Shooting at Baltimore Hilton

BALTIMORE - Baltimore City Police are investigating a shooting inside a room at the Pratt Street Hilton.

A police spokesperson says that an unidentified woman believed to be in her mid-20's shot her boyfriend in the stomach following a dispute at the hotel at around 7pm on Tuesday.

The man, in his mid-30's, was taken to Shock Trauma with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld says hotel security was alerted to the shooting inside a fourth-floor room and called for police and medics.

"Officers responded to the fourth floor in the area of the room and were able to convince both the victim and the suspect to exit the room and throw the weapon out."

The woman, who had lacerations to her back, was also taken to a hospital. Police say she was the registered owner of the gun.Both she and the man are believed to be from the Baltimore area.