BALTIMORE (AP) – Three teenagers were wounded in a shooting outside a west Baltimore high school around the time classes were starting, officials said.
The shooting adds to a recent uptick in youth violence plaguing the city this year, including several instances of Baltimore public school students being shot on or near high school campuses. That trend has persisted even as gun violence overall has declined over the past several months.
The victims in the shooting at Carver Vocational Technical High School all received non-life threatening injuries, Baltimore Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Jones said during a news conference at the scene.
“There was a possible fray and then there was the discharge of a weapon,” Jones said.
In the aftermath of the shooting, frantic parents gathered outside the school.
Many commiserated with each other while waiting for their children to be dismissed, saying the trauma of yet another shooting involving Baltimore youth was too much. School was let out early at 10.30am.
“We’re just dumbfounded right now,” said Shameka White, who had gotten her son dismissed from school but was still waiting for her younger sister. “It’s a waiting game.”
White said school administrators were unable to answer questions about whether her sister was inside the building.
