Man Dead After Police Shooting In Laurel: Authorities

LAUREL, MD — A man is dead after police fired shots at him when he refused to drop the gun he was holding during a domestic disturbance in Laurel, according to authorities.

Howard County police responded around 3:10 p.m. Saturday to a house in the 10000 block of American Pharoah Lane where they found a female on an outside upper ledge and the man at a window in the home with a long gun, authorities said.

The person who called 911 said a man was banging at the home's front door. A preliminary investigation indicates the man fired several shotgun rounds at the front door and made his way inside the home through a window. When Howard County police officers arrived, the man appeared in a second-floor window of the home. Officers told the man to drop the weapon, but he refused to do so.

When the man repeatedly refused to drop the weapon, two officers fired, according to police, who then entered the house to find the man dead. Shell casings, several loaded firearms and a knife were recovered near the man. No one else was injured.

Three occupants were evacuated from the house unharmed and no officers were injured, according to police.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division is investigating the shooting, police said. The officers on scene were equipped with body-worn cameras, which recorded the incident. The IID will generally release body-worn camera footage within 20 business days of an incident.