A 29-year-old man accused of first-degree murder in a July shooting near the Maryland Penitentiary that killed one man and wounded eight bystanders was in surgery last night at Sinai Hospital after being shot several times Wednesday night in Northwest Baltimore.
Police have not been able to question Tyrone Taylor of the 2300 block of McCulloh St. since his hospitalization and do not know if the shooting was related to the July incident, said Detective David Neverdon.
"Hopefully, if he survives, he'll be able to shed some light on it," Detective Neverdon said. "It's totally possible that it's related, but we just don't know."
Mr. Taylor was shot in the right side, right arm and right leg as he sat behind the wheel of his 1989 BMW. His passengers, his 4-year-old daughter and his 29-year-old girlfriend, were not injured.
Because the child and the woman witnessed the shooting, police declined to identify them. According to police, an unidentified gunman approached the passenger's side of Mr. Taylor's car from a white van that was stopped in front of the BMW at a red light at the intersection of Reisterstown Road and Fords Lane.
The gunman fired several shots into the car with a semiautomatic handgun, missing the child as she sat next to her father in a child's car seat, but hitting Mr. Taylor at least five times, according to a police spokesman.
The gunman returned to the van, which sped north on Reisterstown Road.
Mr. Taylor was taken by ambulance to Sinai Hospital.
He is charged in the July 6 shootout in the 1000 block of Greenmount Ave. that led to the death of one bystander and wounded eight people. Louis Flowers, 21, of the 4800 block of Calumet Ave., died several hours after being shot in the head.
Mr. Taylor was arrested later that day and charged with first-degree murder and a handgun violation. He was held at the Baltimore Detention Center until he made $175,000 bail in September.
The second gunman involved, Anthony Shands, 25, was shot to death in October by an unknown man near North Avenue and Charles Street, according to Detective Walter Akers.