Crime & Safety

Police Seek Brooklyn Park Shooting Suspect

The victim said he was walking when he was shot in the leg.

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A Brooklyn man who went to a Baltimore hospital with a gunshot wound said an unknown assailant fired at him while he was walking Tuesday afternoon in the 4000 block of Belle Grove Road in Brooklyn Park.

Anne Arundel County Police found spent firearm casings at the scene. While investigators were at the site, a call for a shooting was reported by the Baltimore Police Department after the victim went to MedStar Harbor Hospital.

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The victim, a 19-year-old man from Brooklyn, told police he was walking near Belle Grove Road when an unknown suspect started shooting at him. He suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to his leg.

Investigators say the suspect is described as a black male, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, dark pants and armed with a handgun.

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