A Baltimore City man died and nine other people were injured after a shooting and fiery crash in the Baltimore suburb of Towson Tuesday night, authorities said.

Investigators in Baltimore County are looking into whether a shooting and related vehicle crash that left one person dead and nine injured Tuesday night are connected to a nearby homicide earlier this month.

After a mass shooting in the Towson area Tuesday night, eight people remain hospitalized and one person has been released, police officials said at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. One person was killed,

Police said late Tuesday that officers responded to reports of multiple gunshots in Towson, a suburban community about 15 miles north of Baltimore.

One person was killed and nine were injured Tuesday night, Baltimore County police said. The gunfire was described by county Police Chief Robert McCullough in a briefing as an “ongoing … rolling-type gunshot incident” — involving one or more vehicles — that apparently was targeted and involved people who knew each other.

As Baltimore County residents process the shock of Tuesday night’s mass shooting in the Towson area, which left one person dead, data shows that the region has seen rising numbers of certain crimes in recent years.