Four members of a Prince George's County-based labor union were onboard a plane that collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday in Washington D.C., and are now presumed dead, union leaders said in a social media post.

Two people were killed in separate overnight crashes in Laurel and Jessup, prompting investigations by Howard County police into the causes of both fatal collisions. The first crash happened around 10:45 p.

Friday, the Army released the names of two of the three soldiers who were in the DC helicopter-plane crash and are now presumed dead. One is from MD.

D.C. police have identified the man who was shot and killed in Northeast on Saturday. According to the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), shortly after 5 p.m. on Jan. 25, officers responded to a residential building in the 1500 block of Benning Road.

Jesse Pitcher in a duck blind during his hunting trip in Kansas. He was one of seven in his hunting party who died Wednesday on their way back home to Maryland when their flight from Wichita collided with a U.S. Army helicopter near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Courtesy photo Fowl Plains

Wednesday night’s plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is hitting close to home, as many of the victims are from Maryland.  That includes one of the soldiers on the Black Hawk helicopter.

Jesse Pitcher, Michael Stovall, Steve Johnson, Alexander Huffman, Charles McDaniel, Jonathan Boyd and Tommy Clagett were on their way home when Flight 5342 went down