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U.S. NEWS Thursday 13 February 2020
Baltimore shooting leaves 2 officers wounded; suspect dead

By REGINA GARCIA CANO former state corrections
Associated Press official who had been un-
BALTIMORE (AP) — A shoot- der investigation, Maryland
ing at a Baltimore apart- Gov. Larry Hogan said at a
ment complex Wednesday news conference. He said
ended with the death of the task force officers were
a former state corrections going after “a really bad
official who had been un- guy.” Hogan did not re-
der investigation and the lease the suspect’s identity
wounding of two fugitive or any other details.
task force officers, authori- The shootings happened
ties said. as officials have increased
The officers, one a Balti- the presence of federal
more county detective law enforcement officers
and the other a detective in the city to stymie gang-
in the city of Baltimore, related activity and violent
were both assigned to the crime as a whole.
Capital Area Regional Fu- In December, the Depart-
gitive Task Force and were ment of Justice announced
trying to serve a warrant a plan to increase the
out of Pennsylvania for at- overall number of federal
tempted murder, said U.S. agents in Baltimore and
Marshals Service spokes- add more officers to task
man David Lutz. forces. Months earlier, the
“Our worst fears became department unveiled a
a reality when shots were task force focused on gun-
fired and the two officers and drug-related crime in
were hit,” Baltimore Police the city.
Commissioner Michael Har- Task force members, in-
rison said of the male of- cluding agents from the
ficers, without specifying FBI, Drug Enforcement Ad-
who fired. He said the sus- ministration and the Bureau
pect was fatally shot, but of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fire- Law enforcement personnel work at the scene of a shooting, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, in
he did not say by whom. arms and Explosives, work Baltimore.
Neighbors at the scene of from a shared location to Associated Press
the shooting in the city’s increase coordination. The
Frankford neighborhood task force to which the
told The Baltimore Sun that wounded officers belong
a suspect was “shooting also includes Secret Ser-
back” at officers. A sheet vice agents.
at the scene covered what “This was a perfect exam-
appeared to be a body. ple of that joint task force
One officer was shot in the executing warrants on vio-
leg and the other in the lent criminals,” Hogan said.
stomach, Lutz said. One “Unfortunately, it turned
of the officers had surgery, into a fairly tragic situation
and both were awake but with wounded police offi-
“still in very serious condi- cers.”
tion,” said Dr. Thomas Sca- Baltimore has been
lea, physician-in-chief at plagued with gun vio-
the University of Maryland lence for decades. The
R Adams Cowley Shock city ended 2019 with 348
Trauma Center. homicides, its fifth year in
Scalea said one of them a row with more than 300
was likely saved when fel- slayings. As of Wednesday
low officers at the site ap- morning, authorities had
plied a tourniquet to stop recorded 40 homicides
the bleeding. and 56 nonfatal shootings
The male suspect was a in 2020.q