CATONSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Authorities say a police officer working security at a Maryland grocery store fatally shot a shoplifting suspect as the officer was dragged by a vehicle.
Baltimore County police spokeswoman Officer Jen Peach said the officer was alerted early Tuesday to a man who stole laundry detergent and related items at Giant Food in Catonsville.
Peach says the officer confronted the man in the driver’s seat of a vehicle, shooting him as the officer was dragged 108 feet (33 meters). The man died at the scene. The officer wasn’t injured.
The officer wasn’t wearing a body camera, but Peach says investigators are reviewing surveillance video.
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She says the department doesn’t release races of officers or people shot.
Another man in the vehicle complained of pain and was taken to a hospital.