The FBI said early Wednesday that a suspect was being held in connection with separate incidents involving shots fired Tuesday at a National Security Agency building and into traffic along the Intercounty Connector in Maryland.

Amy Thoreson, the spokeswoman for the FBIs Baltimore office, also said the bureau thought that the same man had been involved in other incidents of gunfire at sites around the Baltimore and Washington area in recent days.

The man was not identified and it was unclear what led to his detention.

We believe the subject responsible for shooting incidents on the ICC, near Fort Meade Army installation and other locations around the Baltimore-Washington metro area in the last two weeks is in custody, Thoreson said in a brief statement.

She said no other information was available immediately.

In the first of the Tuesday incidents, a truck was shot at at while on the connector road. The gunfire on or near the NSA campus came several hours later.

In the immediate aftermath of the two events, nothing appeared to create a solid link between the incidents, although suspicions were raised. No one was seriously injured.

The Baltimore office of the FBI said Tuesday night that it was taking the lead in the investigation of the NSA incident because it was a federal installation.

The first incident began about 2:40 p.m., when the window of a truck traveling east on the ICC near Interstate 95 in Prince Georges County was struck by gunfire, authorities said. The shot may have been fired from woods nearby.

One man in the truck was bruised by a bullet fragment that was blocked by his clothing; the other man was cut in the face by shards of glass, said Lt. Kevin Ayd of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Both were sent to a hospital with injuries that did not appear life-threatening.

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FBI: Suspect in shootings at NSA, Intercounty Connector is in custody