PRESS RELEASE FOR SHOOTING ON TRANQUIL COURT

On Friday January 13, at about 7:30pm units responded to Tranquil Court in Prince Frederick for a report of an assault involving a gun.  The deputies located an adult male victim with gunshot wound to the shoulder.   The suspect, described as a thin black male, fled the scene prior to the arrival of the police.  The victim was flown to Baltimore Shock Trauma and is alert and conscious.   The Criminal Investigations Bureau of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office has assumed the investigation. The investigation is on-going and an update will be provided at a later time.