Shooting on Heath Street

[Donnie Fair]

There was a shooting last night at Heath and Patapsco Streets.  The
investigation is still preliminary, but members of the neighborhood
association including myself are working closely with the police department
and will disclose information as quickly as we receive it.  

 

This shooting underscores the need and has accelerated the organization of a
community-based task force to focus on solutions to the problems on Heath
Street.  I have communicated to various city agencies, including the police
department, the law department and the liquor board among other city
agencies, the grass-roots organization already taking place with residents
in the vicinity of Heath Street.  

 

The SBIC Executive Board will discuss the formal creation of this task
force, to give full neighborhood support to the initiative started by the
community.  For more information about this, please attend the next
community meeting on April 1st or please contact me personally.  

 

The below article appeared in today's Sun paper about the incident:

 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/baltimore_city/bal-shooting0305,0,520
7635.story


Man gets shot, takes cab to convenience store


He hailed taxi, went to S. Baltimore 7-Eleven


By Gus G. Sentementes |Sun reporter

8:33 AM EST, March 5, 2008

 

A man who was shot several times in South Baltimore last night didn't call
an ambulance, but instead hailed a cab whose driver took him several blocks
to a 7-Eleven store, authorities said.

The shooting occurred shortly before 8 p.m. when police said a 32-year-old
man was wounded on the first block of E. Heath St.

Suffering from injuries to his neck, arm and body, police said the man
jumped into a nearby taxi and rode a half mile to the convenience store on
South Hanover and Hamburg streets.

Police said the man went inside the 7-Eleven and that someone inside called
for an ambulance. The victim was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and
treated for non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

Police said they had made no arrests and did not know whether the man had
paid his cab fare. The name of the taxi company was not immediately
available.



 

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