Officer Shoots Wanted Driver in Clarksville: Police

CLARKSVILLE, MD — A call about a suspicious vehicle Friday morning in Howard County ended with an officer-involved shooting that injured a wanted Prince George's County man, according to police.

Tremayne Middleton Dorsey, 38, of Temple Hills, was in critical condition at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center after police said he drove his vehicle at an officer, who shot him once.

Officials are still working to determine why the Prince George's County man was in the Clarksville neighborhood, where they responded in the middle of the night because of the location he parked his car.

At 3:15 a.m., a resident in the 7200 block of Fawn Crossing Drive alerted authorities that a suspicious vehicle was parked in his driveway.

An officer arrived, found nobody in the vehicle and called a tow truck, according to officials.

At 4:30 a.m. a man began walking toward the car and said he was the driver, police said.

"The officer learned that the man was wanted in an open arrest warrant related to an auto theft case. The man then jumped into the car and drove directly at the officer, who fired one shot, striking the suspect," the Howard County Police Department said in a statement.

Dorsey was in critical but stable condition at shock trauma, police said.

The officer, a 10-year veteran of the department, was not injured.

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PREVIOUS REPORT — A driver who nearly hit a police officer with a vehicle is in critical condition Friday morning after the officer opened fire, according to the Howard County Police Department.

There was a warrant out for the arrest of the driver, who encountered the officer in the 7200 block of Fawn Crossing Drive in Clarksville, police said.

The officer was uninjured in the incident, officials reported, while the suspect was hospitalized in critical but stable condition from the shooting.