{"id":155580,"date":"2026-04-02T18:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155580\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T18:14:06","slug":"baltimore-police-shooting-reported-on-pennsylvania-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155580\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore police shooting reported on Pennsylvania avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA police shooting is under investigation Thursday on Pennsylvania Avenue.Witnesses told WBAL-TV 11 News that a city police officer shot someone. WBAL-TV 11 News observed a large police presence in the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue near the Avenue Market. Pennsylvania Avenue is closed between Laurens and Pitcher streets.Shortly after 1 p.m., the Maryland Transit Administration issued a detour alert for the CityLink Lime bus route at Pennsylvania Avenue and Presstman Street until 9 p.m.This is a developing report.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBALTIMORE \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A police shooting is under investigation Thursday on Pennsylvania Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told WBAL-TV 11 News that a city police officer shot someone. <\/p>\n<p>WBAL-TV 11 News observed a large police presence in the 1700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue near the Avenue Market. Pennsylvania Avenue is closed between Laurens and Pitcher streets.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 1 p.m., the Maryland Transit Administration issued a detour alert for the CityLink Lime bus route at Pennsylvania Avenue and Presstman Street until 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing report.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Heavy police presence and road closures along Pennsylvania Avenue between Laurens and Pitcher Street. Witnesses tell us a Baltimore Police officer shot someone. Police are expected hold a press conference soon. Stay with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbaltv11?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@wbaltv11<\/a> for updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ShXpfsQzcv\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ShXpfsQzcv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breana Ross (@breanarossWBAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/breanarossWBAL\/status\/2039759766361112732?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 2, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police shooting is under investigation Thursday on Pennsylvania Avenue.Witnesses told WBAL-TV 11 News that a city police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70519,8936,45242,70506,70507,70508,70510,70509,2586,70515,31,70518,70514,26102,4664,45250,70517,139,4800,28,8932,30,29,206,623,70516,87,109,45251,70513,70511,70512],"class_list":{"0":"post-155580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-avenue-market","9":"tag-baltimore","10":"tag-baltimore-news","11":"tag-baltimore-police","12":"tag-baltimore-police-department","13":"tag-baltimore-police-department-western-district","14":"tag-baltimore-police-shooting","15":"tag-baltimore-police-western-district","16":"tag-block","17":"tag-citylink-lime-bus-route","18":"tag-crime","19":"tag-detour-alert","20":"tag-investigation-thursday","21":"tag-large-police-presence","22":"tag-maryland","23":"tag-maryland-news","24":"tag-maryland-transit-administration","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-p-m","27":"tag-pennsylvania","28":"tag-pennsylvania-avenue","29":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","30":"tag-pennsylvania-news","31":"tag-police","32":"tag-police-shooting","33":"tag-presstman-street","34":"tag-report","35":"tag-violence","36":"tag-wbal-news","37":"tag-wbal-tv","38":"tag-western-district","39":"tag-western-district-shooting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}