patrol At our about 8:13 PM tonight Baltimore police were called to the 300
block of 23rd Street for *** shooting incident. When officers arrived, they
discovered two victims inside of *** vehicle that had been parked in the
block. What we know right now is that The perpetrator's vehicle occupied by
at least two individuals, uh, drove into the block, pulled up next to the
victim, the victim's vehicle, right as it parked in this block. Um, one person
was firing out of the passenger window into the victim's vehicle while we
believe the driver of the perpetrator vehicle exited and also fired into the
victim's vehicle. Both subjects firing multiple shots in to that vehicle
striking both the driver and passenger.
The driver was *** male. The passenger was *** female and both were taken to
Hopkins Hospital where the the male victim has been pronounced and has to
come to his injuries. The female victim, what we know right now is in grave
condition,
what we also know right now is that the female victim was pregnant and her baby
was successfully delivered
due to an emergency delivery and that baby is in critical condition as well.
But as *** result of the delivery and not the shooting, that's the
information that we have right now. And so this was *** very, very violent
brazen Assault on two individuals. 3 individuals rather in this block
tonight and once again, we're standing here talking about the brazenness, the
cowardice, the deliberate
attempt to harm and kill individuals with gun violence, the prevalence of
guns and people's willingness to use them and the consequences that they
obviously do not fear. And we are here to Number one offer condolences for the
loss of life. But to tell this community that we will do everything
within our power to find who did this, catch them and hold them accountable.
What we need right now is for anybody who knows what happened, Whether you
heard it or whether you saw it to please contact police right away Or you
can do it anonymously by calling crimestoppers at 18667. Lock up.
At this time I'm going to turn it over to director Jackson and then after that,
we'll hear from my man.
Thank you. Mr. Commissioner
needless to say these events
are tragic.
They are unnecessary. They are unwelcome in our neighborhoods. The
Mayor's office of neighborhood safety and engagement is mobilizing in two
ways we are dispatching our victim services team to johns Hopkins as we
speak to provide the family supports that they need in this moment as they
look to care for *** new life that just made its way onto this earth and for
*** mother who needs support Now, more than ever. In addition to that will be
mobilizing mental health supports tomorrow for this community, given what
we know are traumatic events that neighbors just down the block from us
are still dealing with in these moments. Mr Mayor, I'll turn it over to you.
Thank you. Director. Thank you Commissioner first and foremost. Uh, we
offer condolences and thoughts and prayers for the loss of life here today,
praying and asking the entire city to pray, uh, that the mother makes it
through. But also that this baby, uh, that was brought into this world.
Unfortunately, after an act of violence that this baby, it actually makes it.
And I could sit here tonight and Tanya's staying here tonight and tell
you *** whole bunch of things. But what we really need to focus on the fact
that something caused this to happen. And to be quite honest and frank, I
don't really give *** ship what the conflict was. We cannot have folks
shooting at pregnant women in our city. So what we have to do as *** community
is turn our community inside out. We're gonna be here to make sure that we're
looking for this person, individuals that people that conducted this, this
senseless act of violence. But we need everybody to do that. We need everybody
to check themselves. The people around me, someone knows who did this. Someone
knows who did this to *** pregnant woman and someone else. *** baby is
being brought into the world after their mother is shot in some life.
Support if that doesn't change your mind about what's happening in your
community or check the people around you. I don't know what will we are
gonna go out and we're gonna find these people because we will not allow and
tolerate this kind of thing to continue to happen in our city. But we need our
community to feel the same way. I want you to feel that pain in your belly
when you think about *** pregnant woman being shot and think about it. That was
your mother or your sister or your grandmother or whoever in your family.
Because this is the kind of thing that we have to change and challenge
ourselves to be better. Thank you.
This time. We'll take *** few questions. Any description of the suspect or
suspects at this time, The information that we have is that there were two
suspects in *** vehicle. We do not have *** description yet of that vehicle or
of either of those two individuals, detectives are working right now to
locate evidence to help us identify them. But we sure could use the help of
anyone who would have known who those individuals were and what kind of
vehicle was used. What's the relationship,
pregnant woman or were they? It is unknown at this time. As *** matter of
fact, we do not even have an identity on the mail as of this moment. So,
detectives are working to investigate and find the answers to those questions
as we speak. Live in this area. Those are questions we're asking to find the
answers as we speak. I don't know
the motive was they wanted to kill them.
That is that is that is pretty apparent to all of us. Um, why we're working to
find that out and why it doesn't matter. That's the reality. Why it doesn't
matter. Why doesn't matter the fact that someone's dead, *** pregnant woman
was shot, baby had to be delivered. What matters is that we go after these
folks that we find these folks and that's the only thing that's gonna
matter. That's the only thing that matters to that family. It's the only
thing that matters community. That's the only thing that matters in the city
and should matter to all of us.
The tube in the they just said they were sitting in their car. Apparently
the car had just put in park and while it was pulling in and parked within
moments perpetrator vehicle apparently pulled next to it. That's when the
firing began. Next question.
All right. Thank you All.
Mm hmm.