gunman kills teen on maryland bus

What a nightmare... In Maryland, a gunmen killed a 14-year-old boy and seriously wounded two other teenagers on a crowded Montgomery County bus on Saturday night: Silver Spring Teenager Fatally Shot On Md. Bus. The victim, Tai Lam, apparently got into some sort of argument with the shooter before it happened.

The shooter was in a group of three to five people who had words with Lam and his friends. According to police, the first group got off the bus at the next stop, but the gunman then turned and fired several shots at the teenagers inside.

Lam, a freshman honor student and wrestler at Montgomery Blair High School, was pronounced dead a short time later at a hospital. The other victims, ages 14 and 15, were in serious condition yesterday.

The suspect is described as a Hispanic man in his early 20s, 5-foot-4 to 5 foot 7 inches tall, with no facial hair and wearing a black hooded jacket and blue jeans. He has a tattoo with lettering on the side of his neck. Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call Montgomery homicide detectives at 240-773-5070.