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Frustrated Baltimore officials pleaded on Sunday with residents to come forward with information about a shooting at a crowded neighborhood block party that left two people dead and 28 others wounded, many of them teenagers.
A motive for the shooting, which was reported at 12:30 a.m. in Baltimore’s southern neighborhood of Brooklyn, was unclear, but authorities said there was more than one assailant. It was unclear whether the victims were targeted.
Officials said an 18-year-old woman, Aaliyah Gonzales, was dead at the scene of the shooting, which happened at Brooklyn Homes, a public housing complex. A 20-year-old man, Kylis Fagbemi, was later pronounced dead at a hospital, police said.
The victims were between 13 and 32 years old, the city’s acting police commissioner, Col. Richard Worley, said at a news conference Sunday afternoon.
He said that police were still confirming the ages of all of the victims, but that more than a dozen of them were younger than 18. By Sunday afternoon, all but nine of the victims had been discharged from hospitals.
At the news conference, Brandon Scott, the city’s mayor, called the shooting a “reckless, cowardly act.” He cited footage of the shooting, which surfaced on social media, and criticized adults in the community who did not intervene.
He called for a “better level of accountability” and said the community should not condone “some grown man filming some young person pull out a gun.
