Six men were wounded, one fatally, last night during what Baltimore City police believe was a drive-by shooting on a street just north of Green Mount Cemetery, authorities said. The occupants of a gray Nissan Altima seen speeding away from the East Baltimore scene were being sought.
Shortly before 9:30 p.m., Eastern District police responding to multiple shots fired in the 2000 block of Boone St. found several young adult males suffering from gunshot wounds. A Fire Department official said victims also were found nearby, in the 2000 block of Greenmount Ave.
"We had chaos," Agent Donny Moses, a city police spokesman, said last night. "It was six victims, and we're really just trying to settle everybody down."
Moses said police did not know of a motive for the shootings.
Police said it was not certain whether all the shootings occurred at one location or if some of the victims fled the original shooting scene to escape their assailants. Police blocked off the streets surrounding the shootings and were interviewing residents who might have witnessed the attacks.
A Fire Department official said some victims were taken by ambulances to Johns Hopkins Hospital. Police said one victim died there. Other victims were taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and to Union Memorial Hospital. Their conditions were not immediately available.
Police said the victims were on the sidewalk on Boone Street when a gray car pulled up with its lights out. At least two people were inside the car, according to police, and the assailants might have gotten out of the car and opened fire.
A neighbor who lived on nearby 20th Street said she was upstairs in her house on her computer when she heard nine shots. She said she turned off all the lights and looked out the window and saw two men lying in the street. She said she ran out of her house and went over to one of the men who had been shot to see if she could help.
"I saw one lying face down, and one lying on his back with his right leg up," said the woman, who asked not to be identified out of concern for her safety. "Then other people came down and started surrounding one of the men. It looked like family."
Homicide detectives and district uniform police were investigating the shootings.