SILVER SPRING, Md. (DC News Now) -- Montgomery County detectives said that 17-year-old Jaril Verde Murillo was killed in a shooting on Tuesday evening.

The Montgomery County Department of Police (MCPD) said that officers responded to the 700 block of University Boulevard East around 11:30 p.m. for reports of shots fired and a person down in the roadway.

There, officers found Verde Murillo suffering from a gunshot wound. First responders tried to perform life-saving measures, but he died from his injuries.

According to police, two other men were with Murillo at the time of the shooting but were unharmed.

After an initial investigation, police say that Murillo and the two other males were walking on a path towards Foxhall Apartments on Piney Branch Road when suspect(s) shot in their dire

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