Two people have been injured during an overnight drive-by shooting near the intersection of Queens Chapel Road and Hamilton Street in Hyattsville.
The incident began around 2:55 a.m. at the nearby Shell Gas station.
According to Sgt. Chris Purvis, public information officer for the Hyattsville City Police Department, two groups of friends in two cars were at the gas station when a small, dark colored four-door compact vehicle turned from Hamilton Street into the Shell parking lot. Then suddenly, shots rang out from, police believe, within the dark compact car before it sped off.
Purvis said the most amazing aspect of the shooting was the fact that the shooter had to have driven past a nearby police officer on patrol.
"Our guy was set up next door in the Aldi's parking lot with his lights on and everything, keeping an eye on the establishments," said Purvis. "The guy had to have seen him."
In all 19 shots were fired. The nearby police officer at first thought he was hearing firecrackers, according to Purvis. When police arrived on the scene, they discovered one man suffering from gunshot wounds to the buttocks and stomach.
Later, police discovered they had a second victim, a woman who police describe as a bystander, had suffered a gunshot wound to the right hands and lip but had driven herself to the hospital for treatment.
The hail of bullets also damaged property nearby. The gas station door was shot out, and bullet marks apparently can be seen on the gas station building, according to Purvis.
Friday and Saturday nights needs to have heavier patrol. Too many cops inside these establishments patrolling, but not enough on foot outside! If college park does it to control crime.....why can't Hyattsville?!?!?!? I think the new art district has generated enough revenue to afford the extra cost for Hyattsville to put more officers on duty Friday & Saturday night. You can't build up certain areas and leaves others less than a mile away to rot!
Yes the particulars ARE known if you get off a site like this and read the local news stations you will see far more detail. I chose to post here because Hyattsville has 1) a reputation for retaliating against those that speak ill of it...I can't imagine the police department would be more receptive. and 2) Hyattsville has people like you who sit around and TROLL sites and people like me to spread the gospel of Hyattsville. I am not a troll just because I have a higher expectation of our police department and our city. It is sad and shameful that you just sit here, troll and accept the sad state of affairs in this town. The statement "I thought it was firecrackers" underscores my point about the cops in this town...If you hear firecrackers AT A GAS STATION...then perhaps you should check it out so it doesn't EXPLODE.
Guess what? So am I. One of my closest friends is a cop in DC. He's said before that Hyattsville cops are rejects of the DC and PG police academies. (He knows of one individual who flunked out and was also "racially aggressive" towards minorities) Not all cops are good. Not all cops are smart. This goes for military, doctors, etc. There are bad eggs in every bunch. If West Hyattsville and Artsy Fartsy mean nothing to you, then forget about it and move on. If you don't live here, and don't deal with these rejects like I do, then don't act high and mighty about them
Enjoy your cheerleading Jim
" One of my closest friends is a cop in DC. He's said before that Hyattsville cops are rejects of the DC and PG police academies. (He knows of one individual who flunked out and was also "racially aggressive" towards minorities)" If this is true and I'm sure that you're just blowing this out your !@## then evry cop in Hyattsville was a flunk out.I don't think you jerk. Now whats up with this " Not all cops are good. Not all cops are smart. This goes for military, doctors, etc. There are bad eggs in every bunch" Do you just spend your life hating everyone? Who in the HELL are you calling rejects??? The Police??? Now,now you jerk thats not nice. You sure don't play well with other do you. I was acting high and mighty just pointing out the truth and if you can understand that to bad. "If you don't live here, and don't deal with these rejects like I do, then don't act high and mighty about them"