2 In Custody After Car Chase, Police Shooting Under Investigation

ROSEDALE, MD — One man is injured and an officer is on modified assignment following a police-involved shooting in Rosedale Tuesday morning, according to authorities. Police said the shooting took place about 7 miles from where officers were originally called about a theft.

Around 5 a.m., authorities were dispatched to a Walgreens store in the 9600 block of Harford Road where a man had allegedly taken items from the store, then left in a blue Chevrolet Tahoe.

An officer who saw and tried to stop the Tahoe was unsuccessful, and a pursuit ensued. A woman was driving and a man was the passenger, police said.

The pursuit continued to the westbound lane of Philadelphia Road near 65th Street, until the police cruiser and Tahoe collided on Philadelphia Road, police said, before a second collision occurred on Pulaski Highway.

The officer ran from his car to the suspect's SUV, where the driver refused orders to get out of the vehicle, at which point the officer fired his weapon multiple times at the SUV.

"We are in the process of [determining] what led to the officer using his weapon," Corporal Shawn Vinson told Patch Tuesday afternoon. "We were initially told that the suspect vehicle drove at the officer and the officer fired his weapon. Homicide detectives are conducting their investigation to determine what exactly happened leading up to the shooting."

Body camera footage and interviews of those involved will be part of the investigation, Vinson said.

After shots were fired, the driver kept going on Pulaski Highway, stopping ultimately near North Point Road.

A man and woman were reportedly taken into custody, and the man, who had been a passenger in the car, was shot multiple times in the upper body, police said. His injuries were not believed to be life-threatening, according to officials, who said the names of both suspects are not being released, pending charges.

Route 40 was closed in the area of 66th Street, and part of Route 7 was also closed Tuesday morning for the investigation.

Police Officer First Class McCain of Precinct 8, who has been with the department for 17.5 years, was identified as the officer involved. Police said he was involved in a fatal shooting on Aug. 1, 2017, and he was also involved in a nonfatal shooting in 2006. The investigation is ongoing.

Wow. In #Rosedale: The #BaltimoreCounty Police car hit by a shoplifting suspect which resulted in the officer shooting at the driver who was trying to run him over was the SAME CAR used by Ofcr Caprio before she was run over in May. pic.twitter.com/qejPusRaoe
— Mike Schuh WJZ (@MikeWJZ) July 3, 2018