Baltimore police search for 2 gunmen
Victim shot twice in Lauraville
Updated: 6:08 PM EDT Jun 28, 2012
Lauraville Shooting
Police are looking for two men who they say robbed and then shot a man as he was walking home from work in relatively quiet neighborhood in Baltimore City.The incident happened in the 4600 block of Harford Road in Lauraville on Thursday."It's a little disturbing. I mean, with our business we thrive off this neighborhood, and everybody's close-knit in this neighborhood and for something like that to happen it hurts the neighborhood, you know?" Steve Belschner said.Belschner is an employee of Zeke's Coffeehouse in Lauraville said it's a shock to learn that less than half a block away, a man was shot twice and robbed as he was coming home from work."All of the employees here, they live in the neighborhood, so for them not to be able to walk through the streets, and they have to worry about being shot and robbed, that's a big problem," Belschner said.Police said that just after midnight, two men approached the victim and pulled a gun. The victim tried to wrestle it away and he was shot once in the face and once in the neck.The two suspects then fled down Moraiva Road towards Belair Road."We really haven't had any problems from what I can remember and I've been here about 37 years," resident Elizabeth Hawkins said.People who live in the neighborhood behind where the shooting occurred tell 11 News Lauraville is relatively quiet, and violent crime is rare."I think this is outside of our neighborhood coming in and leaving. Those are the things that I think harm good neighborhoods is the outsiders that come in and disturb things," resident Charles Hawkins said.Others said they just hope the shooting is not a trend."I mean, just like anything, crime comes in waves, nothing like that has happened here for a long time, so it does surprise me," resident Jeffery Smith said.A representative from the Lauraville Improvement Association said the victim was an employee of a McDonald's on that part of Harford Road.Police said the victim's condition is improving, and at this point, descriptions of the attackers are too vague.Anyone with information should call police.
Police are looking for two men who they say robbed and then shot a man as he was walking home from work in relatively quiet neighborhood in Baltimore City.
The incident happened in the 4600 block of Harford Road in Lauraville on Thursday.
"It's a little disturbing. I mean, with our business we thrive off this neighborhood, and everybody's close-knit in this neighborhood and for something like that to happen it hurts the neighborhood, you know?" Steve Belschner said.
Belschner is an employee of Zeke's Coffeehouse in Lauraville said it's a shock to learn that less than half a block away, a man was shot twice and robbed as he was coming home from work.
"All of the employees here, they live in the neighborhood, so for them not to be able to walk through the streets, and they have to worry about being shot and robbed, that's a big problem," Belschner said.
Police said that just after midnight, two men approached the victim and pulled a gun. The victim tried to wrestle it away and he was shot once in the face and once in the neck.
The two suspects then fled down Moraiva Road towards Belair Road.
"We really haven't had any problems from what I can remember and I've been here about 37 years," resident Elizabeth Hawkins said.
People who live in the neighborhood behind where the shooting occurred tell 11 News Lauraville is relatively quiet, and violent crime is rare.
"I think this is outside of our neighborhood coming in and leaving. Those are the things that I think harm good neighborhoods is the outsiders that come in and disturb things," resident Charles Hawkins said.
Others said they just hope the shooting is not a trend.
"I mean, just like anything, crime comes in waves, nothing like that has happened here for a long time, so it does surprise me," resident Jeffery Smith said.
A representative from the Lauraville Improvement Association said the victim was an employee of a McDonald's on that part of Harford Road.
Police said the victim's condition is improving, and at this point, descriptions of the attackers are too vague.
Anyone with information should call police.