Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Woman Shot by Police Will Be Charged

Police: The woman was holding a handgun replica when she was shot.

A woman shot by a Baltimore County police officer early Saturday morning in Pikesville was holding a handgun replica and will be charged in the incident, police said.

A Baltimore County police officer shot the woman several times in the upper body after she did not follow police orders to drop the weapon.

The woman threatened the officer with a metallic replica of a large semi-automatic handgun, a police investigation revealed. The woman, who was in stable condition Sunday afternoon, will be charged with first-degree assault and obstruction of justice upon her release from the hospital, Baltimore County police Officer Shawn Vinson said. The woman's name cannot be released until she is officially charged, Vinson said.

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Detectives have requested an emergency mental evaluation of the woman.

The officer who fired the shots is identified as Officer Small, an eight-year veteran of the police department, who is assigned to the patrol division at the Pikesville precinct. The officer’s first name is not being released, in compliance with the department’s contract with the police union, Vinson said.

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Just before 2 a.m. Saturday, police responded to a house in the 3100 block of Northbrook Road for a report of a suspicious person. When they arrived, an officer saw a woman standing in front of the house. When he approached her, she threw a large rock at the house, breaking a window, a press release said.

The woman then pulled out the handgun replica and did not drop it after the officer ordered her to do so several times, the release said. As the situation escalated, the officer shot the woman several times in the upper body, the release said.

The investigation is ongoing, police said.


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