A Houston woman, who was the mother of a football prospect at the US Naval Academy, was shot and killed on Tuesday at a hotel in Maryland’s Annapolis, just hours after she dropped off her son to college, local media reports said.

According to police, shots were fired around 12.01 am on Tuesday on a nearby street from the hotel where the woman, Michelle Cummings, 57, was sitting with her husband Leonard with another couple. 

Cummings was declared dead on the scene, police said, CNN reported. 

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Annapolis Police Chief Edward Jackson said several shots were fired at a parked car nearby and the shots “travelled a distance” before Cummings was killed, CNN quoted. He said that Cummings was not the target of the attack.

The incident comes at a time when the many cities in the US are struggling with a surge of gun violence and murder. 

“What I’ll say to the shooter is, ‘Turn yourself in. We’re coming for you,'” Jackson said, quoted CNN.

The authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information in the case, Jackson said, adding that the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives are assisting in the investigation.