Baltimore Weekend Slayings Leave 3 Dead
BALTIMORE (WJZ)--An investigation is underway--after a city police officer shoots a suspect in the face in Northwest Baltimore.
This--as Baltimore Police investigate at least 7 shootings and a fire in which police believe the victim was killed then torched.
Amy Yensi has the latest.
Bullet shells mark the spot where police say an officer opened fire and shot a suspect in the face.
Mac Jones was teaching his grandson to ride his bike when shots rang out.
"As we started up the street we heard the multiple gunshots. So I picked him up. We ran in the house," said Mac Jones.
Officers were called to St. Charles and Belvedere Avenue Sunday morning for a car accident when a armed man was pointed out to them. They chased him to the 5200 block of Eleanora Avenue where the suspect ran inside an auto repair garage.
"While inside the garage, two citizens from inside the garage came running out . The officers engaged the suspect and the suspect was shot," Col. Garnell Green, Baltimore City Police.
Officials would not say how many officers were involved, what led them to open fire, and how many times the man was hit. The unidentified man was taken to a local hospital.
"We have recovered a handgun inside that building, which we believe belonged to the suspect," Green said.
The police-involved shooting comes on the heels of a violent weekend in the city.
Two men were killed Sunday: one in the 5200 block of Park Heights Ave., and the other on Annapolis Road. A 13-year-old boy was also shot, he is expected to survive.
A total of six confirmed shootings were reported this weekend alone:
- 2 boys shot in the back in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave.
- 1 man shot in the shoulder in the 3900 block of 2nd
- 1 man shot multiple times in the 5200 block of Park Heights Ave. The 22-year-old victim died at the scene.
- 1 man shot in the elbow in the 2400 block of Frederick Ave.
- 1 woman found dead inside of residential blaze in the 6100 block of Eastern Parkway.
- 1 man shot in the back on Annapolis Road and Kent Street. The victim later died from his injuries at the hospital.
- 13-year-old shot in the 200 block of Cherry Hill Road.
"People are coming from all parts of the city to come over here to buy drugs. I mean the police knows it. The mayor knows it. Everybody knows that," said Jones.
The man who was shot by police is in critical but stable condition.
Homicide detectives are also investigating a deadly city fire in which a woman was found dead. Police believe she was killed and then the suspect attempted to burn the residence down.
