BALTIMORE (AP) — Authorities say 12 people have been shot, five of them fatally, in eight separate weekend shootings in Baltimore.
The first of Saturday's shootings was reported at about 2:30 a.m. in the northeastern part of Baltimore and involved three female victims, one of whom died.
Four men died in separate shootings spread throughout the city over a period of several hours.
The city recorded 348 homicides last year, its fifth consecutive year with more than 300 murders and the most violent year ever on a per capita basis.
