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Officers responded to Leon Day Park at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, where
the girl and a woman were found with gunshot wounds. Two men
also walked into area hospitals seeking treatment, Baltimore
Police Commissioner Richard Worley said at a news conference.
The girl was pronounced dead at a hospital. The three adults
suffered injuries that weren’t life-threatening, Worley said.
Two men involved in an argument believed to be over a parking
spot began shooting at each other, and the girl and the woman
were struck by bullets, Worley said. He said police were seeking
“at least” two suspects.
Worley said the girl wasn't a direct target of the shooting.
“What we know is there was some type of argument between two
cowards,” Worley said. “They both opened fire on each other. In
the crossfire, a 12-year-old little girl, who was probably down
there watching football, was shot and killed.”
Police were still processing the scene in the expansive park,
and Worley said it wasn't immediately known how many shots were
fired. He urged anyone who witnessed the shooting to contact
police.
“Two grown men got into an argument, and now a 12-year-old is
gone,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said at the news
conference. “We never should have to say something like that.
What happened out here today is one of the most disgusting
things I’ve ever seen in my life."
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