Baltimore police were Twittering into overtime Tuesday night and this morning with a bunch of shootings -- including a triple in which one man died -- and several gun arrests. The spate of shootings in the city came a day after police announced that murders this year are down 33 percent when compared to the first quarter of last year, a 33-year low.
The fatal shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. in Northeast Baltimore in the 2200 block of Fleetwood Ave., near the old Northern High School.
A 25-year-old man who had been shot in the body was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A 24-year-old man went to Johns Hopkins Hospital with a gunshot wound to the back. And a 45-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his arm was taken to Sinai Hospital.
About an hour earlier, a man was shot in the hit in the 2900 block of Carver Road in South Baltimore's Cherry Hill and about 12:30 a.m. a man was shot in the side in the 3900 block of Reisterstown Road in Northwest Baltimore.
This morning, Baltimore police announced a series of gun arrests. A noise complaint in the 200 block of East Read St., at Guilford Avenue, in Mount Vernon. Police said the complaint led to the seizure of drugs, an SKS assault rifle and arrest of a 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman.
A search warrant in the 1900 block of Lauretta Ave. in West Baltimore led to police to drugs and a sawed-off Colombia 12-gauge shotgun and the arrest of a 29-year-old man. Another warrant served in South Baltimore's Morrell Park led police to more drugs, a ski mask and a loaded .45 caliber handgun. Two men, ages 19 and 52, were arrested. And police in Northwest Baltimore pulled over a car on Reisterstown Road and arrested a convicted felon with a gun that had been stolen from Colorado in 1992.
Meanwhile, more shootings were reported in Howard County:
Baltimore Sun reporter Liz Kay reports that four people were shot at two different locations early Wednesday in North Laurel, according to Howard County police. Investigators were working to determine whether the shootings are related.
At 12:51 a.m., officers responded to the 9100 block of Hitching Post Lane for a report of two gunshot victims. They were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where one was in critical condition and the other serious, police said. Two minutes later, police responded to a trailer park on Alma Avenue less than two miles away where two victims had been shot. Both of those people were also taken to Shock Trauma, where they were in serious condition.