Baltimore logs 46th homicide after fatal Southeast District shooting
A man was shot dead on Leverton Street just after midnight, lifting Baltimore to 46 homicides and keeping the Southeast District in the city’s violence pattern.
A midnight shooting on Leverton Street pushed Baltimore to 46 homicides for 2026, underscoring how violence is still clustering in the Southeast District even as the city’s overall numbers remain below last year’s pace. For residents around the 3400 block, the latest killing adds another block to a year already marked by repeated gunfire calls.
Baltimore police said officers responded to the 3400 block of Leverton Street at about 12:14 a.m. on June 23, 2026, and found an unidentified man suffering from a gunshot wound. Police later described the case as Baltimore’s 46th homicide of the year.
The latest death comes after a year in which Baltimore finished 2025 with 133 homicides, the fewest in nearly 50 years, according to Mayor Brandon M. Scott’s office. The city was also ahead of last year’s pace in early June, with 40 homicides as of the morning of June 5, compared with 54 at the same point in 2025. That gap matters for neighborhoods trying to gauge whether the city’s violence-reduction strategy is holding or whether summer pressure is beginning to erode progress.
May’s totals show the burden has not disappeared. WMAR 2 News reported that Baltimore recorded 8 homicides and 32 non-fatal shootings in May 2026, a reminder that the city’s drop from last year has not meant calm on the ground. In the Southeast District, police also responded on May 7 to the 6200 block of Eastern Avenue, where they later announced an attempted-murder arrest, and on June 6 to the 700 block of North Collington Avenue, where a 15-year-old boy was shot and suffered a non-life-threatening wound.
Baltimore Police directs residents to preliminary crime data through Open Baltimore and a public crime map, while The Baltimore Sun’s homicide database tracks cases from 2007 through 2026 and was current through June 22. Those tools show a city still trying to convert broad gains into block-by-block safety, with the Southeast District remaining one of the places where that test is unfolding in real time.
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