Baltimore police were searching Thursday for the gunmen who opened fire on a busy East Baltimore intersection injuring seven people, including a 4-year-old girl.
A reward of up to $5,000 for information that assists police in apprehending suspects is being offered by the Youth Peace & Justice Foundation, a Texas-based organization founded after the Uvalde shooting that killed 19 children.
The 4-year-old girl is in serious but stable condition, police said Thursday morning, after she was rushed to a hospital for surgery. The other six victims, who were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries, were 16, 18, 20, 20, 21 and 43, police said Thursday. Initially, police said a 3-year-old boy was shot, but said in an update that the child is a 4-year-old girl.
Baltimore Police officers responded to the 200 block of North Caroline Street and East Fayette Street shortly after 9 p.m. and found multiple people shot. Officers immediately drove the 4-year-old to the hospital, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said Wednesday, while medics tended to other victims before taking them to the hospital.
The shooting happened in the area of a busy intersection that leads to the Douglass Homes housing complex. There’s a small park with benches on one corner, a bus stop and a busy liquor store on the other corners.
There are surveillance cameras all around. The brazen shooting happened Wednesday night despite a police car parked nearby, one neighbor said.
Worley said the department will “work diligently to find out who did this cowardly act and hopefully hold them accountable.”
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, who stood alongside Worley at the scene Wednesday night, said anyone involved in the shooting should turn themselves in.
“There is no way, to those individuals, there is no way for you to reclaim humanity after doing that,” Scott said. “But if you want to try to save yourself and save your soul, turn yourself in. Because everyone in the goddamn city should be looking for you.”
Banner reporters Tim Prudente, Darreonna Davis and Sara Ruberg contributed to this article.
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