After 10-Month-Old Shot, Homicide Unit Canvasses Northwest Baltimore Neighborhood

BALTIMORE, MD — Police canvassed an area in northwest Baltimore Monday after a triple shooting over the weekend left one man dead and two others — including a 10-month-old — injured.

Members of the homicide unit saturated the area of Keyworth at Towanda avenues at 1 p.m. on Monday in hopes of gleaning information about the deadly incident, according to the Baltimore Police Department.

The shootings occurred around 3 p.m. on Saturday in the 2800 block of Keyworth Avenue, where a man and the baby were sitting on a porch when three people walked up to them and opened fire in their direction, shooting the man in the chest and the baby in the leg, police said.

Derrick Hickman, 37, was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased, according to officials. The 10-month-old had an injury to the leg that was not believed to be life-threatening.

As the suspects were leaving, they noticed a potential witness in a vehicle and shot her in the shoulder, police said. The woman sustained a graze wound believed to be non-life-threatening.

Hickman's father said he and his son had been talking on the porch when the suspects — believed to be two men and a woman — started shooting at them, prompting the father to hide behind a treadmill and Hickman to run for cover inside, according to The Baltimore Sun, which reported the baby was Hickman's stepson.

Police are reportedly trying to find a motive as well as identify the suspects.

Anyone with information or surveillance tape may contact Baltimore homicide detectives at 410-396-2100. Those would like to remain anonymous may call the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-866-7LOCKUP.

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