Editor’s note: This story, originally published at 10:37 a.m. June 14, 2025, was updated at 4:25 p.m. to include more information from police.
Montgomery County police are investigating an apparent shooting that occurred in a Rockville apartment, the department said Saturday afternoon in a statement. No suspect information was available, police said.
Rockville City and county police Officers and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service crews responded shortly before 8 a.m. Saturday to a call for a welfare check at an apartment building in the 600 block of Blandford Street, according to radio transmissions and the statement.
Shortly after 9 a.m., county police reported on social media that officers were investigating a homicide at the location and that the scene was secure. According to the Saturday afternoon statement, responding officers entered an apartment and found a man with an apparent gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man will be transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine the official cause and manner of death, the statement said. Police said the man’s identity will be released after the proper notification of the next of kin.
The location of the homicide is in a neighborhood near Richard Montgomery High School.
The incident is the second to occur in that area this week and what appears to be the third reported shooting in Rockville since Wednesday.
On Wednesday night, a 17-year-old was charged with attempted murder and other charges after a shooting in the 600 block of Blandford Street that left a man in critical condition, according to police. The suspect in that incident used a privately made firearm commonly known as a ghost gun, according to police.
Following Wednesday night’s shooting, two 18-year-olds were arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection with a Thursday evening shooting in the 200 block of North Washington Street in downtown Rockville, according to police. The incident also involved the use of ghost guns.
Wednesday night’s shooting occurred in the Rockville Town Center area and was near an Exxon gas station and the new Trader Joe’s grocery store that opened Thursday afternoon at 225 N. Washington St.
