Police investigate shots-fired incident in Wheaton

Montgomery County police are investigating a shots-fired incident that was reported in a residential neighborhood in Wheaton on December 7, 2025. Residents reported hearing gunfire in the 11100 block of Easecrest Drive at 6:41 PM that evening. That is in the Glen Haven neighborhood off of University Boulevard. 

Police describe the suspect only as a Black male of unknown age. If you have any information that could assist detectives in closing this case, call police at (301) 279-8000.

Obama and Wheaton neighborhood team up against climate change

President Barack Obama signed a series of executive orders Monday designed to address climate change. One of the orders, which initiated a DOD Privatized Housing Solar Challenge, hits close to home - right here in Wheaton, Maryland.

The Obama order designates the Glen Haven apartments, a Balfour Beatty military housing community on McMahon Road, as one of the Solar Challenge sites.

A press release from the White House promises that the solar power project in Wheaton, and 11 other military housing sites nationwide, will reduce annual carbon emissions by approximately 324 metric tons.

SILVER SPRING/WHEATON/ASPEN HILL/GLENMONT POWER OUTAGE UPDATE

Dozens of customers are without power around Silver Spring and Wheaton tonight. Less than 5 Pepco customers are in the dark off Georgia Avenue just south of the Matthew Henson State Park in the Aspen Hill-Glenmont area. Other small outages are being reported off of Connecticut Avenue, south of Veirs Mill Road, in Montgomery Knolls, along New Hampshire Avenue near Notley Road, and in the Glen Haven and southern Kemp Mill areas of Wheaton. The greatest number of outages are in the Glenmont Forest vicinity.

Pepco's current estimate for restoration of power to these folks is midnight.