Howard County Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Oakland Mills in East Columbia, the department said late Tuesday night in a statement.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to the 6000 block of Helen Dorsey Way for a suspicious circumstances call and located a male victim with at least one gunshot wound in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle, police said. The victim, who has yet to be identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The time the shooting occurred remains under investigation. Preliminarily, the incident does not appear to be random, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call 911.