A man was fatally shot in East Baltimore last night - hours after another man was stabbed to the death in the same section of the city, police said.
About 7:30 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified man was shot in the 400 block of N. Bouldin St., police said.
Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman, said police found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the head and lying in the street. Monroe said the man was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. No arrest had been made and a motive was unknown, she said. The victim was the city's 168th slaying this year, compared with 139 at the same time last year.
About 1:30 a.m., Eastern District police officers found a man lying wounded in an alley in the 200 block of S. Herring Court near the Perkins Homes public housing complex, bleeding from multiple stab wounds in the chest. Paramedics took him to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where police said he died about 4 a.m.
Detectives said they believe the man may have been involved in a fight with another man, who stabbed him. The victim had not been identified by police.
About an hour later, officers in the Western District went to the 2200 block of N. Warwick Ave. to check on a report of a shooting. Police said officers found an injured man three blocks away, in the 2000 block of N. Bentalou St., sitting on the front steps of a home, suffering from a gunshot wound to his left arm.
The man, whose name was not released by police, was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
Police also reported yesterday that a 59-year-old East Baltimore man died from a beating he suffered Sunday. Three or four men beat the man and his female friend during a dispute in the woman's home in the 4400 block of Parkton St. in Southwest Baltimore, and then robbed them of about $1,000, police said. The woman, whose name was not released because she is a witness, was also assaulted, but not seriously injured, police said.
The victim, identified as Clayborn Johnson, suffered serious head injuries and died Tuesday at Shock Trauma, police said.
Twenty-nine more people have been killed this year compared with last year at this time, and recent city police statistics show that about 100 more people have been injured in shootings during the same year-over-year period.
City police and Mayor Sheila Dixon have decried the violence and say they are taking steps to curtail the shootings - with foot patrols and added enforcement of illegal handgun possession - but the rate of homicides has quickened over the past two months.
Since May 1, an average of one person a day has been killed in Baltimore, crime statistics show, putting the city on pace to surpass 300 homicides this year for the first time since 1999.
Gus.sentementes@baltsun.com