Video shows Baltimore triple shooting that killed teacher, injured man and 11-year-old
BALTIMORE -- A security camera obtained by WJZ captured a triple shooting that killed a teacher and injured a man and an 11-year-old girl in a vehicle Wednesday evening in North Baltimore.
Officers responded around 5:30 p.m. for a reported shooting in the 5400 block of York Road where a 52-year-old woman, identified as Anntoinette Tunstall Jennings, was found suffering from gunshot wounds inside a vehicle. The PreK paraeducator at Waverly Elementary School was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said a 29-year-old man and an 11-year-old girl were also found in the vehicle suffering from gunshot wounds. They are expected to survive. Family also said a 4-year-old child was in the car.
"If you walk up to a car and you start shooting, you know that's not random," Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said. "You are a coward. We have to get these folks off the street."
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call police at 410-396-2100 or the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
Fight at a basketball game
While there were no investigative updates on a motive Thursday, Baltimore City Public Schools alerted families to a fight that happened at a basketball game nearby.
"At the end of a basketball game that The Tunbridge School was hosting between The Belair-Edison School and The Seed School, an altercation occurred in the gymnasium. The altercation was immediately managed by staff," the letter reads.
Tunbridge Public Charter School is less than a five-minute walk from the shooting.
The letter said both teams were dismissed from the school separately and left the school on their respective buses.
Community reacts to shooting
Community members said they are tired of the violence.
One man, who wanted to remain anonymous, saw the aftermath of the shooting after he got off from work.
He said it's gut-wrenching, especially with a child involved, but he's become numb to it all.
"We go through a lot of stuff, especially as a community. It comes to a certain point in time, it just has to stop," he said.
He wants city leaders to step up and do more to curb the violence.
"Just help the streets, we got people that want a job," he said. "If they have a job and they can get money...there wouldn't be no killings."
Recent Baltimore homicides
Baltimore City has seen 10 homicides so far in 2025, as of Jan. 22. There have also been at least 17 non-fatal shootings in January.
Three of those homicides happened on Sunday, Jan. 19.
Just after midnight on Jan. 19, officers responded to E. Baltimore Street for an unresponsive man with signs of trauma who later died at a hospital. Later that morning, a 43-year-old man was killed in a double shooting on Washburn Avenue, and that evening, a man was killed and two were injured in a triple shooting on Liberty Heights Avenue.
Baltimore police said there was a 23% decline in murders in 2024, which followed a nearly 20% reduction in 2023. The police department said non-fatal shootings were down 44% and the city saw a 74% reduction in youth gun violence victims.
According to Baltimore's 2024 end-of-year crime report, police achieved clearance rates above the national average for major crimes, including homicides (68%), non-fatal shootings (44%), robbery (37%), and aggravated assaults (69%) in 2024.
