Mystery as toddler and woman are found shot dead in car in Baltimore

A WOMAN and toddler were found shot to death inside a car in a quiet neighborhood on Friday afternoon. Police were called to the scene in Baltimore after a report of an unconscious person just before noon, according to multiple reports. When officers arrived on the scene on the 200 block of Boswell Road, they […]

A WOMAN and toddler were found shot to death inside a car in a quiet neighborhood on Friday afternoon.

Police were called to the scene in Baltimore after a report of an unconscious person just before noon, according to multiple reports.

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When officers arrived on the scene on the 200 block of Boswell Road, they found the two victims inside a grey Hyundai.

Police have not released the victims’ names or any other information about the incident yet. Homicide detectives are investigating.

Locals news station WBAL-TV reported that at least four evidence markers could be seen where gun shells lay near the vehicle.

Baltimore’s Police Commissioner Michael Harrison was also on the scene, according to Fox 45 News.

By mid-afternoon, a handful of neighbors had gathered around the area. Several who were interviewed by local press expressed shock that something like this could happen in a normally quiet neighborhood.

“To see a woman shot and a baby in this neighborhood … this is a quiet neighborhood, hardly nothing happens in this neighborhood and I’ve been here for over 26 years,” a neighbor, Chester Pendergrass, told local press. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard of something like this.”

Another neighbor, Mikki Stanton, told reporters that she and her daughter heard gunshots around 2am Friday morning, but didn’t hear or see anything else until someone noticed the victims in the car and police arrived on the scene to investigate.

Stanton said the incident, and the fact that something so terrible could happen in their neighborhood, was “unnerving.”

“I have a small kid and if someone who would kill an infant, you have no heart, you have no heart – that’s what’s unnerving. I have kids of my own,” she said.