ESSEX, MD – Police are investigating an overnight shooting in Essex that injured a man.

At just before midnight on Monday night, June 24, officers Police responded to a convenience store in the 800-block of S. Marlyn Avenue (21221) for a reported of a man who had been shot.

Police determined that the victim, a 26-year-old man, was shot by an suspect in the area of S. Marlyn Avenue and Sandalwood Road.

The circumstances that led up to the shooting remain under investigation at this time.

The victim was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the mid-section. He is expected to survive his injuries.

Anyone with additional information on this incident is asked to call police at 410-307-2020.