A Baltimore police officer sitting in his patrol car shot and critically wounded a man who came up to him pointing a 9mm handgun, police said Sunday.
(BaltimoerSun)- Police Commissioner Kevin Davis called the incident an attempted “suicide by cop.” When other officers and EMTs arrived on the scene in Northwest Baltimore, Davis said, the suspect told them multiple times: “He should have finished me off.”
The shooting, which occurred about 9:30 a.m., is the third in five days involving a Baltimore police officer. It follows the shooting of a teenage boy running from police with a BB gun on Wednesday and the shooting of a 25-year-old man who appeared to have a bomb outside a television station.
In Sunday’s incident, the officer “perceived he was being ambushed,” Davis said. “Which is a really scary thing in police work, and it’s not the first time an American police officer in the last year or so has been ambushed.”