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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Police connected Monday identified the gunman who was killed by an off-duty serviceman aft carrying retired a deadly shooting spree successful East Baltimore implicit the weekend.
Carlos Ortega, 38, was changeable dormant by an off-duty serviceman astir 3:15 p.m. Saturday aft helium walked into an O’Donnell Street barbershop and fatally changeable an employee, the Baltimore Police Department said.
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Ortega is suspected successful 2 different shootings earlier Saturday that near 1 antheral dormant and different injured.
The off-duty officer, whose sanction was not released, wasn’t injured.
No accusation astir a motive down the drawstring of shootings was instantly released.
The gunfire began soon aft 2:30 p.m. Saturday connected East Oliver Street, wherever patrol officers recovered a 37-year-old antheral suffering from aggregate gunshot wounds.
He was rushed to an country infirmary successful captious condition.
“Apparently determination was an statement that ensued,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said. “At immoderate point, this perpetrator produced a firearm and changeable an individual.”
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About 2:45 p.m., constabulary were called to a shooting adjacent the intersection of Eastern Avenue and Macon Street. Upon arrival, officers recovered Javier Cotto, 44, changeable aggregate times.
Cotto was taken to a infirmary but did not survive.
A half-hour later, constabulary said, Ortega drove to a barbershop successful O’Donnell Heights, walked wrong and changeable Rafael Jeffers, a 33-year-old barbershop employee.
It was astatine that point, Commissioner Harrison said, that Ortega was confronted and changeable by an equipped off-duty officer, who was getting his hairsbreadth chopped astatine the business.
“Responding to the shooting instantly and with large bravery, [the officer] produced his firearm and fired astatine the perpetrator, striking the perpetrator,” the commissioner said.
An probe into the shootings is ongoing.
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Anyone with accusation astir the lawsuit is asked to telephone Baltimore Police Department homicide detectives astatine 410-396-2100. Those who privation to enactment anonymous tin telephone Metro Crime Stoppers astatine 1-866-7LOCKUP.
CBS Baltimore Staff
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