Less than three days after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake helped neighbors re-dedicate a memorial to a slain 6-year-old girl in the Walbrook area, two men were injured in a shooting one block away - one of three shootings incidents overnight that left five people injured.

The memorial to Tiffany Smith, killed in 1996 when she was struck by an errant bullet during a gunfight, had fallen by the wayside in recent years, but the city helped rebuild it after snow plows destroyed it during last year's blizzards. At an event Tuesday afternoon, residents said the neighborhood grapples with crime and an overwhelming problem with vacant homes and businesses, though a major development project slated to begin in the fall was cause for optimism. Rawlings-Blake touted her crime initiatives, including recently-passed gun legislation and the hiring of 300 new police officers, and urged residents to work with police.

At the shooting scene, at the intersection of North Rosedale Street and West North Avenue, shoes and socks of one of the victims lay on the street corner near a pizza place. An employee of the store recalled a regular customer who was gunned down in the area, and she said doesn't let her kids play outside. "Everybody's walking around with hatred," she said, though noting that despite the shootings, the abandonment in the neighborhood leaves the area typically quiet.

Fire union officials said on Twitter that the shooting occurred "next door" to a fire station that has been closed for months because of "poor upkeep by the city," likely causing a delay in the time it took medics to treat the victims.

Police were also investigating a double-shooting in the 2200 block of E. Biddle St., in East Baltimore, and said a man was shot in the chest in the 2800 block of Riggs Ave. in West Baltimore, less than a mile south of the shooting near Tiffany Square. Additional details were not immediately available.