After Tuesday night’s mass shooting in the Towson area, which killed one person and injured eight, the Baltimore area has experienced four mass shootings in 2024, according to the Gun Violence Archive database .
While that’s a drop from recent years, gun violence prevention experts lament that fewer people are aware of these incidents because of where they happened.
Three of the year’s mass shootings occurred in majority-Black Baltimore City zip codes, where at least 20% of people live in poverty, according to U.S. Census data. Several victims were Black men.
The city and its surrounding jurisdictions saw a dozen or more mass shootings each year from 2020 to 2023. That figure is lower this year mirroring homicides, which are down in both the city and the county this year.
Tuesday’s gunfire along Loch Raven Boulevard killed 26-year-old Charles Graham Jr. and injured eight other people, who were traveling inside a minivan when the shooting began. The vehicle subsequently flipped and caught fire, shocking residents in the busy Loch Raven Boulevard corridor. A t10th person was injured in the chaos, though not by gunfire.