Maryland National Capital Park Police are investigating the death of a man  gunned down on a basketball court in South Laurel Thursday evening, marking the 19th criminal homicide in Prince George’s County this year.

The incident occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m. when county patrol officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 13000 block of Mistletoe Spring Road near Route 197.  Upon arriving, police said they found an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound.  He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The shooting occurred at an apartment complex about a mile from the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.

Cpl. Clinton Copeland, a Prince George's County Police spokesman, said police discovered the man's body on a basketball court.  It was eventually determined that Park Police have jurisdiction over the homicide because it took place on park property.

The incident marks the 19^th homicide in the county this year and second murder in the last week.  On Monday,  a 27-year old Suitland man was gunned down in Oxon Hill.