The number of children killed in Baltimore during the first half of 2025 has dropped to the lowest level in over 10 years, just two death, reflecting a broader trend of declining violence in the city.
The significant drop comes amid ongoing efforts to treat gun violence as a public health crisis. Both city and state officials have funneled resources into intervention and prevention programs aimed at steering young people away from violence before it starts.
Historically, child victims, those ages 0 to 17, have represented only a small share of the city’s overall homicide and nonfatal shooting counts, according to Baltimore Police Department. While the number of youth homicides during the first half of each year has remained under 10 for more than a decade, 2025’s count of just two is the lowest since at least 2015, the earliest year with reliable data…