Baltimore, MD – The New Year started out violently in Baltimore, with police investigating multiple shootings and three homicides over the holiday weekend.

Three people were killed in separate incidents from Friday-Sunday.

The first incident was where 49-year-old Dereck Jackson was found with “obvious head trauma” during a welfare check at him home in the 300 block of E. 23rd Street. He was found Saturday evening and his death is being investigated as a murder.

The second incident involved an unidentified 69-year-old man being located with a gunshot wound to the chest around 6:25 p.m. Saturday. He was found in the 2500 block of Reisterstown Road [...]