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A Baltimore policeman was shot dead Sunday night in the west of the city, police said.
The officer was taken to the University of Maryland Trauma Center and the identity and condition of the officer were not released by the police. The shooting was reported just before 18:30. near Lexington Street and Fremont Avenue in the Poppleton neighborhood.
According to the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3, the police officers' union of the city, the officer is in stable condition without mortal wounds. Gene Ryan, union president, visited the injured policeman at the hospital, the union tweeted.
"We will pray for a speedy recovery for our brother," the union said.
The residents said they heard dozens of shots.
"It was like a war here," said one man. "I was watching the football game and I heard bop bop bop bop bop bop. I started asking myself when is it going to stop?
Another neighbor, Montique Gross, 57, said he heard about 20 shots before the sirens sounded.
He leaned over the railing of his porch on Vine Street and looked at the police cars parked in the middle of his street, the flashing blue and red sirens.
There's always something serious going on in the block where the shots were fired, Gross said.
Drug addicts run out of money on Martin Luther King Boulevard, then go to the neighborhood to buy drugs, and the violence spreads, he says. He worries about his wife when she walks from the first step of their house up to her car, that someone attacks her and steals her.
"I'm worried," he said. "It's a bad neighborhood."
East of the police scene on Vine Street, 38-year-old Tenise Dry filmed the scene on her phone. She plans to share the video on her Instagram story. She wants to be a journalist.
The neighborhood has experienced recent violence.
A man came to the hospital Tuesday last week with a stomach injury after a shootout in the 800 block of Vine Street, one of five people shooting in the city that day. The victim, whose police did not release the name, was shot dead by an unidentified suspect, officials said.
Mayor Catherine E. Pugh went to Shock Trauma with police officials to check on the officer, said his spokesman, James Bentley. He declined to comment further, referring questions to the police department.
No other details were immediately available. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-866-7LOCKUP.
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