Two police officers fired shots in Prince George district, officials said.

Two police officers from Prince George County were shot dead in Forestville on Wednesday as a police team issued a search warrant for a drug investigation into a building, officials said.

The officers appeared to have suffered life-threatening injuries, said county police spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan.

Filming took place around 10:30 pm The team of nine officers announced in the apartment that they were police and received no response, said Donelan.

The police started to use a device to enter the unit and, the door of the apartment opened, a man inside fired at the team "as soon as they could open that door," said Donelan.

Two officers were hit, one in the hand and the other in the shoulder. After the first shot from inside, an officer on the team fired back but did not touch the suspect, said Donelan.

The incident occurred in the 2700 block of Lorring Drive, police said on their Twitter account.

After the shots were fired, the police entered the apartment and the suspect surrendered. He was arrested with a witness in the apartment who was not related to the search warrant, said Donelan. Donelan could not say how the suspect was tied to the warrant.

She said the police had recovered a shotgun at the scene.

A tactical team nurse immediately helped the injured officers, who were flown to Baltimore Shock Trauma.

Donelan credited the doctor's actions to save the lives of the injured officers.

"We are so relieved that they are alive," Donelan said. According to Donelan, the officers were in stable condition shortly before 1:00 pm Thursday.

"The relief we are feeling right now is hard to express," she said.

The team was part of the police emergency services team, equivalent to a SWAT team. He was executing a warrant for a drug investigation, said Donelan.

At the building, 28-year-old Kiara Tilghman fell asleep next to her two-year-old son when her sister entered her room to say that police were entering their building. Tilghman stood up and went to her door when she heard a loud knock on the door of the third floor unit above her.

She saw officers in the corridor wearing green bullet-proof vests and heard them giving orders outside the door.

"They were just knocking on the door, and I heard them tell them to get away from the door," Tilghman said during a phone interview.

She said that when the police finally cleared the door, she heard screams to "get off!" Get off! She did not hear the shots but quickly heard a voice say, "You have blood on you. Are you hit? Are you hit? Tilghman recalled.

The county executive, Rushern L. Baker III, said in a tweet that "tonight I will join all the Prince-Georgians who will have these officers, their families and all who have sworn to protect us in their thoughts and their prayers.