BALTIMORE _ A Baltimore homicide detective was shot near a notoriously-violent intersection in West Baltimore on Wednesday, according to a police source familiar with the investigation.
The officer was not immediately identified, nor was a condition given. The police department said only that a "police-involved" shooting had occurred in the 900 block of Bennett Place, in the city's Harlem Park neighborhood, about 4:30 p.m.
The shooting was the second of a law enforcement officer in West Baltimore this month.
An off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer, Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., 40, who lived in Baltimore, was fatally shot on Nov. 4.
After Wednesday's shooting, police set up a wide perimeter and officers could be seen taking cover around corners. The police helicopter, Foxtrot, swirled low, using its loudspeaker to tell people to go inside their homes.
The location, just northwest of Route 40 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is a particularly violent one. More than a dozen people have been shot or killed there in recent years.
Among other incidents, two people were shot near the corner, one of them fatally, on July 18, and three people were killed in a single incident in December. After a particularly violent spate in 2013, police barricaded the block and stationed an officer there around the clock.
