BALTIMORE — Homicide detectives began investigating a grisly crime in Baltimore’s Hollins Market neighborhood on Tuesday morning—the third of its kind within the past four months.
Officers on patrol in the southwestern part of the city were sent to a vacant building in the 1100 block of West Baltimore Street after someone reported finding an unresponsive man inside of it, according to authorities.
They noticed that the man had sustained traumatic injuries. He was pronounced dead by medical personnel, police said.
It was at least the third time in recent months that homicide detectives found themselves looking for evidence of a traumatic death inside a vacant building.
Earlier this month, on Jan. 9, they found a man inside a vacant house in the 3600 block of Belair Road. That person was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to undergo an autopsy.