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Sun Jul 28, 2024, 03:03 AM Jul 28

1 dead after Columbia Mall shooting, police say

1 dead after Columbia Mall shooting, police say

Ivy Lyons | ilyons@wtop.com
July 27, 2024, 10:35 PM

A shooting at the Columbia Mall in Howard, County, Maryland turned deadly Saturday evening after an unidentified gunman fired shots on July 27, 2024. (WTOP/Ralph...Read more

Howard County, Maryland, police issued a lockdown and started an investigation Saturday after an altercation at The Mall in Columbia turned into a deadly shooting.

Officers responded to reports of an active shooting incident that started at around 6:10 p.m. in the mall, according to a Howard County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson.

Shots rang out “during an altercation between two people” in the mall’s food court area, police said, killing one unidentified male. … “We don’t believe this is a random incident and we do believe it was a victim who was targeted,” spokesperson Sherry Llewellyn said during a press conference Saturday evening.

Police have since determined that the people involved in the shooting left the mall property.

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Ivy Lyons
Ivy Lyons is a digital journalist for WTOP.com. Since 2018, they have worked on Capitol Hill, at NBC News in Washington, and with WJLA in Washington.
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