5-Year-Old Was Injured by Police in Randallstown Standoff: Officials

RANDALLSTOWN, MD — The 5-year-old boy caught in the crossfire when his mother was fatally shot in a police standoff this week was struck by an officer's bullet, authorities reported Friday.

Initially, police said it was unclear whether an officer or the boy's mother had been responsible for shooting the child, who suffered injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.

A procedure performed Friday at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center verified that Kodi Gaines, 5, was shot in the left cheek with a round fired by a tactical officer, police said.

The boy's mother — Korryn Gaines, 23 — threatened the tactical officer with a Mossberg shotgun and threatened to kill him during a barricade situation in the unit block of Sulky Court in Randallstown, police said.

The tactical officer is not being identified due to an "unprecedented number of threats against police, including threats and actions against specific officers and officials," according to a statement from the Baltimore County Police Department.

The standoff started at approximately 9:40 a.m. Monday when officers arrived at the residence to serve arrest warrants for Korryn Gaines, 23, and her boyfriend, Kareem K. Courtney, 39.

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Police had arrived at the apartment to serve Gaines with a "failure to appear" bench warrant stemming from charges filed in a March 10 traffic stop when officials pulled over her Toyota Camry because it had no license plate.

Instead, the vehicle displayed a piece of cardboard with this message: "Any government official who compromises this pursuit to happiness and right to travel, will be held criminally responsible and fined, as this is a natural right to freedom."

When officers encountered Gaines at the Randallstown residence, the deadly confrontation ended around 3 p.m. after police said she pointed a shotgun at a tactical officer and threatened to shoot him.

Authorities said there was an exchange of gunfire between an officer and Gaines, who fired two rounds from the shotgun, but did not strike police.

Patch Editor Deb Belt contributed to this article.