City police fatally shoot knife-wielding man
A city police officer fatally shot a man last night in an East Baltimore house when the man lunged at police with a knife after stabbing two other people in the dwelling, a department spokesman said. Names of the dead man, the stabbing victims and the officer were not available last night, police said. Officer Troy Harris, the spokesman, said Eastern District police responding to a report of a stabbing inside a house in the 800 block of N. Belnord Ave. about 10:50 p.m. entered the dwelling and found two people in a room bleeding from stab wounds; a man standing nearby was armed with a knife. Harris said the officers repeatedly ordered the man to drop the knife but that he refused. When the man made a threatening move toward the officers, Harris said, one of them pulled out his Glock 9 mm semiautomatic handgun and shot the suspect at least twice in the upper body. Harris said Fire Department medics arrived and pronounced the man dead at the scene. He said the two stabbing victims were taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and were treated for injuries that were not life-threatening. He did not know the relationship between the dead man and the stabbing victims or what led to their being attacked. The officers were not injured.
