Sunday, June 13, 2021
Robert Lang, WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5
Baltimore Metropolis police mentioned they’re investigating a “discharging,” not a capturing, within the 1600 block of Aliceanna Avenue in Fells Level at round 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
Police mentioned a number of automobiles have been broken within the block on account of gunfire.
One automobile was occupied and an individual contained in the automobile suffered a laceration to the top and went to a hospital.
Police mentioned docs discovered the sufferer was not shot however did undergo a laceration.
The incident occurred throughout a weekend of heightened safety within the neighborhood stuffed with bars and eating places that’s fashionable with each locals and vacationers.
The response adopted a violent weekend final week, the place three folks have been shot.
A minimum of one enterprise proprietor within the neighborhood told WBAL NewsRadio on Friday, the response was extreme.
Nick Johnson, proprietor of Su Casa Furnishings, mentioned he believes the police command trailer was parked in entrance of his retailer, in “retaliation” for a letter he and different enterprise house owners despatched metropolis leaders final week promising to place their tax funds in escrow except town addressed crime and disorderly conduct in Fells Level.
Maryland State Police operated a sobriety checkpoint Friday and Saturday nights on Boston Avenue that connects Fells Level and Canton.
Troopers report between 9 p.m. Saturday and three a.m. Sunday seven impaired drivers have been arrested together with one other particular person wished on a warrant.
Over two nights 14 folks have been arrested for DUI, one for possession of a weapon and one on an excellent warrant.
Baltimore Metropolis police and the Maryland Transportation Authority Police helped function the checkpoint.
It isn’t recognized if the checkpoint can be working subsequent weekend.
At a digital city corridor on Thursday evening, Deputy Mayor for Public Security Sunny Schnitzer advised residents and enterprise house owners that this weekend’s response could be a “one and accomplished response,” however could be revised for future weekends
The response included 9 extra metropolis law enforcement officials patrolling the neighborhood through the weekend together with sheriff’s deputies and college law enforcement officials.
Extra trash pickups have been additionally going down through the weekend.
