Man Shot Near Pizza Bolis at Orleans Street and Patterson Park Avenue

Three months after James Bushrod, 55, was shot and killed five blocks north on North Patterson Park Avenue in what became Baltimore's first homicide of 2026, gunfire returned to the same corridor Tuesday when a man was shot at the intersection of Orleans Street and North Patterson Park Avenue.

Southeast District officers and Baltimore's Community Assisted Response and Engagement team responded to the scene outside Pizza Bolis, the neighborhood shop at 243 N. Patterson Park Ave. that serves as a daily gathering point for residents from Fells Point, Broadway East, and the rowhouse blocks fringing Patterson Park's western edge. No victim name or condition had been released.

The April 1 shooting adds to a persistent run of gun violence along the Orleans and Patterson Park corridors. On March 1, a 23-year-old man was shot just blocks west in the 1000 block of Orleans Street. Together, the incidents trace a stretch where transit riders, late-shift workers, and students from nearby Patterson High School routinely move after dark.

Baltimore closed 2025 with 133 homicides, the city's lowest total in nearly 50 years and a 31 percent drop from 2024. Through early March 2026, Mayor Brandon Scott's office reported the city was tracking roughly even with that record-low pace: 22 homicides and 41 non-fatal shootings. The non-fatal shooting clearance rate stood at 44 percent, more than 20 percentage points above BPD's 10-year average.

Anyone with information on Tuesday's shooting can contact Southeast District detectives at 410-396-2422. The Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, which coordinates Safe Streets sites and credible-messenger outreach in nearby Broadway East, can be reached at 443-984-1467.