Three shot at Maryland convenience store, another found shot inside apartment

Two people were fatally shot and a third wounded at a Maryland convenience store early Sunday — with a fourth person found shot inside a burning apartment nearby, according to reports.

The chaos began just before 7 a.m., when three people were shot at a Royal Farms store in Essex, Md., about eight miles east of downtown Baltimore, according to The Baltimore Sun. Two of the victims died of their wounds, according to the report, which cited Baltimore County police.