Man Airlifted After Shooting in Columbia Apartment: Police

One person was in critical condition after a shooting in Columbia on Thanksgiving, police said.

UPDATE: Police Identify Columbia Shooting Victim

The shooting occurred in an apartment in the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road Thursday afternoon, police said.

At approximately 12:30 p.m., a woman inside the apartment heard a knocking on the door and when she answered it, a man ”barged in and began shooting,” according to the report from the Howard County Police Department.

The suspect was wearing a mask and carrying a gun, police said. He left the scene after the shooting, according to police.

The 29-year-old victim, who had been shot several times, was taken by medevac to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police reported. He sustained “critical and very serious injuries,” police told WNEW.

While responding to the shooting, law enforcement officers stopped a vehicle that was leaving the 5800 block of Stevens Forest Road, police said. The driver was a resident of the apartment where the shooting occurred, and the vehicle also contained a 29-year-old passenger who had a minor hand injury, police said.

Authorities were drawn to the SUV because there was “some commotion at the scene of the vehicle,” where a woman was driving and there was blood on the 29-year-old passenger’s hand, police told WBAL. He was taken to an area hospital for treatment, according to police.

Officials were investigating whether the two incidents—the shooting and the 29-year-old with the hand injury—were related, police said.

Several people from the apartment and the vehicle have been taken in for questioning, according to police.

Police said there was no threat to the public, as investigators believed the shooting was targeted.