The Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division (IID) is investigating a suspected fatal shooting involving Howard County police in Laurel on Nov. 30.
At approximately 3:10 p.m., Howard County police responded to a residence in the 10000 block of American Pharoah Lane for a domestic disturbance. According to body camera footage, responding officers encountered a female victim on an outside upper ledge of the house and an adult male suspect at a window inside the residence with a long gun.
When the suspect repeatedly refused to drop the weapon, two officers fired shots. Officers entered the residence and found the man deceased. Multiple shell casings from an unknown weapon, as well as several firearms, were located at the scene. Preliminarily, it is unclear whether gunfire by an officer or the suspect’s own weapon resulted in his death.
The three occupants of the residence were evacuated unharmed. No officers were injured.
Per Maryland law, the IID has assumed the investigation into the shooting.
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