For the first time in nearly 20 years, Baltimore city has suffered more than 100 homicides before the end of April. The grim total came after the three new murders on Monday, including one fatal shooting near the famed Inner Harbor, reported the Baltimore Sun.

As the police were discussing about the shooting in afternoon, another man was shot dead in the East Baltimore in the same area as a new senior citizen center which was rebuilt after burning while under the construction during riots that hit the city two years ago, reported the Sun. That shooting pushed the total number of homicides in the city for the year 2017 to 101.

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The ongoing violence has not relented since 32 homicides were recorded in the month of January, the most in that month since the year 2005. Baltimore has not seen 100 homicides before the end of April since the year 1998. The violence in Baltimore has began to spike in the spring of the year 2015, the following riots prompted by the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray.

Rev. Donte Hickman, whose Southern Baptist Church built a senior center in the East Baltimore, told to The Baltimore Sun that the city's problems are no longer receiving the attention they did after the riots sparked by the Gray's death from injuries he sustained in the police custody.

"We have to engage this community or it's going to continue to be a bloodbath," he told to the newspaper.

T.J. Smith, a chief spokesman for the Baltimore Police Department, told to the Sun that authorities are "continuing to do everything we can to impact that number so it doesn't continue to grow."

Mrudula Duddempudi.