Boy, 3, hurt in shooting afraid to come home, mother says

Man, 38, was also injured in East Baltimore incident

The mother of a 3-year-old boy who was grazed by a bullet Tuesday said her son is afraid to return home.

“I’m very devastated that my 3-year-old had to experience this,” Francsola Rice said Wednesday morning. “He’s like ‘Oh no, ma, I don’t want to go back there. They are going to hurt my other arm.’ ”

Rice said she and her son, Darrell, were waiting for a cab Tuesday afternoon on the porch of their home in the 600 block of N. Ellwood Ave. in East Baltimore before gunshots rang out. Rice said she heard her cellphone ringing inside the house and when she went inside to retrieve it, she heard “bop, bop, bop.”

Police said her son suffered a graze wound to his arm. Another victim, a 38-year-old man, was shot in the leg.

After she heard the gunshots, Rice said, the injured man ran into her home and closed the door, leaving her son outside. “My baby is screaming,” she recalled. Rice said she recognized the man from the neighborhood but did not know him