Baltimore County police on Monday identified the third man its officers have shot and killed in 2007.
Keith Showalter, 25, of Parkville, was killed Sunday at about 3:30 a.m. after he emerged from his apartment wearing camouflage and fired a rifle several times at officers, according to Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill.
Police initially came to the 2200 block of Lowells Glen Road at about 2 a.m. when Showalter and his girlfriend got in an argument in his apartment, Hill said. Showalter said he was going to kill himself and barricaded himself inside the apartment, police said.
A supervisor from the police?s Parkville precinct attempted to contact Showalter, but he refused to talk and eventually emerged from the home shooting, Hill said.
Two officers then returned fire and killed him, police said.
Showalter was the third person Baltimore County police have shot to death this year.
Last Monday, officers killed Danny Ray Hammonds, 52, when they entered his Dundalk home in the early morning in search of his son, who was a suspect in a homicide. Hammonds reached for a gun, refused an officer?s demands to stop, and was shot to death by the officer, police said.
In early January, Baltimore County police also killed Justin Carl Wylczynski, 21, of Berwick, Pa., after he fired on officers, police said.
Wylczynski was in Essex visiting friends when he got into an argument at The Silver Dome Lounge. He fled in his car from police, then exited the car, firing at police with a handgun, police said.
The officers returned fire, hitting the suspect and killing him, according to police.
