Overview

• Baltimore police upgraded the Spaulding and Queensbury avenues mass shooting to a homicide investigation after a 38-year-old victim died, with five others wounded including a 5-year-old girl.
• The Archdiocese of Baltimore collected 410 firearms during a weekend buyback, raising its total haul since 2022 to 1,076 weapons.
• Chicago officers declared a 10-1 emergency on the West Side after a large unsanctioned block party promoted online coincided with at least three shootings, leaving two dead, many injured.
• A drive-by shooting in Bronzeville Monday afternoon wounded five, with no arrests reported in either city’s recent shootings.
• Authorities in Chicago offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the West Side homicide, as Baltimore investigators continue to solicit tips through Metro Crime Stoppers.