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| Police investigate murder scene at corner of E. 26th & Guilford |
A group of about a dozen neighbors stood outside in the cold night air, their gazes frozen, as they looked on in shock and disbelief at the bright red blood, still wet and flowing on the sidewalk, directly adjacent to end-unit rowhouse. Neighbors wishing to remain unidentified mentioned seeing the woman, accompanied by two other men in the area of the shooting prior to the incident taking place. The group had the appearance of being acquaintances. Described as Black, between the ages of 18-21, they were not recognized as being residents of the area.
As the woman sat on the steps in front of a house, one of the men was heard talking loudly on a cell phone, appearing to be in some sort of argument or dispute. Moments later, gunfire was heard as the two men vanished and the woman was left dying on the ground.
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| Death happened here. Blood of shooting left victim on sidewalk. |
While Baltimore Police homicide detectives investigated, the crowd of onlookers grew. Many said they had not heard about the man shot and killed the day prior, only a few blocks away.
The incident was the first of two overnight incidents involving women being shot, in addition to a man shot in the face in an unrelated incident. Normally representing a small percentage of shooting victims in the city, a recent surge of females victims, including several teenagers, may be signaling a shift or expansion of the typical profile of a Baltimore murder victim.
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