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The Dripby Mark Reutter8:25 amMay 26, 20150

Memorial Day weekend toll: 9 dead, at least 20 wounded

Shootings reported across the city as gun violence continues to take its toll

Above: Baltimore crime scene.

Nine people were killed and at least 20 were wounded as gun violence continued to rack Baltimore over the Memorial Day weekend.

The last reported shooting over the weekend took place at 1400 North Fulton Avenue, a well-known crime hot spot. An adult male was shot multiple times in the torso about 11:30 p.m. Monday. There is no report from police on his medical condition.

Also last night, a nine-year-old boy was shot in the leg in the Rosemont section of West Baltimore. Police said the boy was an “unintentional victim” of the shooting of an adult male on the 2900 block of Arunah Avenue. Both were taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

All told between Friday and Monday nights, six of the city’s nine police districts saw homicides. Only the Southeastern and Northwestern districts were spared from the violence, which was concentrated in West Baltimore. Three of the homicides were in the Southwest Police District.

After an outbreak of five homicides in 16 hours on Friday and Saturday, there was a fatal shooting mid-day Sunday on Ducatel Street in Reservoir Hill, according to police.

Charles Jackson, 32, was shot multiple times in the abdomen at 11:30 a.m., according to police. He died later in an area hospital.

At 12:30 a.m. Monday, a 21-year-old man was found by police shot inside a car on the 800 block of West Fayette Street in the Western District.

The victim, Shaquil Hinton, died two hours later at an area hospital. Police also found a woman lying on the street near the car, shot in the back. She is listed in stable condition.

Triple Shooting in Northeast

Early on Monday morning, police were notified of gunfire in the Woodbourne-McCabe neighborhood of Northeast Baltimore. They found 23-year-old Charles Dobbins lying in the 5300 block of St. Georges Avenue, shot in the chest and leg. He died later of his wounds.

While investigating the shooting, police determined that two other men had been wounded in the same incident and had checked themselves into nearby hospitals. One was shot in the arm, while the other had a graze wound to the head, according to police.

Also on Monday morning, police found a man with a head wound on the 500 block of East 21st Street. He later died at an area hospital – the ninth homicide victim in Baltimore over the weekend.

The carnage caps a month of violence following Freddie Gray’s death while in police custody and the April 27 riot that broke out on the day of Gray’s funeral.

So far in May, there have been 34 homicides (excluding Gray, who was counted as a homicide in police statistics this month).

In 2015, the number of people killed in Baltimore has climbed 40% above the number in 2014, while shootings have spiked by more than 60%. For more analysis.

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