Three people were shot in the early hours of Saturday, October 31, 2026, at a large outdoor meet-up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Montgomery County detectives are still trying to identify the person who opened fire.
Source: Montgomery County Department of Police statement, via MoCoFeed
Officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police, 3rd District, responded at approximately 1:51 a.m. to a report of a shooting in the 11900 block of Bournefield Way in Silver Spring, the department said. When officers arrived, they found three people suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.
Who was hurt
The three victims were two adults and one teenager, police said. The teenager is not being named in this report. Two of the victims — one adult and the teenager — were taken to area hospitals with injuries police described as non-life-threatening.
The third victim was taken to an area hospital with injuries police described as life-threatening, but police said that victim appeared to be in stable condition at the time of the department's statement. Police did not release the victims' names, exact ages or the names of the hospitals.
What police say happened at the meet-up
According to the police department's initial investigation, all three victims were attending a large organized outdoor meet-up in the area when an unknown suspect began shooting. Police have not said what the meet-up was for, how many people were there, or whether the victims were targeted or struck at random — those questions remain part of the investigation.
Source: WTTG FOX 5 DC and WUSA9, via US Event Monitor
Two Washington-area television stations, WTTG (FOX 5 DC) and WUSA9 (CBS), also reported three people injured in the early-morning shooting at the outdoor meet-up, with one person seriously hurt — matching the county police account on the number of victims and the seriousness of the worst injury.
Anyone with information about the suspect or the shooting can contact Crime Solvers of Montgomery County, MD at www.crimesolversmcmd.org (using the www.p3tips.com link at the top of the page) or call 1-866-411-8477. Tips may remain anonymous, police said.
What happens next
Detectives from the Montgomery County Department of Police — 3rd District Investigative Section — are leading the case, which police described as an active and ongoing investigation. At the time of the police statement, the suspect had not been identified and no arrest had been announced.
For residents of the Bournefield Way area, the immediate questions are whether a suspect description, surveillance video or an arrest follows in the coming days, and whether the seriously injured victim's condition improves. Anyone who was at the meet-up and left before officers arrived is the kind of witness detectives say can help — and the tip lines above are open to them anonymously.