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BALTIMORE AP 鈥?More than one person is suspected of opening fire during a holiday weekend block party in Baltimore that killed two and wounding 30 others, many of them under 18, police said Monday.The circumstances leading up to the shooting early Sunday remained under investigation after police spent hours combing a massive crime scene in the Brooklyn Homes area in the southern part of the city. Richard Worley, Baltimores acting police commissioner, told reporters there were a total of 30 victims, with more than a dozen believed to be minors.No arrests had been made by early Monday. Worley said it wasn ;t clear if the shooting was targeted or random, but he said police believe there were multiple shooters.READ MORE: Holiday weekend shooting in Baltimore leaves 2 dead and 28 injured, police say We don ;t know exactly how many, but we do know more than one person was shooting, Worley said.The shooting comes amid gatherings around the country leading up to the July Fourth holiday. A shooting in Kansas left seven
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