A 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in the Morrell Park neighborhood Saturday afternoon, police said.
Officers responded to a report of a gun discharging on the 2500 block of Washington Boulevard in the Southwest Baltimore neighborhood just before 3 p.m., according to a press release from the Baltimore Police Department.
The police found the 14-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead.
Police are now investigating the shooting as a homicide.
The incident happened amid heightened security in downtown Baltimore as President Donald Trump visited the city for the Army-Navy game.
It was the second shooting to happen in the area this week. Baltimore police found an unidentified man with a gunshot wound around the corner on the 1900 block of Harman Avenue on Wednesday around 5:15 p.m. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
As of Friday, there had been 128 homicides in Baltimore and 301 nonfatal shootings. Both rates have declined since last year.




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