Weekend shooting spate
The note from Baltimore Police Department's chief spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, came out mid-afternoon on Saturday:
"Commissioner Bealefeld is meeting with various section chiefs about a revised deployment which will include an increased presence by the Patrol division and specialized deployments in strategic areas by undercover operations units and the Violent Crime Impact Division (VCID). Investigators do have some positive leads in some of these shootings and detectives are currently working to determine if there is a commonality among them. Community intelligence is vital to these investigations and Police are asking anyone with any information to come forward."
When I got in this morning I tallied the numbers. I count 11 shootings (at least 13 victims) from Friday night to roughly 11 p.m. Sunday. Two dead (see the Baltimore's Sun's homicide map). A number of juveniles among the wounded, including a 16-year-old shot in a dispute at Pop Warner football game on North Franklintown Road.
Seven people were shot before the note came out and four more were shot after. The shootins, as listed by the Police Department's Facebook and Twitter pages:
Sunday
2400 Maisel Court, homicide, 11 p.m.
2100 Aiken St., male shot in leg, 11:43 a.m.
Saturday
1200 Franklintown Road, 16-year-old shot in leg, 9:41 p.m.
1000 Billie Holiday Court, male shot in side, 4:01 p.m.
2000 Rupp St., male shot in leg, 1:13 p.m.
1300 W. Baltimore St., 1:06 p.m.
300 S. Spring Court, shot in stomach, 1 p.m.
Harford and Lanvale, shot in thigh, 3 a.m.
Jasper and Druid Hill Ave., shot in leg, 1:45 a.m.
1600 Cypress St., shot in head and chest, homicide, 12:40 a.m.
Friday
3800 Sinclair Lane, three shot in legs, 9:52 p.m.








Comments
also on Friday, Yellowwood/Yellowbrick
http://spotcrime.com/crime/6692115-6ec23d719240909cbdccfc5013621188
Posted by: mjb | September 21, 2009 10:43 AM
So what new startegies has the BCPD implementd to stem the violence? Oh yeah, a sleepover in Leakin Park...
Posted by: steve in seoul | September 21, 2009 4:37 PM
There are too many homicides in the U.S.
http://socyberty.com/crime/dead-bodies-have-languished-for-14-years/
Posted by: John | September 22, 2009 9:01 AM
WAAH, WAH,POOR GUIFORD RESIDENTS.MY NORTHEAST NEIGHBORHOOD..HAS SUFFERED 2 CARJACKS AND A ROBBERY AT GUN POINT,IN BROAD DAYLIGHT ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT GUN POINT TOO...NEVER SAW ANY EXTRA POLICE NEVER CAUGHT THE GUYS AND CERTAINLY NO NEWS HEADLINES....SINCE 2000 THE MURDER RATE HAS DOUBLED IN THE NORTHEAST...NO THANKS TO OMALLEY,CURRAN OR DIXON..MOST OF THAT INCREASE HAPPENED UNDER OMALLEY AND CURRAN....GOOD POLITICIANS FOR SURE ,SAD REPS FOR QUALITY OF LIFE. IN THE NORTHEAST,NOT JUST GUILFORD.
Posted by: mike | January 15, 2010 8:25 PM