Baltimore County Police detectives are investigating an officer involved shooting that happened early Thursday morning along Old Eastern Avenue and Harrison Avenue in Middle River.
An officer shot a suspect who was taken to the hospital. There is no word on the suspect's condition.
Baltimore County Police Corporal John Wachter says at around 2:00am an officer pulled over a vehicle that he suspected was involved in narcotics activity.
"The passenger exited the vehicle and started to walk towards Eastern Avenue and then stopped," said Wachter live on WBAL NewsRadio 1090. "The vehicle itself pulled around onto Harrison and put itself in a position roughly parallel with the officer;'s car. During an interaction between the officer and the passenger who exited the vehicle that passenger made a sudden movement towards his waistband that placed the officer in fear for his life."
The tweets go on to say that an officer stopped vehicle for suspected narcotics activity. Then, a passenger exited vehicle.
During interaction with officer, suspect made sudden movement to waistband area.
That suspect's sudden movement put officer in fear for his life with the officer claiming that he thought the suspect had a weapon. The officer shot the suspect at least one time.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested.
Wachter says the officer will be on routine administrative status while the incident is reviewed.
He says there was no weapon found, but he says police did recover narcotics from the scene.
Source WBAL
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