A search is on for an “armed and dangerous” gunman who allegedly opened fire at a school bus stop on Wednesday morning in Annapolis, killing a man and wounding an 11-year-old boy in front of horrified children.

The suspect, Roscoe Jerome Jones, 31, of Oxon Hill, fled the scene and remains on the loose, Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson told The Banner.

Police have obtained a warrant for Jones, charging him with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, firearms crimes and other offenses in the daylight attack on Clay Street, Jackson said.

Jackson said people should avoid Jones and call authorities if they encounter him.

“He’s considered armed and dangerous,” Jackson said. “He’s a trigger puller.”

Online court records show Jones was convicted of carjacking in Prince George’s County in 2011 and sentenced to eight years in prison.

Annapolis officials earlier in the day described the daylight shooting as brazen and heartless, noting many children were waiting for school buses when gunfire erupted.

Police responded around 7:30 a.m. to the 100 block of Clay Street for reports of the shooting. Once there, Jackson said, officers found two people who had been shot: the boy and a 36-year-old man.

The 11-year-old was taken to a hospital with a wound to his foot, where “he is expected to be OK,” Jackson said. The man, John Simms, Jr., died from his injuries.

The boy and Simms were unrelated.

Annapolis Elementary School Principal Shelley Hartford said in a letter sent to parents and staff that “many of our students were traumatized this morning when they witnessed a shooting at a bus stop.”

“It’s never an easy thing when one child was hurt but another child lost a parent. That’s a very sad thing,” said Alderwoman Karma O’Neill, who represents the area where the shooting happened, in a phone interview. “I wish we could magically make all the pain go away, but we can’t.”

“To think the bus stop is not a safe place to be standing with your fourth grader is tragic,” she added, describing the shooting as “a tragedy all around, not just for that community, but for Annapolis as a whole.”

Jackson said that the shooter or shooters remain at large, but police “don’t believe the public is in danger in general.”

Detectives are investigating what led up to the shooting, Jackson said.

“We’re still figuring it out,” he said.

By 11:45 a.m., the chief said, detectives had reviewed footage that possibly captured the incident.

“It has been helpful,” Jackson said. “We have leads from that.”

According to the letter sent to the Annapolis Elementary community, officials placed the school on “secure” status until about 10 a.m., meaning only students and staff were allowed into the building during that time. The school is less than a mile from the shooting scene.

“One of the buses at the scene of the shooting brought students to school on time,” Hartford wrote. “The second bus was detained at the scene and arrived after school began. City police also brought several students to school, and we appreciate their partnership.”

Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman said in a post on social media that the county government building in Annapolis, the Arundel Center, and the nearby Whitmore Parking Garage, which is on Clay Street, had been closed “out of an abundance of caution.”

“Law enforcement is actively responding and remains on the scene,” Pittman said. “We are in close coordination with public safety officials during this time. The safety of our employees, visitors, and community is our highest priority.”

A separate social media post from an Anne Arundel County government account said those facilities had reopened about an hour and a half after the shooting.

“The whole area’s been locked down until we get a handle on things,” Jackson said at the time.

Jackson said he had been in communication with Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley and Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell.

“We want the community to know we are going to do all that we can to keep the community safe,” Jackson said.

The county school system sent additional counselors and school psychologists to Annapolis Elementary to “assist students in processing their feelings” and said “those services will be available for as long as necessary,” Hartford’s letter said.

“Out of an abundance of caution and to help relieve anxiety,” she added, Annapolis Police had an additional presence at the school and bus stop in the afternoon.

Hartford encouraged parents to talk to their children about the shooting.

“Please help them to understand that it is OK not to have answers to every question,” Hartford wrote. “Most importantly, please prepare them to have an outstanding day at school tomorrow, reiterating they are safe in our building and that we will have people on hand to help answer questions they have.”

O’Neill said Anne Arundel County Police deployed its Crisis Intervention Team, which features officers specially trained to help people with mental health issues or who have recently experienced trauma, to be in the community when children got off the bus from school.

At something of a loss for what else to do, O’Neill said she was planning a meeting for the community next week.

“I know that meetings don’t solve anything, but it will bring everybody together,” O’Neill said.

Buckley called the shooting “disturbing” at an afternoon press conference.

“We’ve had a heavy police presence in that neighborhood,” he said. “Last week, we got three people off the street, three violent people, a car, guns. And we’ve maintained that presence in that area. But who can expect that this violence is going to happen at 7 or 8 o’clock in the morning? How are we supposed to police things like that?”

Jackson said his department had devised a deployment plan for the area where the shooting occurred, where last week they made arrests and confiscated guns and ammunition.

The fatal shooting Wednesday marks the second homicide of the year in Annapolis.

This article has been updated to correct that Roscoe Jerome Jones is of Oxon Hill. The Banner regrets the error.