Mass shooting leaves 7 injured

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore constabulary are investigating a wide shooting that injured 7 people, including a 16-year-old.
It happened Sunday day astatine the country of North Montford Avenue and East Preston Street.

The Commissioner said each 7 victims person non-life-threatening injuries.

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“This is simply a precise heinous act,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said. “A precise cowardly act. Very brazen enactment successful wide daylight. Not to mention, connected a vacation play erstwhile radical are expected to beryllium enjoying themselves.”

Police said a ShotSpotter alerted them of the shooting astir 3:30 p.m.

Officers said they recovered 4 victims connected the street, 2 others had already gone to the infirmary earlier they arrived. A seventh victim, a 16-year-old, was recovered a abbreviated region away.

“The full block’s blocked off,” Ronald Perry, who lives successful the area, said. “It’s ridiculous. It’s sad.”

On the scene, determination was what appeared to beryllium a car crashed into an Amazon transportation van. Police bash not cognize if this is connected to the shooting.

Evidence markers besides lined the street.

Police accidental astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic opened fire.

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“It appears that determination whitethorn beryllium much than 1 caliber round, which means much than 1 weapon and what we don’t cognize is if idiosyncratic was firing backmost (or) if determination was aggregate shooters,” the Commissioner said.

Community members, stunned by the violence, are calling connected metropolis leaders to marque it stop.

“It’s astir coming successful the neighborhoods, making definite that youth, oregon adjacent adults, cognize that they person a choice,” Perry said. “They person determination to go. They person radical that care.”

The Commissioner said determination were a batch of radical astir erstwhile the shooting happened.

He needs their assistance to drawback whoever is responsible.

“We’re pleading and pleading and pleading to get radical to travel guardant to assistance america due to the fact that this did not person to happen,” the Commissioner said. “Just ideate if it were you oregon if it were your children oregon your family. You would privation idiosyncratic to bash the precise aforesaid happening for you.”

If you cognize thing astir this shooting, you’re asked to telephone constabulary oregon Metro Crimestoppers.

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