Authorities say at least three people were killed and three others were injured in a mass shooting Thursday at a manufacturing business north of Smithsburg, including the suspected shooter and a Maryland State Police officer.
According to Sgt. Carly Hose, there is no longer danger to the public. The Washington County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to a gunshot incident at 2:30 pm.
Maryland Manufacturing Plant Shooting Kills 3 People
Deputies arrived at Columbia Machine and discovered four gunshot victims, three of whom were deceased. Hose stated that the survivor was brought to a hospital. Sgt. Carly Hose stated that the suspect, a guy, escaped before the sheriff's office arrived. When a state policeman came across the suspect, they exchanged firearms. Both were injured and were sent to the hospital. Their circumstances were unknown.
The incident occurred at Columbia Machine, which sells concrete manufacturing equipment to customers in over 100 countries. Rep. David Trone tweeted that he was closely monitoring the deadly incident. Senator Chris Van Hollen also tweeted that he was keeping an eye on the issue. Smithsburg is located around 75 miles northwest of Baltimore, close to the Pennsylvania border, USA Today reported.
As per the Gun Violence Archive, this is the 254th mass shooting this year, with the country on track to match or exceed last year's total. It comes after the US House of Representatives passed multiple initiatives aiming at gun control, but the laws have little chance of being approved by the Senate.
The Baltimore office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the FBI both stated that agents are assisting the sheriff's office with the incident, according to CNN.
Series of Nationwide Deadly Shootings Spark Protests
Following the Texas elementary school massacre, which murdered 19 children and two adults, there is a fresh emphasis on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions received by Republican politicians from pro-gun rights organizations. Following the bloodiest school massacre in almost a decade, legislators are pleading for tighter gun control legislation.
"What are we doing?" said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on the Senate floor on Tuesday, following an incident at a Texas elementary school that killed at least 19 children and two adults.
There's a trend here. Following a mass shooting, Congress focuses on gun and other pertinent legislation, but Republicans refuse to approve most new gun regulations, and Democrats lack the 50 senators needed to break the filibuster.
The student-led gun control advocacy organization March for Our Lives demonstrated in the aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas, school tragedy. The demonstrations took place four years after a shooter killed 17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida. That incident prompted the formation of the organization, which then staged one of the greatest protests in US history, as per Axios.
Students from Patrick Henry High School just walked out of class at noon on Tuesday, joining thousands of others throughout the country in support of gun control legislation.
They took part in the countrywide walkout organized by Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. The Del Cerro campus has become a focal point for many young people who want to be heard, requesting that their school be a safe zone after they claim to have faced a danger of their own.
Unlike previous demonstrations at Patrick Henry High School, the administration was not pleased with the publicity. At the time of the walkout, the principal and vice-principal asked the media to leave the site. Shukriya Osman, a junior, helped plan the event and joined Cariq in talking to the media outside the camp.
After lunch, Patrick Henry High School students returned to class. They are planning future rallies, Kpbs reported.
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