BREAKING NEWS: Four people are found dead in their cars in two separate shootings just six miles apart in Maryland
- Woman was shot dead inside a car in Rogers Heights, Maryland on Friday evening
- Two men and a woman were fatally shot in a separate shooting incident six miles away in the early hours of Saturday morning
- Police are now trying to determine whether the two cases are related
- The names and ages of the victims have not yet been released
Four people have been shot dead in two separate shootings in Maryland overnight.
A woman was fatally shot while sitting inside a car in Rogers Heights, northwest of Washington DC, around 7pm Friday.
Police responded to find the female victim suffering from ‘gunshot trauma’. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Just eight hours later, at 3am on Saturday, three others were killed in a separate car shooting just six miles away.
Two male victims were shot while sitting inside a car, while a female victim was discovered dead at the side of the vehicle.
In a Twitter update Saturday morning, the Prince George’s County Police Department stated ‘Preliminarily, detectives don’t believe this is a random crime. We are on the scene working to establish suspect(s) and motive in this case.’
Officers are now working to determine whether the two shooting incidents were linked.
The names and ages of the victims have not yet been released to the public.
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