Two men are dead and one is injured after a shooting in Charles County, Maryland. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.
Two men have died and another was injured in a shooting in Charles County, Maryland, Monday afternoon, authorities say.
The three men were shot on Shelton Court shortly before 2 p.m., Diane Richardson, a spokesperson for the Charles County Sheriff's Office, told News4. They then drove away from the shooting scene.
Richardson said several people called 911 when they heard the gunshots and said they saw an SUV leave the area.
Officers then spotted the SUV more than four miles south of the shooting on Route 210, Richardson said. The vehicle was already pulled over at Laurel Drive.
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The officers found the three shooting victims, all in their late teens or early 20s, inside the SUV. Authorities tried giving medical aid to one of the men, but he died a short time later, Richardson said.
The two other men in the SUV were flown to a hospital. One of those victims has since died, the sheriff's office said. The condition of the third victim is unknown at this time.
All lanes of Route 210 were shut down near Laurel Drive as deputies investigated the shooting. Children arriving home from school had to be escorted past the scene.
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