Three shot, two fatally, in East Baltimore Thursday afternoon

19 people killed in October after 10 days without a homicide

Crime scene at 2000 block of Kennedy Ave., near Cecil Elementary School and north of Green Mount Cemetery.(Justin, Baltimore Sun / October 31, 2013)

By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun

7:52 p.m. EDT, October 31, 2013

Three men were shot — two fatally — in two separate incidents that occurred within hours Thursday afternoon in the same East Baltimore neighborhood, police said.

The first shooting was reported about 1:10 p.m. in the 2000 block of Kennedy Ave. near Cecil Elementary School and north of Green Mount Cemetery in East Baltimore's Midway neighborhood. A police spokeswoman said one victim was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was pronounced dead about 2 p.m. at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The victims were not immediately identified.

Then, just before 6 p.m., a man was reported shot and wounded in the 700 block of E. 21st St., just a few blocks west of the first incident. Details were not immediately available, but detectives were investigating.

Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts visited the Kennedy Avenue crime scene, talking to homicide commander Capt. Stanley Brandford. When the mother of the second victim arrived, she was driven to the hospital by a homicide supervisor.

The shootings occurred in the street, and detectives were crouched over evidence markers and what appeared to be clothing on the ground in front of a rowhouse. Onlookers said they knew the victims, but declined to comment.

Anyone with information was asked to call homicide detectives at 410-396-2100.

After 10 days to start the month without a homicide, 19 people have been killed in Baltimore during October, for a total of 195 this year.

Two of this month's cases are deaths resulting from attacks in previous years. The latest was the death of Michael Stewart, 38, who was shot in the 1900 block of N. Rosedale St. in the Walbrook neighborhood on June 3, 1998.

Stewart died Aug. 16 of this year of complications from the gunshot wounds, and his killing was added to this year's list of homicides, which is standard in such cases. A police spokesman said the case remains unsolved.