2 dead in wake of carjacking, shooting along busy corridor
When Baltimore police located a stolen vehicle parked along West North Avenue late Friday morning with its doors flung open and saw people running eastward, officers quickly realized a quadruple shooting had unfolded moments earlier, marking the latest display of gun violence along the busy transit corridor that cuts through West Baltimore.
A group of suspects — officials believe three — hopped out of the stolen vehicle in the 3100 block of West North Avenue around 10:30 a.m., started shooting down the block and then carjacked another vehicle to make their escape, Deputy Police Commissioner Sheree Briscoe said at the scene. Two gunshot victims died from their injuries.
The other two are hospitalized and
expected to survive: a man in his late 20s who was shot in the back and found inside a home on West North Avenue, and a 63-yearold woman with a gunshot wound to the ankle.
Police believe one of the four victims was targeted because that person got into an argument with the suspects, but officials
were unsure about the others.
They said one of the people with nonfatal injuries was waiting at a nearby bus stop when bullets started flying.
After the shooting, the suspects drove the carjacked vehicle a short distance, crashed