A 24-year-old man is dead and two other men are recovering after a shooting sent three victims to the hospital in Baltimore's Franklintown area on Monday afternoon. Police say they have not identified any suspects, and homicide detectives are still piecing together what happened on a quiet residential block in Northwest Baltimore.
Officers were called to the 5200 block of Muth Avenue just before 4:30 p.m. Monday, according to The Baltimore Banner. Three men were found with gunshot wounds and rushed to a hospital, where, despite life-saving efforts, the 24-year-old victim died, as reported by FOX Baltimore. The other two men, ages 21 and 39, were listed in stable condition.
Baltimore police said one person was killed in the triple shooting in the Franklintown area, according to CBS News. Homicide detectives are investigating, and officers are still looking for the shooters, according to a separate account from WMAR-2 News.
Part of a Violent Stretch Across the City
Monday's shooting adds to what the Banner describes as a string of multi-victim shootings in Baltimore this month. The night before, five people were shot at a BP gas station in the 2800 block of Edmondson Avenue, and a 34-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man died, per the same account. Separately, police were investigating a triple shooting at a liquor store in northwest Baltimore Sunday night, where two women were hospitalized in stable condition and a 27-year-old man later walked into a nearby hospital seeking treatment for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, FOX Baltimore reported.
Earlier this month, four people, including two teenagers, were shot in the 3500 block of East Lombard Street, and two men died, the Banner noted. And on Oct. 3, 12-year-old Khloe Ishway was fatally shot and four other people were injured near Leon Day Park in Southwest Baltimore, according to the outlet's reporting.
Mixed Signals on the City's Crime Trend
The Baltimore Sun reports that the decline in homicides that began in 2023 has slowed this year, even as nonfatal shootings are nearly matching 2025's pace. City officials have offered a different snapshot: a statement attributed to Mayor Brandon M. Scott said homicides were down 15.3 percent and nonfatal shootings were down 4.2 percent as of October 1, 2026, compared with the same point the previous year, according to a release from Baltimore City government.
CBS News Baltimore reported police data showing 97 homicides citywide as of the Monday referenced in its report, compared with 105 at the same point the previous year, alongside 250 nonfatal shootings compared with 247 a year earlier. Those figures differ from the percentages cited in the mayor's statement; the mayor's figures are as of October 1, while CBS's are as of October 19, and it is not clear whether the two counts reflect the same underlying datasets.
No suspect descriptions or arrests had been announced as of Monday night. Anyone with information on the Franklintown shooting is encouraged to contact Baltimore homicide detectives as the investigation continues.
