Suspect is transferred to jail

31 charges are filed in standoff shooting

A man shot by state police after shots were fired at them during a recent standoff on Railroad Avenue outside Westminster was charged in warrants yesterday with 31 criminal offenses, including multiple counts of attempted first-degree murder and assault, police said.

Earl W. Delker Jr., 38, of the first block of Wimert Ave. was released yesterday from Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and transported by Carroll County sheriff's deputies to the county detention center, said state police spokesman Maj. Greg Shipley. Decker was to appear last night at a bail hearing before a District Court commissioner.

Police received a call July 29 from Delker's estranged girlfriend, who said that he had violated an Anne Arundel County court's protective order and threatened to kill her, Shipley said.

A trooper spotted Delker in his pickup in Manchester and pursued him, Shipley said. Delker drove his disabled pickup into a ditch on Railroad Avenue south of Hampstead-Mexico Road after its tires were flattened by stop sticks.

Delker refused to surrender and is accused of firing a handgun at troopers, who shot him with a nonlethal beanbag, Shipley said. Delker again refused to give up and shots again were fired at police, Shipley said. He said five troopers returned fire, hitting Delker in the right arm and torso. The troopers returned to duty yesterday, Shipley said.