Man Shot at Gas Station During Melee After Bar Closed

LEXINGTON PARK ---  The typical boozing crowd of wild oafs who leave the Happyland Club, and on occasions, other hellhole bars of St. Mary’s, descended upon the Wawa on Great Mills Road early Sunday morning and in the mayhem which ensued, a 18-year-old man was shot and was fighting for his life in a shock trauma unit after being flown from the scene of the shooting.

Murder and shootings involving the crowds of roaming and raging blacks leaving the Happyland Club have been a destructive tradition in St. Mary’s that no recent sheriff has been able to master, and making some wonder why no one seems happy when they leave the Valley Lee nightclub.

When this latest shooting took place, a large crowd of some 300 to 400 barflies had crowded into the Wawa and many were fighting, said police.

Maryland State Police Det. Sgt. Jack McCauley told ST. MARY’S TODAY that investigators had a good idea who the shooter is and expect to capture him soon.  He said that while his men are out looking for the suspect,  

“We aren’t releasing his name yet, but he is expected to survive,”  said Sgt. McCauley.  When rescue squad personnel arrived at the Wawa, they immediately began to administer CPR.

When police responded to the call, the crowd was threatening and out of control.  One man said that he had been tasered by a deputy.  The purpose of a taser is to use less than deadly force to gain control over unruly subjects.

Police called for emergency reinforcements from Calvert County with a half dozen squad cars responding.

SUNDAY  2:15 AM  Signal 13 called out for officer in need of assistance, police units speeding to the Wawa on Great Mills Road with a large crowd of 100's fighting....police units from Calvert County are being called to assist with the mayhem...this is the same wild bar crowd which leaves local bars and conduct brawls at 24 hour stores such as Sheetz and Wawa...maybe 300 or 400 people....CPR in progress for shooting victim, this is not a good report, the shooting victim is in great peril of dying....the entire area is a crime scene, police are blocking all exits from the Wawa to trap vehicles fleeing....police have an eyewitness "stuffed in a police car".....Maryland State Police Trooper Seven is responding to the Wawa on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park to fly out the victim, Bay District VFD is setting up a landing zone...6 police units are en route from Calvert County....punks with guns have been using Great Mills Road as a free fire zone for years. Local hoods conducted a gun fight just a quarter mile away five years ago in front of Gloria's Pawn Shop in broad daylight, right at the afternoon rush hour.   The lawlessness is unopposed by local law officers, who respond to the calls for shootings at such hellhole bars as Monks Inn, Mirage and Brass Rail.   One man was murdered as two cars roared along Chancellors Run Road after a bar fight at the Happyland Club.  The area's most recent bar murder took place in July at Monks Inn. Sheetz hires off-duty officers to police their stores at night but Wawa does not wish to pay the extra fees for security.  Generally, law enforcement in St. Mary's County is impotent when it comes to dealing with bar fights, bar murders and roaming crowds of barflies intent to commit mayhem and murder....leaving St. Mary's County with a wild west image....the murder at the Brass Rail took place as drug dealers shot at a man who was rescued from a beating by an off-duty deputy....the gunmen fired at the deputy too, who fired back and only winged the drug dealers....but the man the officer was attempting to protect was killed....two weeks later top law enforcement officers showed up at the same establishment for a banquet to kick off a drunk driving enforcement effort.  Police units are asking for the CALVERT COUNTY UNITS TO HURRY UP to get to the Wawa....The MSP chopper may be landing too close to the Wawa as many in the herd of boozing bozos are roaming the field where Trooper Seven is planning to land....chop, chop, chop....The first two units of Calvert Police have arrived, Calvert is requested by St. Mary's to send all available units...but will Sheriff Zylak be called at home to wake up and come to the scene of violence and mayhem, just two days before he faces a primary election challenge?