Killing occurred late Saturday afternoon in District Heights.

A man was fatally shot Saturday afternoon in Prince George's County in what appeared to be the 100th homicide in the county this year.

As of Thursday, official figures indicated that the homicide total in the county this year had stood at 99. Saturday's slaying, the first reported since then, raised the number to 100.

The figure is roughly comparable to last year but slightly larger. Last year the number of homicides through Thursday's date was 97, two less than this year.

In Saturday's incident, officers went to Walker Mill Road and Karen Boulevard after a shooting was reported.

They found a man outdoors who had gunshot wounds, police said. He died at the scene, they said.

The man's name was not released immediately.

The intersection is in a residential area, characterized by many three- and four-story apartment houses.

The essential similarity between homicide figures this year and last year in Prince George's contrasts with rates in the District, where the number has declined sharply.

In D.C., the number of homicides this year as of Thursday was listed in city figures as 185, contrasted with 265 at the same time last year.

The decline in the District so far this year is about 30 percent.

However, the District's figure for 2023 was unusual, and marked an increase of about 35 percent from the year before.

In Prince George's, the number of homicides also rose in 2023 compared to the previous year. But the 117 homicides reported in the county in 2023 increased by a smaller amount. The 117 was 14 more than the 2022 figure of 103.

That was a rise of a little less than 14 percent, less than half the District's jump from 2022 to 2023.

Prince George's, which shares a border with eastern and southern sections of the District, has a considerably larger population than D.C. The 2000 census listed Prince George's at about 967,000, while the District's population was less than 700,000.

In both jurisdictions, the homicide figures were far higher than in Montgomery County, Maryland, which adjoins both. In Montgomery, the numbers rose to 29 in 2023 from 21 the year before.