Baltimore County Police Fatally Shoot Korryn Gaines; Boy, 5, Hurt

Throughout this barricade, the woman repeatedly pointed her long gun at officers and made threatening remarks, Armacost said.

The shooting began after police went to serve arrest warrants on her and a man in the suburb of Randallstown.

Monday morning (Aug. 1), Baltimore police officers entered Korryn Shandawn Gaines’ apartment building with the intent of carrying out arrest warrants on Gaines and an unidentified male. Meanwhile, Gaines had had failed to appear in court over several traffic charges, including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after being stopped by police last March. The man, who has yet to be identified, was wanted for assault. The suit identifies Gaines’ father as Ryan Gaines, a police dispatcher.

When police arrived, they attempted to gain entry to the apartment using keys given to them by the landlord. Around 3:00 p.m., according to Baltimore’s ABC 2, Gaines again pointed the gun at an officer, and said, “If you don’t leave, I’m going to kill you”.

Authorities have not said whether officers or Gaines shot the boy.

According to RT, Gaines had frequently filmed police and it is now unknown as to whether or not the officers were wearing body cameras during the incident.

The names of the officers involved will not be revealed until 48 hours have passed since the incident, as per police union agreements, according to the Baltimore Sun. Gaines returned fire, firing two shots.

Facebook has restored Gaines’ social media pages, but a pair of videos that violated Facebook’s standards have been blocked from public view. While an officer can be heard in the background asking her to step out, Gaines prompts the boy, “What are they trying to do?”

A mother who allegedly threatened police with a shotgun has been shot dead in the U.S. during a raid over driving offences. Investigators have not determined if the child was shot by police or by Gaines.

They waited outside the door for about 10 minutes, Baltimore County police Chief Jim Johnson said during a Monday press conference. It is unknown who fired the round that hit the child, and the relationship between the adults and the children was not immediately known.

Tactical officers said they saw Gaines point the shotgun at the child several times, but aren’t sure if it was deliberate or incidental.

“It was a awful situation to have the little boy in the house with her, her son, who is at the hospital”, Andre Brady, a relative of Gaines’ relative, told WBAL.

One of the videos showed an officer inside her home.

Gaines’ warrant was for a March traffic incident where Gaines was pulled over with a “Free Traveler” cardboard sign in place of a license plate.

Gaines’s uncle, Jerome Barnett, 44, called his niece ‘feisty, but smart and respectful’.

This is the county’s third officer-involved shooting so far this year, and the first fatal officer-involved shooting of 2016.