Police investigate woman’s suspicious death inside Silver Spring home

By Jack Pointer
April 19, 2018 | 1:35 PM

WASHINGTON — Montgomery County, Maryland, police are investigating a woman’s suspicious death in her home.

Officers found the woman’s body Wednesday morning in the apartment, located in the 3600 block of Bel Pre Road in Silver Spring, while doing a welfare check.

The body had apparently suffered trauma, police said.

Authorities have taken the body to Maryland’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. Anyone with information regarding the death should contact Montgomery County police’s Major Crimes Division at 240-773-5700.

WTOP’s Megan Cloherty contributed to this report.

Maryland Zoo’s lone female elephant moving as facility transitions to all-male herd

By Catherine Chen
August 23, 2026 | 5:48 PM

The Maryland Zoo is preparing to say goodbye to its only female African elephant as it changes to an all-male herd. Felix, a 43-year-old elephant who has lived at the Baltimore zoo for 19 years, will move to another facility later this week. Zoo officials said the move is in Felix’s best interest because it will give her opportunities to socialize with other female elephants. Her interaction with other females have been limited since the zoo’s other female elephant died in 2024. “We will all miss her but having social companionship in a female herd is the best thing for Felix’s overall well-being,” Mammal Curator Erin Cantwell Grimm said.

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