paramedics repeatedly, “Keep your eyes up.”
Another individual was deployed in a wheelchair, according to Payne.
He said there was a large group of 10 to 15 people, who believes all teenagers.
Sunday morning, numerous cars damaged by shooting were sitting on Avenue Spalding as six detectives analyzed the area for evidence. All damages to vehicles show that the shots are potentially fired on the other side of the Avenue Spaulding, through the intersection of Queensbury and Spalding.
One vehicle has received up to six bullet effects and others have been hit once. Damage to vehicles stopped about half the road between Spaulding Avenue and Palmer Avenue.
Investigators sailed the whole area, walking every street and alley. They stopped in front of Avenue Queensbury’s home for about three houses from the intersection to analyze small suspected blood spots on the sidewalk and in the grass.
A work truck with a flat tire and a bullet hole in its windshield sits on the Avenue Spaulding, facing the intersection of Avenue Queensbury after a shooting on Saturday night, killing one and wounds five. (Matt Hubbard/Personnel) The bullet sits in the passenger seat of Avenue Spalding’s utility truck, facing the intersection of Avenue Queensbury after entering the vehicle through the windshield. (Matt Hubbard/staff) suspect the blood stains the sidewalk of Avenue Queensbury after the mass shooting on Saturday night killed one and injured five. (Matt Hubbard/Personnel) A vehicle with bullets holes in his windshield, and the roof sits on Avenue Spalding, facing the Cross of Avenue Queensbury after a Saturday night shooting, which killed one and wounded five. (Matt Hubbard/Personnel) Show inscription 1 to a 5A team of investigators stands on Avenue Queensbury on Sunday morning after mass shooting the night before killing one and wounds five. (Matt Hubbard/Personnel) Expand
The team focused specifically on the side of a home in the corner of Queensbury and Spalding Avenue, directly from where the vehicles were damaged. Investigators visually scanned the side of the home for damage.
All morning the residents went around their day. Many were sitting on their front porches while others finished working in the yard or walking on the sidewalks.
A resident said that the “before” area had many crimes, but in the last few years it has been on the good country. The man who did not want to be baptized said he was surprised by the shooting because “nothing like this has happened here in a long time.”
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