In breaking news today CNN –
a 23-year-old man kills three during workplace attack at a manufacturing plant in Maryland Thursday (breaking news today CNN). He then fled the scene and exchanging gunfire with state police, authorities said.
A 25-year veteran trooper and the suspect were wounded and hospitalized, according to Lt. Col. Bill Dofflemyer of the Maryland State Police. But the trooper survived and received treatment.
Investigators have not yet established a motive for the workplace shooting. But mentioned it occurred at about 2:30 p.m. ET, Washington County Sheriff Douglas W. Mullendore told reporters at a briefing.
The Washington County State’s Attorney’s Office is working to determine charges for the suspect, who is not being named at this time, according to a news release from MSP.
According to the news site this marks the 254th mass shooting this year. As police first arrived from a nearby town one worker laid injured in a nearby field.
The attacker shot four people, one survived. Then the suspect fled, details of the vehicle helped officials locate him. The police captured him 5 miles from the scene.
Victims of the killing include Mark Alan Frey, 50; Charles Edward Minnick Jr., 31; and Joshua Robert Wallace, 30.
Brandon Chase Michael, 42; survived.
In recent days the U.S House of Representative passed several bills regarding guns. The bills include raising the age buy certain semiautomatic centerfire rifles from 18 to 21. Also, establish new federal offenses for gun trafficking and for selling large-capacity magazines.
Additionally, allow local governments to compensate individuals who surrender such magazines through a buyback program.
Due to the questioning of the protection from the mass shooting in Uvalde, occurring right after Buffalo mass shooting, parents, and children spoke out.
The mother of Zaire Goodman, a survivor of the Buffalo massacre, spoke out. She suggested voting out lawmakers not willing to make gun laws stricter.
