Baltimore block party shooting leaves two dead and 28 injured, including three critically hurt

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Baltimore on Sunday — killing two people, wounding 28 and leaving an extensive crime scene that marred the US holiday weekend, police said. Three of the wounded were in critical condition. Baltimore Police Department Acting Commissioner Richard Worley told reporters there were a total of 30 victims during a press conference at the scene.

The shooting took place just after 12:30 a.m. at a block party in the Brooklyn Homes area in the southern part of the city, Worley said. The shooting comes amid gatherings around the country leading up to the July Fourth holiday.

Elsewhere, a shooting in Kansas left seven people with gunshot wounds and two more victims hospitalized after being trampled as people rushed out of a nightclub early Sunday morning, police there said. All of the Baltimore victims were adults. Nine victims were transported by ambulance and 20 victims walked into area hospitals with injuries from the shooting, Worley said.

An 18-year-old woman was found dead at the scene and a 20-year-old man was pronounced dead at a hospital shortly after, police said. «I want those who are responsible to hear me, and hear me very clearly,» Mayor Brandon Scott said at the scene. «We will not stop until we find you, and we will find you.

Until then, I hope that every single breath you take, that you think about the lives that you took, think about the lives that you impacted here tonight.» No arrests were made immediately after the shooting. Scott asked anyone with information to come forward to assist investigators locate the «cowards» who were responsible for the shooting. Lakell Nelson, 54, said there had been several false alarms of people mistaking the sounds of fireworks for gunfire earlier in the night while she was at the