One person was injured in the shooting.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: Three people were killed and a fourth was treated after a quadruple shooting in West Baltimore on Tuesday night, according to multiple city news outlets.
Two suspects opened fire after emerging from two light-colored vans that pulled over on West Fayette Street at 10:37 p.m. on Tuesday, campus police said, according to NBC News.
“A male and female were both transported to an area hospital where despite medical attempts, they succumbed to their injuries,” Detective Rashawn K. Strong of Baltimore Police Department said in a statement. “The second male was pronounced deceased at the scene.”
The University of Maryland, Baltimore, campus, which sits a few blocks east of the shooting scene, was first to report the incident, reported the Baltimore Sun.
The newspaper also revealed police believe the shooting was not a random act of violence, but a targeted incident.
It is the second shooting at the location in under a week. Shots were previously fired into a vehicle travelling in the same block on July 2, wounding a passenger.
Cheryl Valentine, 57, told The Sun that she was watching a movie last night while visiting her daughter in Poppleton when she thought she heard firecrackers, perhaps left over from Fourth of July, going off outside.
Looking outside, she said the first thing she saw was the police tape. Then she noticed the ambulances, and then she saw the three bodies laying prostrate on the road.
“It doesn’t make no sense what’s going on in the streets,” she said. “The killing needs to stop. We aren’t hurting nobody but the families.”
The deaths raise the tally of reported homicides in Baltimore to 155 for the year, according to police data.