Three people were killed and one wounded late Tuesday in a shooting a few blocks from the Baltimore campus of the University of Maryland, according to a Baltimore law enforcement source.
In the incident, campus police said, two vans pulled to the side of the road. One person got out of each of the vans, and opened fire at a group of people on the corner.
Baltimore police said two of those shot were male and two were female.
The matter was under investigation early Wednesday.
According to the campus police, the shooting occurred just before 11 p.m. in the 900 block of W. Fayette Street, near Poppleton Street. The intersection is in a residential area of modest two- and three-story brick houses.
There was no immediate indication that any of the four were students at the campus, which provides graduate and professional education on a 71- acre campus in West Baltimore, near the Inner Harbor. During the academic year it enrolls more than 6,000 students.
It is in a neighborhood that lies about a half mile west of the campus, and separated from campus buildings by Martin Luther King Boulevard, a six lane thoroughfare with a wide median.
Homicides in Baltimore increased sharply in the weeks after rioting broke out in April following the death of Freddie Gray who was injured while in police custody.
However, there have been few if any recent occasions in which as many as three people were killed in a single incident.