July Breaks 2024 Homicide Record

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July brought both record-breaking highs and lows of violent crime to Baltimore. The city experienced the highest number of homicides per month and the lowest number of non-fatal shootings per month of 2024 so far in July.

Baltimore Witness data sourced from Baltimore Police Department press releases reveals that there were 26 homicides throughout the city in July, nine more than June’s previous 2024 monthly high of 17. The data also indicates that the city experienced 21 non-fatal shootings, significantly down from 30 in June and less than the former monthly low of 26 in May.

The Western District led the city in homicides at eight, including the death of 14-year-old Jasper Davis and injury of another after a shooting at the Mondawmin Metro Center, on the 2300 block of Liberty Heights Avenue, for which a juvenile has been arrested. July is the second month in a row that the Western District has had the highest concentration of homicides in Baltimore.

Homicide numbers in the Eastern District were half of the Western District’s citywide high, with four homicides, marking the second-highest number of homicides per district in July. There were three homicides each in both the Central and Northwestern districts, including the fatal shooting of 22-year-old Trey Sean Sanders on the 1000 block of North Eden Street.

The Northeastern and Southwestern districts all experienced two homicides each, while the Southwestern District had three. Among the victims were a 12-year-old girl shot at a residence on the 500 block of North Kenwood Avenue in the Southwest District and a 14-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed after a verbal altercation on a MTA bus on the 4200 block of Frankford Avenue in the Northeast District.

There was only one homicide in the Northern district, in a triple shooting which claimed the life of 30-year-old Alan Grant and additionally injured a 31-year-old male and a 27-year old female on the 400 block of Loyola Northway.

The Southern District was the only district to experience no homicides in the month of July, a low that it has not reached since March 2024.

More than a quarter of July’s yearly low of 21 non-fatal shootings occurred in the Western District, which had six non-fatal shootings, including a triple shooting on the 1700 block of McCulloh Street. The Southwestern District experienced five non-fatal shootings, one of which injured a 14-year-old male in an alley on the 1800 block of West Saratoga Street.

The Eastern District experienced three non-fatal shootings, and the Northern and Southern districts both experienced two non-fatal shootings, including a 26-year-old man shot inside a home on the 1200 block of Sargeant Street.

There was one non-fatal shooting in each the Central and the Northwestern districts.

The Northeastern and Southeastern districts were the only districts to experience no non-fatal shootings in July.