Shooting in Baltimore leaves several injured as police search for 3 gunmen

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Three gunmen shot and wounded eight people, including a 3-year-old girl, on an east Baltimore street on Saturday night, police said, adding that the suspects fled and the victims were all expected to survive.

The shooting erupted outside some rowhouses about 8:30pm after the three armed men converged on the group from different points, Baltimore Police commissioner Ken Davis told The Associated Press.

Davis, who went to the scene, said the shooting was a premeditated act of retaliatory violence in response to a Labor Day weekend shooting in which a person was fatally shot and two others were wounded, including a pregnant woman. He did not immediately explain how investigators believed the shootings were linked.

Davis said the victims could have recognised the gunmen but authorities haven’t immediately been able to identify the suspects and were still searching for them hours afterward.

According to the commissioner, one of the armed men emerged from an alley and two others ran down the street, stopping just short of the victims before they opened fire. He added that the 3-year-old girl and her father were standing a slight distance away from the others and that the child was not an intended target.

Authorities have said one of the attackers had a shotgun and the other two had handguns.

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Baltimore police work at a scene where multiple people were shot in Baltimore. (AP Photo)

Davis said that in addition to the girl, one of the victims was a woman and the rest men ranging in ages from 26 to 39.

The shooting occurred just a block from where the city held a party earlier Saturday for an event. Police said the attack was unrelated to that party in which the city dedicated “Open Works,” a project billed as an innovative work space.

Baltimore Police spokesperson TJ Smith tweeted earlier that none of the injuries was life-threatening but he didn’t elaborate further.

Police cordoned off at least three city blocks late on Saturday and were keeping bystanders away as the police commissioner stood with detectives at the scene. Nearby, detectives used flashlight to search overgrown grass in an alley near the shooting scene. Police cars also blocked a nearby intersection.
 
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