Triple shooting leaves woman dead in Southwest Baltimore

BALTIMORE, Md. -  

Bullets pierced the window of one home, a neighbor’s home two doors down and yet another neighbor’s car just down the street in the 500 block of Eastlynne Avenue just after 11pm Thursday.

"When we arrived we found a 30-year old female in the street,” said Baltimore City Police Det. Jeremy Silbert, “She was suffering from multiple gun shot wounds to her back. She was transported to a local hospital where she later died from her injuries."

In addition to 30-year old Datea Scott-Smith, bullets struck a 22-year old man in the neck and a young boy in the hand.

He’s just 14.

On a street police have become quite familiar with as an open-air drug market, the suspected motive for the shooting should come as no surprise.

"We believe that the shooting may be over a drug dispute, which occurred in the block,” said Det. Silbert, “However, this information is very preliminary. Detectives have been working through the night on this case, and we hope to have some information later on."

Residents in the block will tell you they heard gunfire, that drug dealers routinely work their street and that they fear going out at night, but they wouldn’t tell us that on camera, and with a back drop of newly bullet-riddled homes and cars, who could really blame them?

Scott-Smith’s murder is the 147th in Baltimore this year.

That’s two less than at this same point last year.