A teenage girl is dead, and her father was critically injured in an apparent domestic incident in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on Wednesday night, police say.
The incident happened inside a home in the 1800 block of Tanow Place in District Heights, county police said. Officers responded about 9:35 p.m. It was not immediately clear who called police.
Inside the home, Nia Johnson, 17, was found suffering from gunshot wounds. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead not long after.
Her father was also found inside the home with a gunshot wound, police said. He had life-threatening injuries and remained hospitalized Thursday.
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"Preliminarily, this appears to be a domestic-related incident," police said in a news release Thursday afternoon.
Detectives are working to determine what happened, including a motive and who fired the shots. Authorities said they believe there are no outstanding suspects, and everyone involved was accounted for inside the home where the shooting occurred.
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Police went door to door talking to neighbors and brought out bags of evidence from the home.
Residents said this was a quiet neighborhood and they'd never seen police go to the home. They said the people who lived in the home were neighborly and they could not understand what might have happened.
"They were good people, you know," said one neighbor, who asked that his identity not be shared. "I've met him; I know him. He has a cat; I have a cat. He daughter was nice."
Nearby resident Timothy Howell told News4 he was surprised the shooting happened in the area.
"It's very, very unfortunate, because everybody sticks to themselves around here," Howell said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the homicide unit at 301-516-2512. Those wishing to remain anonymous may call Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-TIPS (8477), or submit a tip online at www.pgcrimesolvers.com.
