Suspect Wounded in 2nd Officer-Involved Shooting in A Week

By Rudy Malcom [former] - August 12, 2021
Daily Stories | Non-Fatal Shooting |

A man was wounded in a police-involved shooting on The Block on Aug. 11., according to the Baltimore Sun. 

Police did not say the man fired, the Sun reported. The incident, which took place around 1:45 a.m. on the 400 block of E. Baltimore Street, marked the second time someone was shot by the Baltimore Police Department this week. 

Police held a press conference regarding the shooting on Thursday morning at the intersection of Fayette and Commerce Streets.

According to Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael S. Harrison, who said he watched an officer’s body camera footage, police were helping night clubs close down when they saw a fight occurring at the corner of E. Baltimore and Holliday Streets.

After an officer headed over, an unidentified man brandished a gun and “pointed it at the group and at the officer,” Harrison said.

The officer then chased him down E. Baltimore Street.

“About halfway into the next block,” Harrison said, “the suspect turned around toward the officer, who fired multiple times at the suspect, striking him.”

Police officers treated the man before he was taken to surgery at University of Maryland’s Shock Trauma Center, where he was hospitalized for non-life threatening injuries, Harrison said.

Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott, who spoke at the scene, said he was grateful the incident was not a “shooting of multiple people by someone who wanted to resolve a conflict in the way of pulling a gun.”

“In no circumstance is it okay for a grown man to point a gun at a group of people, let alone a group of women,” he said. “We cannot have people pointing guns at people.”