New York Daily News

Baltimore mass shooting leaves 1 dead & 5 hurt

- BY JESSICA SCHLADEBEC­K AND BRIAN NIEMIETZ

One man was killed and another five people wounded, including a 15-year-old boy, in an overnight mass shooting in Baltimore, authoritie­s said Thursday.

Police responded to the city’s Mosher neighborho­od shortly after midnight and discovered the victims, including an unidentifi­ed man who was pronounced dead at the scene, the Baltimore Police Department said.

Four men — ages 18, 21, 22 and 24 — and the teenage boy were all transporte­d to area hospitals with apparent gunshot wounds, according to police. They have not been publicly named.

They were listed in stable condition except for the 24-year-old, who remained in critical condition Thursday afternoon.

Authoritie­s did not announce any arrests or provide details about what led to the shooting.

However, an automated ShotSpotte­r alert drew cops to a Carroll Motor Fuels gas station around midnight. Baltimore Police Commission­er Michael Harrison told reporters a vehicle carrying “multiple shooters” had recently pulled into the gas station parking lot, where its passengers opened fire.

“Multiple shooters exited that vehicle and began to shoot indiscrimi­nately into a crowd of people who were gathered at that location and struck six individual­s,” Harrison said. “Those individual­s got back into that car and fled and made their escape.”

Police are examining surveillan­ce video and looking for witnesses.

“It’s a little frightenin­g, but I’m in Baltimore City,” one anonymous resident told WBAL-TV. “This kind of goes on all the time.”

A comprehens­ive study published by Forbes in January listed Baltimore as the nation’s fourth most-dangerous city.

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