Three men wounded in separate Baltimore shootings Friday evening

Three men were wounded in three separate Baltimore shootings Friday evening, moving from Southwest Baltimore to Northeast Baltimore and then downtown in a little more than two hours.

The first shooting was reported at 6:17 p.m. in the 200 block of North Gilmore Street. Officers found a 44-year-old man with a gunshot wound and took him to a hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

A little more than an hour later, police responded to reports of gunfire near Belair Road and Parkside Drive in Northeast Baltimore. Officers initially found no signs of gunfire at that intersection, but detectives later determined the shooting happened in the 4200 block of Belair Road and started with an argument that escalated. A 30-year-old man later walked into a hospital seeking treatment, and police said his injury was non-life-threatening.

The third shooting came at 8:36 p.m. in the 800 block of West Lexington Street. Officers found a 51-year-old man who had been shot and took him to a hospital. Police said his injuries were non-life-threatening, and the victim was expected to survive.

The three scenes, involving men ages 44, 30 and 51, highlighted how quickly gun violence can spread across Baltimore neighborhoods in one evening. The incidents unfolded in Southwest Baltimore, Northeast Baltimore and the downtown corridor, each requiring a different police response: an officer-detected shooting on North Gilmore Street, a walk-in hospital victim tied to the Belair Road case, and another wounded man found on West Lexington Street.

The violence landed against a backdrop of broader declines in city crime. Baltimore Police said the city finished 2025 with 133 homicides and 311 non-fatal shootings, both record lows for the city. Those totals were down from 194 homicides and 412 non-fatal shootings in 2024. Mayor Brandon M. Scott said in January that homicides and shootings were down nearly 60% since 2021.

Even with those gains, Friday’s shootings showed how often Baltimore still absorbs multiple gunfire calls in a single night, with victims arriving by ambulance, on their own, or after police find them at the scene. The North Gilmore Street corridor has also seen another recent shooting in March, when a 40-year-old man was killed and a 44-year-old man was critically injured, adding to concerns in that part of Southwest Baltimore.