Two Baltimore City sheriff’s deputies are home recovering from gunshot wounds suffered during a warrant raid-turned-gunfight in Sandtown-Winchester on Monday morning, but a suspected murderer wasn’t so lucky.
Deputies James Lane and Kenyatta Washington were wounded during a shootout while they attempted to serve a warrant on the 1700 block of Fulton Avenue just before 6 a.m., officials said. Both were released from the hospital and are expected to make full recoveries, said Sgt. Carla Lightsey, a spokeswoman for the city sheriff’s office.
“They are as well as can be expected, probably a little shaken up, I can imagine,” Lightsey said. “They are excellent officers.”
The warrant targeted Donte Bradford, 28, a convicted drug dealer wanted on a probation violation. But when officers entered the home, 25-year-old Emory Lamont Lewis opened fire.
Lewis, who allegedly killed his estranged girlfriend in Baltimore County last September, died in the shootout.
“He had disappeared, they think, to North Carolina, but then came back,” said Bill Toohey, a spokesman for Baltimore County police. “We learned he was back in town, but it was not known he was in that house.”
Bradford and two other men were detained, officials said.
Neighbors watched detectives remove a gray body bag from the brick row house. Neighbors said they saw three women and two children also escorted out.
A man who lives across the street who spoke on condition of anonymity said a feud escalated to gunfire outside the home several days ago.
“It happens a lot, you just don’t see police officers getting shot often,” he said.
Lewis made the FBI’s most wanted list for allegedly shooting Felicia Ann Spratley, 22, as she ran from him during a fight. Court records show Bradford has a long criminal history, including armed robberies, car thefts and drug charges.
Jeffrey Winns, president of the city’s sheriffs union, said it was the first time in his 11 years with the agency that a deputy has been shot in the line of duty.
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