A Baltimore police officer shot and killed a suspect in a road rage incident early this morning after the man struggled with officers and tried to grab a gun, police said.
At 4:40 a.m. officers got a call for a report of “road rage” in the 3500 block of Liberty Heights Avenue. When the officers arrived at the scene, they saw a dark blue Nissan Maxima they believed was involved in the incident, said Detective Donny Moses, a police spokesman.
The officers questioned the driver, whom Moses described as “very uncooperative,” and then attempted to remove him from the vehicle, police said.
“He became combative, fighting with the officers,” Moses said.
The suspect ? who appears to be an adult male — then tried to grab one officer?s gun, causing the other officer to shoot him multiple times in the upper torso, according to Moses. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
One officer is being treated at a nearby hospital for an injured wrist and the other for an injured leg and knee, according to Moses.
The man was the 21st person shot – the eighth shot fatally – during altercations with city police this year.
