Two men are dead and a woman is in critical condition after two shootings in Rockville and Laurel in the US state of Maryland. According to police, the incidents could be related.
Montgomery County police said officers were called to a double shooting in the 14900 block of Southlawn Lane in Rockville Thursday morning.
A 60-year-old man was found seriously injured on a grassy area near a sidewalk. He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead, police said.
Witnesses told police they saw a dark Toyota Tacoma pickup leaving the scene of the accident.
Officers then spotted a gray Toyota Tacoma nearby, near Norbeck Road and Avery Road.
Inside was a 54-year-old man who apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
According to Laurel police, the vehicle was linked to a domestic assault that occurred the night before in the 14200 block of Westmeath Drive in Laurel.
A woman was seriously injured in the shooting. Her condition is stable, but she is still in the hospital, police said.
“The vehicle that fled the scene of this domestic incident has been located and linked to the double shooting in Rockville,” Laurel police said.
Laurel police arrived at the scene in Rockville, which occurred nearly 20 miles from the original shooting.
Montgomery County and Laurel police are trying to determine whether the man found in Tacoma was involved in the Laurel shooting, Montgomery County police spokeswoman Shiera Goff said.
Police have not released the names of the shooter or the victims, nor have they released any information about how they may have known each other.
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