One Dead, 2 Wounded In Govans

Police Know Of No Motive In Shootings On Radnor Ave.

Three men were shot, one fatally, Thursday night on a street in the Govans community, police said. Two of the victims were found on the street, and the third was driven by someone to a city fire station more than a mile away, where he was given first aid before being taken to a hospital. Their names were not available.

Police said no arrest had been made and know of no motive for the triple shooting.

Agent Donny Moses, a city police spokesman, said Northern District police responding to shots fired in the 500 block of Radnor Ave. about 9 p.m. found one man lying next to a utility pole near a white pickup truck who had been shot in the head. Across the street and near a red pickup truck, they found a second victim bleeding from wounds to the right arm and left leg. Those men were taken by city Fire Department ambulances to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where one man, 38, died a short time later. The other man's condition was not available.

A short time later, police said, a man who had been shot in the left leg arrived at the fire station at The Alameda and East Cold Spring Lane in a Buick Park Avenue riddled with bullet holes. That man, 19, was also taken by ambulance to Hopkins. Police said he told them he had been shot on Radnor Avenue while attempting to flee. His condition was not known.

Moses said several shell casings were found midway down Radnor Avenue, but was unable to say if the victims were shot there or while fleeing.

Metro Crime Stoppers at 410-276-8888 is offering a reward of up to$2,000 for information leading to an arrest and an indictment.