3 killed, 1 injured in shooting at Maryland manufacturing facility, officials say
Multiple people were shot Thursday in Smithsburg, Maryland, a town near Camp David, the presidential retreat.
A man fatally shot three of his fellow workers at a rural Maryland manufacturing facility Thursday before being injured in an exchange of gunfire with state troopers, authorities said.
Three employees of Columbia Machine, Inc., in Smithsburg, were killed and a fourth was injured, Washington County sheriff's officials said. A law enforcement official who first confirmed the deaths also initially said four people had been injured in the attack.
A Maryland state trooper who exchanged gunfire with the suspected shooter on a road near the attack suffered a minor injury, and the suspect was captured alive, the law enforcement official said.
Washington County Sheriff Douglas Mullendore identified the three killed as Mark Alan Frey, 50; Charles Edward Minnick Jr., 31; and Joshua Robert Wallace, 30.
A 42-year-old worker was injured, the sheriff said. The suspect, identified only as a 23-year-old man who lives in West Virginia, was in custody at a hospital, Mullendore said.
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