RadioOnFire.com - BALTIMORE —Baltimore police have arrested a man who they said had a gun in west Baltimore at the scene where last week's unrest took place.
City police said officers arrested a man with a gun Monday afternoon at North and Pennsylvania avenues. There was no shooting, police said.
The area remains the center of attention as a result of the destruction a week ago. So when this incident took place Monday afternoon, rumors flew, tempers flared and police in riot gear moved in.
Eventually, Baltimore police Cmdr. Melvin Russell, a familiar face in the community, said a gun did discharge but it was not a gun that belonged to police. No one was shot.
"An adult black male was picked up on cameras and he was clearly armed with a handgun. Police came in. (There was a) very short, brief foot pursuit. He attempted to pull it out, there was a sound of a discharge, sound of a weapon discharging. The police never discharged any weapons. We checked him out, we finally stopped him, we got the weapon, it is a revolver, there are three cartridges and one of them was spent, meaning it has been fired. They had a medic that arrived, he did not want to go with the medic, he was checked out thoroughly by the medic and he has no injuries on his body whatsoever. He is not shot. He did not want to go with the (ambulance) but they took him anyway. We have the weapon, he's with the medic crew and our officers right now," Russell said.
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