A Pasadena man fired shots at Anne Arundel officers Monday and barricaded himself in his house for seven hours before being arrested, Anne Arundel police said.
The incident began about 1 a.m. when police received a call for a 34-year-old suicidal man who was armed with a gun inside a house on the 2100 block of Lake Drive.
Officers tried approaching the house but the person inside fired at them, police said.
The police did not return fire, but after trying unsuccessfully to persuade the man to leave his house, they declared a barricade situation and called for special operations officers.
Officers tried to negotiate with the man, police said. The special operations officers eventually fired chemicals into the house, which forced the man to come outside where he was taken into custody.
“The incident actually was brought to a conclusion without any injuries,” said police spokesman Sgt. John Gilmer, who would not confirm the man’s identity until formal charges are brought against him.
Police issued a warrant charging the man with reckless endangerment and discharging a firearm in a residential area, but he had not been served with the warrant because he was undergoing an evaluation at Baltimore Washington Medical Center.
Officers searched the man’s house and found a fully loaded AR-15 assault rifle and spent shell casings.
