BALTIMORE -- A woman was killed, and an 11-year-old girl and a man were injured in a triple shooting Wednesday evening in North Baltimore, according to police.

Officers responded around 5:30 p.m. for a reported shooting in the 5400 block of York Road where a 52-year-old woman was found suffering from gunshot wounds inside a vehicle. She was pronounced dead on 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.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said it appears someone approached the vehicle and fired shots.

"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.

Recent Baltimore homicides

Baltimore City has seen nine 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.