By Giacomo Bologna
Source Baltimore Sun
Baltimore County Police say an officer shot a woman who allegedly dragged a police officer with her car Saturday night.
County police spokeswoman Joy Lepola-Stewart said a Baltimore County officer was working an off-duty job at The Avenue shopping center in White Marsh when shortly after 8 p.m., a woman hit him with a car, dragging the officer. The officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and the driver fled the scene.
Lepola-Stewart said officers later spotted the car and performed a traffic stop several miles away in Rosedale near the intersection of Hamilton Avenue and Maryland Route 7. There were two women in the car at that time. Lepola-Stewart said police were able to arrest one woman, but the other woman began to ram the car into officers’ vehicles and a bystander’s vehicle.
At least one officer fired at the driver, striking her, Lepola-Stewart said, though she continued to flee. Baltimore County Police officers apprehended the woman outside the Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore, approaching her car and applying a tourniquet near her gunshot wound, Lepola-Stewart said. The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, she said.
Police declined Sunday to provide additional details about the shooting, including where on her body the woman was shot, the criminal charges she faces or her name. They also didn’t further describe the initial incident at the shopping mall.
“Once the investigation and court proceedings allow, the name of the suspect will be able to be released,” said Trae Corbin, a police spokesperson.
At the site of the shooting late Saturday night, police cordoned off the intersection with yellow tape and shut down several nearby streets. Detectives walked through the intersection and a police employee took photos of a window in a nearby business that appeared to be shattered by a gunshot. (Police said Sunday that the window was not related to Saturday’s incident.)
At one point during the night, officers shut down a stretch of Pulaski Highway eastbound. At least four police cars and multiple officers were on the scene, routing traffic through a Royal Farms gas station. Three police also were stationed along Moravia Road with lights flashing, including one next to a streetlight that appeared to have been recently knocked over.
It’s unclear whether only one officer or multiple officers fired at the woman. Police said Sunday that the number of officers who fired a weapon is under investigation. Lepola-Stewart said officers were wearing body cameras at the time of the shooting.
Baltimore Sun reporter Lillian Price contributed to this article.
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