WMAR March 2026 Baltimore murders and shootings tracker updated March 4

WMAR updated its March 2026 murders and shootings tracker through March 4 and includes a March 1 entry recording a 23-year-old man shot in the 1000 block of Orleans Street at 1:57 p.m.; the tracker notes, "3/1 - 1:57pm: A 23-year-old man was shot in the 1000 block of Orleans Street. He is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries."

The update sits against a sharply lower annual total for the city: WMAR reports Baltimore City wrapped the year 2025 with 133 homicides, down 61 from 2024, providing context for February and early March activity. The station’s February 2026 counts show 11 recorded homicides and 15 non-fatal shootings, figures the March tracker is building on as incidents are logged day by day.

The March tracker file contains a repeated entry indicating a separate incident on Liberty Heights Avenue. The excerpted lines read, "Multiple victims in shooting on Liberty Heights Avenue in Baltimore," repeated three times in WMAR’s excerpt, but the supplied update excerpt does not include a date, time, victim ages, injury status, or location details beyond the street name.

WMAR frames the tracker as an ongoing record: "What the tracker shows: WMAR maintains a daily 'monthly tracker' that logs homicides and non-fatal shootings across Baltimore City." The March tracker itself is described in the excerpt as: "The March 2026 tracker (updated through March 4) lists individual incidents with dates, neighborhoods and brief condition updates; it also provides monthly and year-to-" and that sentence is truncated in the supplied material.

Those documented entries illustrate the tracker’s method and limits. WMAR-2 News has tracked daily murders and shootings in the city each month since September 2020, and the March file available through March 4 contains incident-level notes such as the Orleans Street shooting and the Liberty Heights Avenue multi-victim reference while not supplying full case outcomes or arrest information in the excerpt provided.

Key figures and gaps are clear: the city’s 2025 total of 133 homicides and the February 2026 counts of 11 homicides and 15 non-fatal shootings are explicit in WMAR’s reporting, while March totals beyond the March 4 cutoff and full particulars for the Liberty Heights Avenue entry are not included in the supplied excerpts. The tracker continues to function as WMAR’s day-to-day ledger for murders and non-fatal shootings in Baltimore, with entries updated through March 4, 2026, as the newsroom compiles incident dates, neighborhoods, and condition updates.