BALTIMORE (WBFF)– One teenager is dead and two others injured in two afternoon shootings police believe may be connected.

Officers were called to the first shooting on E. Patapsco Avenue and 4th Street at 4 p.m., where they located a 16-year-old boy shot in the arm and hand, and an 18-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound to the back and arm.

Both were transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

About two hours later another 16-year-old boy was shot on St. Victor Street and Patapsco Avenue. He was pronounced deceased at the hospital from a gunshot wound to the chest.

Anyone with information on these two incidents should contact Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.