Washington:
Two males had been shot and critically wounded in a Maryland industrial park on Tuesday in an incident that ended with the alleged gunman, identified as a Navy sailor, going to a nearby military base exactly where he was shot dead, police stated.
Authorities in Frederick, Maryland, 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Washington, had been nevertheless attempting to piece with each other the events shortly right after they unfolded with an emergency get in touch with at 8:20 AM EDT (1220 GMT).
“As you can imagine, this is a very active scene right now,” Frederick Police Chief Jason Lando told reporters on Tuesday morning.
“We have two different scenes,” Lando stated. “All I can tell you is that we have confirmed we have only one shooter. The public is safe.”
After getting the get in touch with, police located the two shooting victims, each males, at Riverside Tech Park, a suburban-style sprawling complicated of two-story industrial organizations, Lando stated.
Both had been flown to the Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical System in Baltimore, Lando stated, adding that “at this time, the last update we have is that both of our victims are in critical condition.”
The alleged shooter then went to the nearby Fort Detrick Army base, about 4 miles (6 km) away, exactly where was fatally shot by military personnel, Lando stated.
The Navy stated on Twitter that the unidentified shooter was a Navy hospital corpsman.
Lando stated police would have a additional update on Tuesday afternoon.
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