CAMBRIDGE, MD – A male suspect was shot Friday night by police officers from the Cambridge Police Department after he brandished a gun. At around 10 pm, officers were engaged with a suspect in the 700 block of Lincoln Terrace when a male subject brandished a gun.
Police officers fired at the man who refused to comply with officers, according to the Cambridge Police Department.
The shooting took place in the same neighborhood that has been plagued with violence in recent days.
The suspect was taken to Tidal Health in Salisbury with non-life-threatening injuries. The Maryland State Police Homicide unit is investigating the incident.
On Thursday, two people were shot in killed in the same neighborhood. At 7 pm, ashots fired call was reported near the intersection of Pleasant and Race Streets. 24-year-old Taijay Daniels was shot multiple times after being robbed at gunpoint. He later died at the hospital.
At 10pm, just a block away from Friday night’s police-involved shooting, 69-year-old Leroy Fields was shot in the head while outside his home on High Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
It is not known at this time whether Friday night’s police shooting was related to the murders this week.