An man was killed and an 11-year-old boy wounded in a shooting Wednesday morning on Clay Street in Annapolis, prompting officials to temporarily lock down several facilities in the area, Annapolis Police Chief Ed Jackson told The Baltimore Banner.
Jackson said police responded around 7:32 a.m. to the 100 block of Clay Street for reports of a shooting. Once there, he said, officers found two people who had been shot: the child 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 died from his injuries.
He added that the shooter or shooters remain at large, but police “don’t believe the public is in danger in general.”
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Detectives are investigating what led up to the shooting, Jackson said.
“It’s still a very active and fluid scene,” he said. “We’re still figuring it out.”
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.”
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.”
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“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 around 9 a.m.
“The whole area’s been locked down until we get a handle on things,” Jackson said.
Jackson said he had been in communication with 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.
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He said his agency 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.
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