At this moment, there have been no reported fatalities, however according to DC Realtime News and the Baltimore Firefighters Union, two people have suffered serious gunshot wounds, and four EMS units were rushed to the location to transfer “a number of injured victims.”
About an hour after the shooting, Baltimore Police said that PIO and Police Commissioner Harrison were “on scene of a multi-victim shooting in the Northwest District.”
Law enforcement officials gathered for a press conference across town in East Baltimore as the incident happened in Northwest Baltimore.
Speaking in Tench Tilghman Park, Mayor Brandon Scott, Maryland District Attorney Erek Barron, and a number of other top federal, state, and city officials discussed how an increase in state funds is being used to combat crime “by any lawful means necessary.”
Barron claimed that the “Al Capone method” will be used by the state to remove violent offenders off the streets by prosecuting them for less serious crimes like fraud.
Officers are going to a shooting scene in Northwest Baltimore at the junction of Park Heights Avenue and Shirley Avenue.
Mayor Brandon Scott, who spearheaded efforts to reduce police spending by $22 million in 2021 when serving as a city councilman, then pleaded for an additional $27 million for the police department during the spring.
Baltimore recorded 337 homicides in 2021, up from 334 in 2020 and significantly more than the 290 that the city’s mayor, Brandon Scott, had intended to achieve with his new “violence reduction” initiatives.
Scott, a city councilman who spearheaded efforts to reduce police spending by $22 million last year before begging for an additional $27 million for the police department this spring, said to the Baltimore Sun Times, “We can’t accept that this life loss is normal.”
The number of nonfatal gunshots grew from 721 in 2020 to 726 in 2021, or by about 1%.
