Five shot across Baltimore over weekend, two remain critical

Weekend gunfire stretched from Lafayette Square to Northern Parkway to North Avenue, and then turned up again in a hospital, leaving five people shot across Baltimore and two fighting critical injuries. The scenes were spread across the city, not concentrated on one block, a pattern that can unsettle multiple neighborhoods at once and keep detectives, emergency rooms and families moving on the same weekend clock.

Police were first called Saturday afternoon to the 1100 block of West Lafayette Avenue near Lafayette Square Park, where a 44-year-old man was shot and taken to a hospital in critical condition. Later that day, a 42-year-old woman walked into a hospital with a gunshot wound to her leg. Investigators believe that shooting happened in the 7100 block of Harford Road, north of Northern Parkway.

By early Sunday morning, officers were called to the 1800 block of Falls Road near North Avenue, where a 23-year-old woman was shot and hospitalized in critical condition. Police later said two more victims, a 31-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man, also arrived at a hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds after a separate shooting that was not immediately tied to a public location in the update.

The weekend toll underscored how quickly violence can spill across city neighborhoods and into hospitals before investigators have a full picture of what happened. It also reflected the pressure on blocks that sit near busy corridors and residential areas alike, from Lafayette Square Park to the stretch near Northern Parkway and the Falls Road corridor.

The shootings came as Baltimore continued to track a violent year that has shifted week by week. As of April 1, city officials said Baltimore had recorded 28 homicides and 61 non-fatal shootings in 2026, compared with 32 homicides and 66 non-fatal shootings at the same point in 2025. Mayor Brandon M. Scott has said the city saw historic reductions in gun violence in 2023, 2024 and 2025. WMAR 2 News reported that Baltimore ended 2025 with 133 homicides, down 61 from 2024, and that March 2026 brought 7 recorded homicides and 20 non-fatal shootings.

CBS Baltimore reported that the weekend victims were three men and two women, with the youngest 23 years old. The outlet also said that as of April 10, police had reported 31 homicide victims and 69 non-fatal shootings in 2026, and that 418 people had been shot in Baltimore over the prior 12 months. People ages 22 to 25 were the most victimized in that period, with 15 killed and 46 shot.

Police asked anyone with information to contact Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP. The Baltimore Police Department’s public crime map and Open Baltimore data show shooting reports are based on incident records that are updated regularly, which means weekend totals can change as detectives narrow down locations, victims and case details.