BETHESDA, Md. – The Latest on shootings at a shopping center and mall in the Washington suburbs (all times local):
2:05 p.m.
Police say a two people are dead and two others are wounded after two shootings at a mall and a shopping center in the Washington suburbs.
Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks said Friday a man has died following the shooting at the mall.
Police said a woman was shot earlier at a grocery store about 5 miles away. Police later tweeted that the woman has died. It's not clear if the shootings are connected.
Starks says police are still looking at the possibility that the two shootings in Montgomery County are related, and they are also looking at the possibility that they are related to a fatal shooting at a high school Thursday in neighboring Prince George's County.
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1:15 p.m.
Police in Maryland say a woman is dead and three people are injured in shootings at a mall and a shopping center in the Washington suburbs.
Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Darryl McSwain says three people were shot in the Westfield Montgomery Mall parking lot in Bethesda on Friday morning. He says one person was shot and two others may have been shot coming to that person's aid. He says there's no reason to believe the victims knew the shooter.
McSwain says a woman was shot at a grocery store about 5 miles away. Police later tweeted that the woman has died. It's not clear if the shootings are connected.
McSwain says no one is in custody, but police are looking at a person of interest.