Montgomery Community Media

Montgomery County police arrested an 18-year-old from Prince George’s County last week for a shooting that took place in November outside the Dick’s Sporting Goods in Wheaton, a police statement said. Santiago Julian Alvarez, of the 800 block of Brightseat Road in Landover, is being held without bail, according to online court records. He is […]

Montgomery County police say they are investigating a shooting, an armed robbery and carjacking that took place about 4 p.m. Thursday in Bel Pre. A police statement said multiple 911 calls reported a robbery at 14200 block of Pear Tree Lane. Officers found two victims on the side of the roadway of Pear Tree Lane; […]

Update, Wednesday: Montgomery County police said Valentino Pritchett, 18, shot himself as officers tried to arrest him for the Oct. 23 killing of 20-year-old Stephen Frazier of Germantown. Pritchett, of an unconfirmed address, was developed as a suspect during the investigation, police said. About 7 p.m. Tuesday, officers found Pritchett traveling in a vehicle in the area […]

Montgomery County police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred early Sunday morning. Around 4 a.m. police and fire and rescue responded to the Silver Spring 7-Eleven at 8202 Georgia Avenue for the report of an assault in progress, according to the police. Responding officers located an unresponsive male outside the store with an apparent […]

Silver Spring police detectives have obtained a warrant for the arrest of the person they believe shot a 39-year-old man in a White Oak apartment Friday, Aug. 24. About 5:33 p.m. Friday evening, police and fire and rescue services responded to a report of a shooting in the 11500 block of Lockwood Drive in the […]

Silver Spring police district detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred Friday afternoon. About 5:33 p.m., police and rescue services responded to a report of a shooting at a home in White Oak. According to the police, a man was found with a gunshot wound in a home in the 11500 block of Lockwood Drive […]

The internal affairs investigation of Officer Anand Badgujar could take a few months, Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger said Tuesday night. Badgujar shot and killed Robert White, an unarmed man, in a quiet Silver Spring neighborhood in June. The criminal investigation of the shooting was handed over to the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office, […]

A woman was shot Thursday night in Takoma Park after she met her assailant on a social media app, city police said. The shooting occurred about 7:55 p.m. in the 8300 block of Flower Avenue in Takoma Park. The woman was taken to a local hospital where she has non-life-threatening injuries, police said. After the […]

Four men — three from Montgomery County — face gun charges after a traffic stop Wednesday night, Montgomery County police said. One of the men faces charges in connection with shots fired into a Germantown home, police said. The Germantown police district’s District Community Action Team (DCAT) have arrested and charged: Jordan Becraft, 20, of […]

Germantown police district detectives are investigating a shooting that occurred early Monday. About 2 a.m., a 28-year-old man with an apparent gunshot wound to his torso approached a security employee outside of the Adventist HealthCare Germantown Emergency Center at 19731 Germantown Road, a police statement said. The victim was taken with non-life-threatening injuries from the […]