A Maryland state trooper was critically injured Tuesday morning in a shooting at a Woodlawn rowhouse where he was trying to serve an arrest warrant to a suspect, authorities said.
The suspect also was shot and died after firing at Trooper First Class Eric D. Workman, state police said.
Workman, 36, and officers from a regional warrant task force were let into the home in the 5500 block of Forest Park Avenue at about 5 a.m. after spotting the suspect?s van parked outside, police said.
Someone in the house alerted the officers that their suspect, Steven Tyrone Jones, 38, was on an upper floor, police spokesman Greg Shipley said.
They had begun climbing upstairs, he said, when “the suspect appears and immediately begins shooting at them.”
The officers returned fire and fatally wounded Jones, who was wanted in an Eldersburg home invasion, Shipley said.
One man was already arrested and charged in connection with Thursday?s incident, in which a family was tied up at gunpoint, Shipley said. Police had identified Jones as the second suspect, Shipley said.
Workman was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center with a gunshot wound in his left armpit and underwent at least one round of surgery Tuesday as his relatives, including his father and a brother, flocked to the hospital, Shipley said.
Police tape later cordoned off the Woodlawn rowhouse, which was decorated for Christmas with red ribbons and angels. Investigators gathered out front andneighbors drove by slowly. Lonzy Brewton, who lives next door, said he couldn?t think why a suspected criminal would be in his neighbors? home.
Brewton said he woke up at about 4:30 a.m. for some water and heard “real, real loud knocking” on a door outside.
Within minutes, he said, he heard two men talking, a loud commotion and then a pair of gunshots.
“I?m still kind of really shook up,” he said. “This is always a quiet neighborhood.”
A decorated trooper with nearly 10 years in the department, Workman was on his second urgent trip to Shock Trauma with injuries suffered on the job: Shipley said he was struck by a car in September 1998 while directing traffic.
