Baltimore County police are investigating a shooting near Dundalk Elementary School that left a man and woman hospitalized.
Officers were called at 10:41 p.m. on Friday to the area of Liberty Parkway and Dunmanway, where they found a 26-year-old man who had been shot multiple times in the upper body.
The investigation led police a few blocks away, to the 2900 block of Cornwall Road, where officers found a woman who appeared to have been struck by a gun, but not shot.
County police spokeswoman Officer Jennifer Peach said the incident occurred after a dispute escalated. Both victims were taken to area hospitals and are expected to survive, Peach said.
The incident followed an alleged assault on undercover police detectives a day earlier.
On Thursday, police said, two detectives were struck by cars as they tried to stop a suspected drug deal in Dundalk. The incident sent one detective to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Hugh Maurice Allen Wade Jr., 26, and Ambra Destiny English, 26, were charged with first-degree assault, drug violations and other related charges in connection with the incident.
According to police, the undercover detectives saw an alleged drug deal between someone in a white car and someone in a gray car about 11:30 a.m. near Aldworth and Edworth roads.
The driver of the white car drove away, hitting an unmarked Baltimore County police car and a detective beside the car, police said.
Wade, the driver of the gray car, drove off but hit a curb, got out and ran, according to police. English picked him up in another car and then hit the second detective, who was on foot and trying to stop them, police said.
Wade and English are both being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $500,000 bail.
Police have issued a warrant for a 28-year-old Dustin James Erb, who they said was driving the white car.
Erb is charged with first-degree assault and other charges in connection with the incident. He is currently in custody in Baltimore City on an unrelated charge.
The unrelated incidents left some Dundalk residents rattled.
"It's getting bad," said Ronnie Dillon, 72, as he chatted with friends at Veterans Park. "I've been here for 44 years. This place is going downhill."
He said the county should install new cameras to monitor public areas and to deter drug deals and other crimes.
The Police Department's violent crimes unit is investigating the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 410-307-2020 or call Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7LOCKUP.
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