BALTIMORE — A gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd that had gathered for Sunday afternoon cookouts along a west Baltimore street, killing a man and wounding seven other people, authorities and reports said. Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the gunfire erupted after 5 p.m. on a block in the city’s western district of brick row homes. One man who was shot collapsed behind a Baptist church nearby and was pronounced dead at the scene. Police officers could be seen after the shooting placing small orange evidence markers on the ground, just feet from a barber shop. Baltimore has been plagued by drug-fueled violence for decades and it has long been considered one of the nation’s most violent big cities.

Source: National Post April 28, 2019 22:59 UTC