Officer Fatally Wounds Woman
CARROLL COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) -- A Carroll County woman armed with a handgun who was threatening suicide was fatally wounded by a Maryland state trooper Monday evening after she refused repeated orders to surrender and repeatedly pointed the gun at him.
According to police, officers were called to the 4600-block of Upper Beckleysville Road in Hampstead for a domestic situation between the woman and her sister.
While troopers were en route to the scene, a second call was received informing troopers the woman had armed herself with a handgun and was threatening suicide. The woman's sister reported she and her teenaged daughter had locked themselves in an upstairs bathroom.
Two troopers, a Hampstead police officer and a Carroll County deputy sheriff, arrived at the two-story home shortly before 6 p.m. The preliminary investigation indicates the woman appeared at upstairs and downstairs windows repeatedly pointing the gun at the police officers. The woman refused repeated commands to drop the weapon and continued to repeatedly point the gun at the trooper. In fear for his life, the trooper fired his department-issued .40 caliber pistol, wounding the woman.
The woman was flown Shock Trauma Center where she was pronounced dead.
No law enforcement officers were injured.
The investigation is ongoing.
