Attorney General’s Office Investigating After Deadly Police Shooting In Glen Burnie

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GLEN BURNIE, Md. (WJZ) — The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating aft an serviceman changeable and killed a antheral Sunday successful Glen Burnie.

Anne Arundel County Police said the antheral who was changeable had a knife. After the shooting, constabulary recovered the assemblage of an aged woman.

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“I saw a full rack of constabulary cars successful the neighborhood,” neighbour Justina Asare said. “I did not cognize what was going on.”

Anne Arundel County Police said they got a telephone from a pistillate astatine location connected Braden Loop astir 1:30 Sunday day saying a antheral had chased his household members retired of the location with a knife.

“The pistillate besides advised that erstwhile she was successful the house, she noticed humor and there’s besides an aged pistillate that resides astatine the residence that could not beryllium located,” Anne Arundel County Police Lt. Jacklyn Davis said.

When constabulary arrived, they accidental they knocked respective times earlier entering. Inside, they recovered the fishy with the knife.

Police said they archetypal tried to sprout the fishy with a legume container weapon and past tased him aggregate times, but that didn’t work.

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“That taxable past raised the limb towards officers astatine that clip 1 of our officers fired his work weapon,” Lt. Davis said. The fishy died astatine the scene.

After searching the home, constabulary said they recovered the assemblage of an aged pistillate successful a closet. They person not released however this pistillate died yet.

“It’s horrible,” Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad said. “It’s occurred implicit the holidays. Death is ne'er acceptable during immoderate clip of the year, but it’s peculiarly much disturbing during the holidays.”

Community members are grieving for the household involved.

“My deepest condolences,” Asare said. “I don’t privation this for anybody.”

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The authorities lawyer general’s office’s Independent Investigations Division is investigating the shooting. The part was created arsenic portion of constabulary betterment authorities called the Maryland Police Accountability Act.

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