Two men injured in southwest Baltimore shooting on Cranston Avenue

Gunfire returned to southwest Baltimore just as police were still dealing with the fallout from a fatal shooting nearby, leaving two men wounded on the 4100 block of Cranston Avenue and deepening the sense of instability around the area.

Baltimore Police said officers were called to the block at about 3:52 p.m. on May 25 after reports of gunfire. At the scene, officers found a 65-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to his lower body. He was taken to a nearby hospital and was listed in stable condition.

While officers were still working the block, another victim showed up at an area hospital. Police said a 35-year-old man walked in with a gunshot wound to his foot and was also listed in stable condition. Detectives later determined that he had been shot in the same 4100 block of Cranston Avenue.

Southwest District Shooting detectives took over the investigation, and police have not said whether the men knew each other, how many shooters may have been involved or whether anyone had been arrested. The case unfolded in the kind of layers that often force investigators to piece together witness accounts, scene evidence and hospital reports before a full picture comes into focus.

The timing underscored how fast violence can stack up in one part of the city. The Cranston Avenue shooting came one day after the fatal shooting on nearby Upmanor Road, and it followed another reported non-fatal shooting two days earlier. For residents and businesses in southwest Baltimore, that means repeated sirens, police tape and uncertainty on blocks that can go from ordinary afternoon traffic to a crime scene in minutes.

Baltimore Police reported 311 non-fatal shootings citywide in 2025, down from 412 in 2024, and 133 homicides, down from 194 the year before. Even with those declines, the Cranston Avenue case shows how quickly gun violence can cluster in a small stretch of the city and leave neighborhoods carrying the burden of repeated trauma.

Police also note that its Public Crime Map is updated regularly and can change as reports are corrected and investigations move forward. For now, Cranston Avenue joins a grim sequence of southwest Baltimore shootings that detectives are still trying to sort out.