Two men were shot about 16 hours apart in the same Northeast Baltimore block, amid four shootings in the city Wednesday, police said.
A 29-year-old man was shot in the head at about 4:21 p.m. in the 2700 block of Hugo Ave. near Clifton Park in Coldstream Homestead Montebello, where a 24-year-old man was grazed in the neck with a bullet at about 12:41 a.m., police said.
Police did not say whether the shootings — near the corner where a 16-year-old was killed in January 2014 — were related. Northeast District detectives are investigating, and anyone with information may call 410-396-2444.
At about 2:38 p.m. Wednesday, a man was shot in the back in the 3700 block of St. Margaret St. in Brooklyn, police said.
Anyone with information may call 410-396-2499. Southern District Detectives were investigating, but no further information was available.
On the city's north side, a 19-year-old man was shot at about 2 a.m. in the 1100 block of E. Northern Pkwy. of the Glen Oaks neighborhood, police said. The man walked into an area hospital at 4:17 a.m., with a wound to his leg, police said. Northern District Detectives are investigating and anyone with information may call 410-396-2455.
Through Wednesday night, police have reported 248 shootings and 136 homicides in 2015. At the same time last year, Baltimore had 91 homicides among 137 shootings, police said.
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