BALTIMORE (AP) - Two recent homicides capped a violent one-week stretch in Baltimore and puts the city slightly ahead of the number of slayings at the same time last year, police said.
Two people were killed Thursday night, pushing the number of homicides in 2020 to 103, The Baltimore Sun reported on Friday. In the last seven days, the city has recorded 14 homicides, according to police.
Police responded late Thursday to the 2500 block of East Biddle Street and found Shawanna Spann, 28, suffering from a gunshot wound to her head. She was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and later pronounced dead, police said.
About an hour later, police arrived in the 2100 block of Aiken Street in East Baltimore, where an unidentified man had been shot and was unresponsive. He also was transported to a local hospital, where he died, according to police.
On Friday, Baltimore police identified another homicide victim as David Spangler, 55, who was homeless and killed in the 1900 block of McHenry Street on May 5.
This year’s deaths follows the pace in 2019, when Baltimore recorded a record 348 homicides, the second-highest homicide count after 1993, which registered 353 killings when the city’s population was 125,000 higher.
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