East Baltimore

Three men were shot at about 6:40 p.m. Sunday at East 20th Street and Kennedy Avenue in East Baltimore, according to Baltimore City police. The cause of the shooting and the names of the victims were not known. One man was shot in the torso, a second in the leg and a third in his leg and stomach, police said. All men are expected to survive. A fourth man was shot in the arm and the chest at 5:30 p.m., in a robbery at a store in the 300 block of N. Warwick St. near Warwick and Franklin Streets in south Baltimore.

I remember the faded photograph my aunt kept in a place of honor in her home. My grandfather was 5, sitting atop a pony at the corner of North Patterson Park and Ashland avenues. He wore a petticoat and cap. It was about 1925. I remember the stories about "Pop" Schoppert, my grandfather's father, making the trip from West Virginia to Baltimore to seek a better life. The trunk with which he traveled sits in the basement of my parents' house. I remember, as a child, examining it, imagining that journey.

A man was shot in East Baltimore shortly after midnight Saturday, according to police. Officers in the 2900 block of E. Monument St. heard gunfire and a the same time an emergency call came in reporting a shooting in the 2700 block of E. Chase Street in the city's Biddle Street neighborhood, according to police. Officers found the victim, who has not been identified, inside a home suffering a single gun shot wound to the right shoulder and medics took him to a local hospital, police said.

An early morning dwelling fire in the 1400 block of Bonsal Street in East Baltimore injured two firefighters. Captain Roman Clarke said that one firefighter was being treated at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and that other had been released. He said the home was occupied and that its residents were uninjured. He said the call came in at 1:40 a.m. Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts

A man was seriously injured when he was stabbed in the chest in East Baltimore on Saturday night, police said. The man, about whom police have not released any other information, was stabbed in the 2000 block of Cliftwood Avenue in the South Clifton Park neighborhood shortly before 10 p.m., police said. Police said the man's condition was stable at a hospital Sunday afternoon but did not immediately have more specific information about his status. District detectives were investigating a motive for the attack and a suspect, police said.