BALTIMORE — An altercation outside a bar escalated into deadly gunfire in Baltimore’s Carrollton Ridge neighborhood early Saturday, ending a five-day stretch of relative peace when the city recorded no homicides.
Three other separate shootings Friday night, two shootings Saturday and one Sunday also left people injured — including another fatal shooting and a shooting just around the corner from the Carrollton Ridge homicide, which unfolded around 12:40 a.m. Saturday near the intersection of South Bentalou and Ashton streets.
Baltimore Police said Southwest District officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the area. Once there, they found an unidentified male victim lying unresponsive in a nearby alley adjacent to the 2300 block of Ashton Street, which runs along the eastern edge of Catherine Street Park across from the Westside Shopping Center. The victim was transported to Shock Trauma but pronounced dead shortly after arriving, officials said.
