'Multiple fatalities' reported at shooting in business park in Aberdeen, Maryland
Channel: Good America
Date: 20/09/2018

ABERDEEN, Md. — A shooting Thursday at a Rite Aid warehouse center near Aberdeen, Maryland, left "multiple fatalities" and many wounded, sheriff's officials said.

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler declined to specify the number of dead and injured or to take questions from reporters at a news conference.

Gahler called the shooting "another tragic event for us here in Harford County." In October, a machine operator at a Harford granite company shot five people at his workplace and another man at a car dealership. Three of his victims died.

The sheriff said a suspect in the Aberdeen shooting, who appeared to use a single handgun, was hospitalized in critical condition. Gahler said no shots were fired by law enforcement officers but did not elaborate on how the suspect was injured.

The Associated Press quoted an unidentified law enforcement official as saying three people were killed in the incident 35 miles northeast of Baltimore. 

Raymond Fang, trauma medical director at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, said four adults were treated for gunshot wounds. He would not discuss their conditions nor did he say whether the shooter was among the patients.

WBAL-TV and NBC News reported that the suspect is female.

The shooting occurred at a Rite Aid support facility, and "what I understand is the location is secure," Rite Aid spokeswoman Susan Henderson said. Roughly 1,000 employees work there, she said.

"The distribution center is where products are received and processed for delivery," she said. "This is part of a large facility that is a distribution center. The shooting happened adjacent to the primary building."