Police: Man sent to hospital after Glen Burnie shootings

Anne Arundel County police responded to two shootings reported in Glen Burnie early Saturday morning.

Officers were in the area of Heritage Hills, in the 200 Block of Polk Drive, investigating a shooting that sent a man to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries around 12 a.m.

He was sent to the University of Maryland Medical Center. Police found an unknown suspect fired multiple shots, striking the man once and firing into the lower level of two townhouses on the block.

The families were not injured. The shooter is still unknown at this time.

Officers remained in the Heritage Hill area when they heard shots ring out a second time. Police canvassed the area and found damage to a sliding door at the moment they received a 911 call for a shooting on the 6400 Block of Freedom Drive. Police searched the block for a shooting suspect and evidence when they got a call that a man was tampering with a vehicle.

It was a 16-year-old who lived in the area and matched the description of the shooting suspect recovered from a home surveillance video. He was placed under arrest without incident, police said. The Glen Burnie teen was charged as an adult for handgun possession.

Officers on the scene and a flying a helicopter located the teen in the 6400 Block Freedom Drive, within walking distance to his home, around 1:50 a.m.

Police are still investigating the scene for physical evidence and do not currently know if the teen was involved in both shootings that happened nearly two hours apart and on the same street.

Police are still investigating the two incidents and ask anyone with information to call the Northern District detective unit at 410-222-6135 or place an anonymous call to Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-756-2587.