At least seven injured in Baltimore shooting as city law enforcement leaders gather across town

On Aug 24, 2022

A ‘multi-victim shooting’ in Northwest Baltimore left seven people injured around 12:30 Wednesday afternoon, according to the Baltimore Metro News.

No deaths have been reported at this time, but DC Realtime News reports that two individuals have critical gunshot wound injuries and the Baltimore Firefighters Union said that four EMS units were called to the scene to transport and treat ‘several injured victims.’

Baltimore Police said about an hour after the shooting that ‘Police Commissioner Harrison and PIO were ‘on scene of a multi-victim shooting in the Northwest District.’

The intersection of Park Heights Avenue and Shirley Avenue in Northwest Baltimore where officers are responding to a multi-victim shooting scene

As the shooting took place in Northwest Baltimore, law enforcement leaders were gathered across town in East Baltimore for a press conference.

Mayor Brandon Scott, along with Maryland District Attorney Erek Barron and several other top federal, state, city officials spoke at Tench Tilghman park to discuss how a boost in state funding is being used to fight crime ‘by any legal means necessary.’

Barron said the state wouldn’t hesitate to go after violent offenders for lesser offenses like fraud in order to get them off the streets — the ‘Al Capone method.’

As the shooting took place in Northwest Baltimore, law enforcement leaders were gathered across town in East Baltimore for a press conference

Maryland District Attorney Erek Barron said the state wouldn’t hesitate to go after violent offenders for lesser offenses like fraud in order to get them off the streets, what he described as the ‘Al Capone method’

Mayor Brandon Scott, who in 2021 led efforts to cut police funding by $22 million as a city councilman before pleading over the spring for $27 million more for the police department

Baltimore saw 337 homicides in 2021, up from 334 in 2020, and well above the 290 that the city’s Mayor Brandon Scott had hoped his new ‘violence reduction’ strategies would bring the homicide rate down to in 2021.

‘We can’t accept that this life loss is normal,’ Scott, who last year led efforts to cut police funding by $22 million as a city councilman before pleading over the spring for $27 million more for the police department, told the Baltimore Sun Times.

Nonfatal shootings increased from 721 in 2020, to 726 in 2021 – roughly a 1 percent increase

The Charm City saw a slight increase in murders from 334 in 2020