Police Officer Shot

Suspect shot by police in N.W. Baltimore 2 A Baltimore police officer shot a suspect in the upper body about 8 p.m. yesterday during a narcotics investigation in Northwest Baltimore, police said. The shooting occurred at Pimlico Road and Garrison Avenue after two people got into a car and drove into an officer at the scene, said Anthony Gugliemi, a police spokesman. The officer was treated at a hospital and released. A second officer fired at one of the suspects with a service revolver, Gugliemi said.

On Oct. 20, a city police officer shot and wounded a man near an elementary school after chasing him to a breezeway, where he was found crouched with his hands under a black jacket. He threw the jacket at the officer, who shot him in the leg. If this shooting happened the way police said it did, it will probably be ruled justified by department investigators. Perhaps it already has been found "within policy." Chances are, you and I will never know much more about the case. The department's new public affairs director, Anthony Guglielmi, has decided that identities of officers who shoot people will no longer be made public, at least until after all reviews are completed and then only if the officers' actions are deemed unjustified.

A Baltimore police officer shot a man just steps from an elementary school yesterday afternoon after a chase that involved a car crash and ended when the man was caught hiding under an inflatable pool, police said. Police said the incident began about 12:40 p.m. when a member of the SWAT team on routine patrol on Westwood Avenue passed a 1993 Chrysler New Yorker and observed a man duck inside the parked car. The officer turned around to conduct a field interview when the driver fled, running red lights and stop signs, and drove into Leakin Park, said Donny Moses, a police spokesman.

An Anne Arundel County police officer was shot in the upper body yesterday morning during a running struggle with a man in South Baltimore's Brooklyn neighborhood, but he was saved from serious injury by his bullet-resistant vest, according to a county police spokesman. The 30-year-old officer, a four-year veteran whose name was not released, was rushed to Maryland Shock Trauma Center as a precaution, and was treated and released later in the day, county police said. A suspect was quickly arrested in the 6:30 a.m. shooting and was questioned by police detectives, and charges were pending last night.

A man whose leg was broken during a fight in which a uniformed police officer shot and killed an off-duty officer was released without charges yesterday, authorities said. The man was initially charged with disobeying police, according to a source familiar with the investigation who was not authorized to talk about the charges. The state's attorney's office declined to prosecute, said Margaret Burns, a spokeswoman for city State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy. The man's name has not been made public.

A man was killed and a Baltimore police officer was shot in the leg yesterday evening during a shootout just south of the Orangeville Industrial Area in East Baltimore, police said. About 10:30 p.m., members of the citywide SWAT team on routine patrol were among police searching for a man who, for no apparent reason, had abandoned a vehicle and was eluding officers, said acting Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. Bealefeld, who arrived at Maryland Shock Trauma Center shortly after the officer was brought in, said members of a SWAT team were in the 600 block of N. Bouldin St. looking for the man when they spotted him hiding under a van parked in front of several rowhouses on a normally quiet street.

A police officer shot a man yesterday morning in Southwest Baltimore after he attempted to strike the officer with his car, according to police. Ernest McMillon Jr., a patrol officer in the Southwestern District who has been with the department since 2004, shot the suspect in the thigh, said Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. McMillon, 33, was placed on administrative leave until police complete an investigation into the shooting, as is department policy. The driver was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening, officials said.

An off-duty Maryland Transit Administration police officer shot two juveniles yesterday morning after one pointed a gun at him in East Baltimore, according to police. The officer, an 11-year veteran of the force, was not injured in the incident. He is 47 years old, according to an MTA spokeswoman, but neither police nor the MTA officials named him. The officer, who was not in uniform, had just returned from a trip to a store about 3 a.m. and was smoking in front of his home in the 1600 block of N. Broadway when a green van drove by, said Agent Donny Moses, a Baltimore police spokesman.

A Montgomery County police officer shot and killed a teenage suspect at a park-and-ride lot in Burtonsville yesterday after the youth allegedly approached another officer and shot him in the shoulder and head. The injured officer, Detective D.H. Oaks, was flown to an area hospital, where he was listed in fair condition late yesterday, said police spokeswoman Lucille Baur. The two officers were conducting an undercover narcotics operation when a teenage boy approached one of them and opened fire, according to Baur.

A city police officer shot and wounded a knife-wielding man yesterday after efforts failed to subdue him with Mace and a stun gun, according to a police spokeswoman. Southwestern District Officer Raford D. Moten fired two shots at Tony Yarborough, striking him once in each arm during a tense standoff at a home in the 4000 block of Woodridge Road in Southwest Baltimore, the spokeswoman said. Officers were called to the house about 12:20 p.m. after receiving reports that a man bent on suicide was there.