Police are seeking the identity of a person believed to be the suspect in a shooting that wounded a 15-year-old student Monday afternoon near two East Baltimore schools.
Police said Wednesday that they were seeking the person, whose features are muddled in blurry surveillance footage, in connection with the shooting near Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in East Baltimore. A spokesperson confirmed Thursday that the person, who is clad in a light-colored hoodie and black pants as they appear to be running, is a suspect in the shooting on North Caroline Street that set off a ShotSpotter alert at around 3:30 p.m. Monday.
Metro Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $4,000 for tips that lead to an arrest.
The shooting near the National Academy Foundation critically wounded a 15-year-old Dunbar High student around both schools’ dismissal times. The teen underwent emergency surgery and has been in stable condition since then.
On recorded radio dispatch calls from the shooting, Central District officers are heard scrambling to find the shooter while others render aid to the teen, who an officer said was shot three times — once in the neck. As the student is being taken to a hospital, officers are heard giving conflicting accounts of what the suspected shooter is wearing, and detectives ask for a metal detector and a canine to find evidence near the foundation, which was once Dunbar Middle School.