Hagerstown Police are investigating separate Tuesday night shooting, stabbing
Hagerstown Police are investigating a shooting and stabbing that occurred in the city Tuesday night — incidents that were unrelated to each other.
Police said the shooting is "believed to be a targeted incident" and the stabbing as an assault that escalated from a dispute between two males who know each other.
Hagerstown Police were preparing an arrest warrant Wednesday morning for a suspect in the stabbing case, according to Sgt. Benjamin Lyncha. The warrant is for assault and reckless endangerment charges.
Hagerstown officers responded to the first block of South Cannon Avenue around 9:20 p.m. for a report of a gunshot victim who walked into the Sheetz along East Washington Street, according to an email from Lyncha.
Police determined two unknown males fired multiple shots into a vehicle parked along the street that had three people inside, police wrote. The suspects fled in a vehicle.
One of the parked vehicle's occupants was hit by the gunfire and has injuries that are not life threatening, police said. Police were not releasing that victim's name as of early Wednesday.
Male injured in Hagerstown stabbing
At 10:45 p.m. Tuesday, Hagerstown Police went to the 300 block of Henry Avenue for a reported stabbing. Henry Avenue is between West North Avenue and Bethel Street, east of Jonathan Street.
Police found a male who had been stabbed four times, according to the email from Lyncha. The male was taken to Meritus Medical Center near Hagerstown for injuries that were not life threatening.
Police determined two males who are familiar with each other had a dispute that escalated to an assault.
Anyone with information about the shooting or the stabbing may contact Detective D. Vogel at 301-790-3700, ext. 241, or dvogel@hagestownpd.org.
Police work with criminal intelligence partners on shooting case
Hagerstown Police coordinated with Washington County's Maryland Criminal Intelligence Network (MCIN) site on the shooting incident, according to Lyncha's email.
The Governor's Office of Crime Prevention, Youth and Victim Services provides grants and strategic support to member sites "to identify, disrupt, and dismantle criminal organizations through inter-agency collaboration and data sharing," the email states.
The Hagerstown Police email did not list the specific partners in this investigation.
In general, the county's intelligence network includes Maryland State Police and other local law enforcement agencies as well as the county state's attorney's office, U.S. Attorney's Maryland office, Hagerstown's fire marshals, the county's Narcotics Task Force, the state's Department of Public Safety & Correctional Services, and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigator's Network for the Western Region, according to the group's website.
This article originally appeared on The Herald-Mail: Two injured in separate Hagerstown shooting, stabbing
