Police were called to the 1600 block of Thames Street in Fells Point after midnight Sunday. They found a man with multiple gunshot wounds, he was taken to the hospital.
Hours later overnight police were called back to the neighborhood for more shooting victims, two men were found shot in the 600 block of South Broadway. One man was shot in the leg the other in the stomach, both were also taken to the hospital.
The bloodshed was concentrated into an especially difficult weekend for the District but the violence was far more widespread. In total officers responded to eight shootings and one killing.
It's capped off a month that has seen homicides rise with the heat index, averaging more than one dead a day.
Just 26 days into the month, 35 people have been murdered.
"We’re on a horrific trajectory," said Pastor Cleveland Mason.
Pastor Cleveland Mason is a faith and community leader who says he doesn't see killers fearing consequences but his people do.
He says he hears from far too many paralyzed by fear.
"Afraid to come outside, afraid to be on their own front porch, life for many of us has become like incarceration," he said.
There's a culture of killing he believes springs from life that's been devalued in Baltimore as he pleads for us all not to accept it.
"We cannot settle for becoming desensitized for the violence that’s taking place in the city, if we give into it, there will only be more of it and there will be no effort to stop it," he said.