15-Year-Old Boy Shot & Killed In Southeast Baltimore Tuesday Afternoon

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A shooting successful Highlandtown this day near a teen dead.

Officers were called to East Baltimore Street astatine North Highland Avenue wherever they recovered a 15-year-old antheral teen suffering from a gunshot wound.

“We heard gunshots successful the backmost from the house.”

Neighbors said they heard the dependable of gunshots and rushed their kids wrong earlier looking extracurricular their model to spot what was happening.

“They looked similar they were arguing, but we seen 3 guys and they tally away.”

Across the street, sounds of commotion Brought Kewal Singh retired of his barroom and into the sidewalk lone to find a teen lying connected the ground.

“He was lying implicit determination successful the adjacent twelvemonth and helium was bleeding,” said Kewal Singh.

Police said the 15-year-old was transported to an country infirmary wherever helium aboriginal died.

“I tin spot the humor implicit present you tin spot the humor spots,” said Singh.

Officers were called to the country of East Baltimore Street astir 1:41 p.m. aft a study of a shooting.

“It’s atrocious due to the fact that radical are scared,” said Singh.

This is the 2nd teen killed successful the past week owed to weapon unit successful Baltimore City. Jay’Nyi Weeden was changeable past Tuesday and died implicit the weekend. She was besides conscionable 15-years-old.

Mayor Brandon Scott wrote connected Twitter, “Ja’nyi’s beingness was taken earlier she was capable to afloat scope her potential.”

“We request to bash much arsenic a city. We request to stay committed and to grant his household and his beingness and his bequest due to the fact that it is conscionable truthful achy to ticker idiosyncratic suffer their beingness similar this,” said Zeke Cohen.

A tiny memorial has been built wherever the teen was shot.

WJZ spoke to the household who said they are connected the mode to the infirmary to spot their lad and accidental their goodbyes.

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