BALTIMORE — The city of Baltimore has marked its first homicides of 2017.
The Baltimore Sun reports (https://bsun.md/2iXh087) two men were shot and killed Sunday in separate incidents.
In one, a 20-year-old man was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body and pronounced dead at the scene.
In the other, an officer heard gunshots and found a victim inside a car. The man was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries.
Baltimore recorded 318 homicides in 2016. The newspaper reports that is the second year in a row, and only the second time since the 1990s, that the city surpassed 300 homicides.
On Sunday, a dozens of people gathered on a street corner to recite the names of the victims in what’s become an annual gathering.
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