5 shot, 3 dead in Maryland business park, gunman on the run, Harford sheriff says
Ted Hendricks, Sean Welsh and Kevin RectorContact Reporters
The Baltimore Sun
10/18/17 10:20 AM
Three people have died and two are injured in a shooting at an
Edgewood area business park, the Harford County sheriff said Wednesday.
The shooting occurred around 8:58 a.m. at
Advanced Granite Solutions, and sheriff’s deputies were on the scene within four minutes, according to Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler.
All five people were shot with a handgun, and are employees of the business, Gahler said.
“This does appear to be a targeted attack, limited to that business,” Gahler said at an 11:10 a.m. news conference.
Gahler identified the suspect as
37-year-old Radee Labeeb Prince, who he said was connected to the business.
“What that association is, that’s still under investigation,” Gahler said.
The suspect left the scene in a black 2000 GMC Acadia with Delaware tags, Gahler said. A residence in Cecil County was searched as part of the investigation, Gahler said.
“We do not believe that anybody else was involved in this incident,” Gahler said.
At least two patients from the shooting scene are in critical condition at Shock Trauma, University of Maryland medical officials said Wednesday morning.
Some Harford County schools in the Edgewood Area are on modified lockdown, district officials said.
According to
Advanced Granite Solutions' website, the company
designs, manufactures and installs granite, marble and stone countertops and other surfaces in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
"There’s an individual out there on the loose who’s committed one of the most heinous acts in our county, we certainly consider him armed and dangerous,” Gahler said.
Prince had
several prior arrests and run-ins with law enforcement, court records show.
In December 2003, Prince pleaded guilty in Delaware to 15 counts of third-degree burglary and was sentenced to 25 years with all but two years suspended, court records show. He was
ordered to pay $34,500 in restitution, the records show.
He was c
harged with several handgun counts in March 2015 in Cecil County, including being a
felon in possession of a firearm and carrying a handgun in vehicle; those
charges were dropped by Cecil County prosecutors about three months later.
In February, a peace order — Maryland’s equivalent of a restraining order — was taken out against him in Harford County but
was denied. Details of the case were not immediately available.
Gov. Larry Hogan said the state had two helicopters and the state’s fugitive apprehension team looking for the suspect.
“The killer remains on the loose. He was last seen heading toward Cecil County, toward Elkton, close to the Delaware line,” Hogan said during an unrelated event at the State House in Annapolis.
The governor said he spoke with Harford County Executive Barry Glassman and Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler and that the FBI, the Maryland State Police and the Maryland Transportation Authority are helping the sheriff’s office. He said
three people were dead and two others were shot in the head....
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