Police Fatally Shoot Armed Man Experiencing 'Mental Health Episode': Authorities

DUNDALK, MD — Police said they fatally shot an armed man "experiencing a mental health episode" Sunday evening in Dundalk.

Officials have not yet released the names of the deceased and the officer involved.

Authorities said they were called around 7:30 p.m. to the 8200 block of N. Boundary Road and "made contact with the armed subject to the rear of the residence."

"During this encounter, the officer responded to the actions of the armed subject, resulting in one officer discharging their firearm striking the adult male," the Baltimore County Police Department said in a press release. "The subject was transported to a local hospital and was later pronounced deceased. A firearm was recovered from the scene."

Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown's Independent Investigations Division will investigate the case and determine if charges should be filed against the officer. This is normal protocol for all police-involved deaths.

"We recognized in these types of incidents, even the person who was the victim or the person who was shot, they have family members, and we empathize with them, and there are a lot of people involved," Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said, according to WJZ. "We knew it could make the community feel uneasy, but this was a very isolated incident, and there's no other threat to the community."

McCullough told WJZ there have been five officer-involved shootings in 2025.

"The thing I want to point out is the danger of the number of handguns that are on the street, the number of handguns that our officers are encountering," McCullough said, according to WJZ. "More and more people are armed with handguns or armed with a knife."

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This map shows the area where authorities said the most recent officer-involved shooting happened.