Police: Dozens shot, 8 killed in separate shootings in Baltimore

Associated Press

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 | 8:56 a.m.

BALTIMORE — Baltimore city police said dozens of people have been shot and at least eight killed in a series of separate weekend shootings.

WBAL-TV reports that a man and woman were shot in a car about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Both were taken to the hospital, where the man died.

Officers responded to another report of a shooting about 1:43 a.m. Monday, and a man from that shooting died at a hospital.

Another man was fatally shot Sunday afternoon. None of those shooting victims has been identified.

Police say at least five more shooting deaths have been reported since Friday as well as at least 19 shooting injuries.

The Baltimore Sun reports that 35 people have been killed so far in May, making it the deadliest month in Baltimore since December 1999.