Baltimore Sees 11 Shootings, 2 Fatal, Over The Weekend

On the heels of the most deadly month in 43 years, Baltimore saw 11 people shot, two of them fatally, in the first two days of August, including an incident in which seven people were shot.

“My office would never, ever compromise open and pending investigations when we’re attempting to get violent repeat offenders off the streets and convict murderers”, she declares.

Rioting in Baltimore took place after the funeral service of Freddie Gray in late April, who died from injuries he suffered while in police custody. The latest bloodshed follows the deadliest month in more than four decades: 45 homicides in July alone.

As Breitbart News has reported, Baltimore has had an “historic high” 191 murders in 2015, with half of them coming in the three months following April’s riots over the death of Freddie Gray and calls for an “uprising” by radical anti-police activist group Black Lives Matter. There was a brief dip in June, with 29 killings, but the number shot up again in July, breaking a 43-year record.

“These federal agencies are sending us agents and they’re going to be embedded with the BPD”, Davis said. The shooting, originally pegged by police to the 2200 block of W. Fayette St., was one of two to occur in the Penrose section of West Baltimore in approximately an hour early Sunday.

As of Sunday, the department’s “clearance rate” for closing homicide cases is 36 percent – significantly lower than its 46 percent average.

Davis announced the creation of a multiagency task for to deal with the upswing in homicides plaguing the city. Davis said he would join other police chiefs from across the country on Monday to discuss strategies to quell the violence.

“The seamless integration of information is also helping us to also close cases faster and identify persons of interest faster”, Rawlings-Blake said. “And we will continue to punch back as collaboratively and creatively as we can until we can break through this”.