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Four people were killed and at least one was injured in a shooting and fire early Saturday morning in Woodlawn, authorities said, adding the suspect was shot by police and was among the dead.
Authorities said it was not immediately clear what led to the violence on a residential street in suburban Baltimore. They identified the dead suspect in a later news release as Everton Brown, 56, and said he lived on the street.
The police statement added that four officers discharged their firearms and all had been placed on routine administrative duty per departmental policy. It added that police body worn cameras recorded footage of the scene officers encountered and it showed one home was fully engulfed in flames when they arrived.
Trio of Saturday mass shootings rock U.S.
Police officers in New York City s Times Square on Saturday. Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images
The U.S. was hit by shootings in New York City s Times Square, a shopping mall in Florida and at a townhome near Baltimore that left four people dead, including the suspected gunman.
The big picture: Since President Biden took office in January, over 700 people have been injured or killed in 139 mass shootings as of late last month.
Biden has called gun violence in the U.S. an epidemic and international embarrassment.
What s happening: In the shooting in Woodlawn, Baltimore County, Maryland, police said in a statement that officers were called to a shooting and fire in which two men and a woman died.
May 08, 2021 - 10:32 AM
WOODLAWN, Md. - Three people were killed, including a suspect, and two were injured in a shooting and fire early Saturday morning in Maryland, according to authorities.
It was not immediately clear what led to the violence on a residential street in suburban Baltimore, and neither the suspect nor the victims were immediately identified.
Around 6:40 a.m., officers responded to reports of both a fire and active shooter in Woodlawn, Baltimore County Police spokeswoman Joy Stewart said at a news conference.
Officers found an armed male outside and shot him, according to Stewart.
Authorities then began fighting a fire that started in a townhouse and spread to two others, Tim Rostkowski, a county fire department spokesman, said at the news conference.