At least two people were killed and 28 wounded in a mass shooting at a street party early Sunday in the US city of Baltimore, police said.
Officials said more than one assailant opened fire at the celebration in Baltimore, a port city about an hour’s drive north of Washington which has one of the highest homicide rates in America.
The motive for the latest chapter in America’s gun violence crisis was not immediately known, and police appealed for anyone with information about who was responsible to come
forward.
One 18-year-old woman was found dead at the scene and a 20-year-old man died after being taken to hospital, a police statement said.
The victims range in age from 13 to 32, said acting police commissioner Richard Worley. As of Sunday afternoon, all but nine of the 28 wounded had been released from hospitals. Some remained in critical condition.
With more firearms than inhabitants, the United States has the highest rate of gun deaths of any developed country – at least 44,357 in 2022, including 24,090 suicides, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Sunday’s incident was at least the 338th mass shooting to occur so far this year, which defines the term as a gun-related incident in which four or more people are wounded or killed.
