Overview
- Police said they received a 9:15 p.m. call about a person threatened with a gun in the 6800 block of Bank Street.
- Officers canvassed the area and found a male suspect on a bicycle along Eastern Avenue near the I-95 south exit ramp.
- The suspect tried to flee and was tackled, then accessed a weapon and fired at officers, according to Commissioner Richard Worley.
- Two officers returned fire and killed the suspect, and no additional details about injuries to officers were immediately released.
- Commissioner Worley and the department’s PIO were on scene, and officials noted this is Baltimore’s second police shooting reported in two days.