Prince George's police officer fired his duty weapon after confrontation with man who had a gun in a car.
Authorities have taken a man into custody who they say fled from Prince George’s County police following an altercation in Lanham that ended with an officer firing his service weapon.Police Chief Malik Aziz
The officers were not injured, Aziz said, and the officer who shot at the man has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by internal affairs, which is standard department protocol.The altercation between the man and the officers began just before 9 a.m., when a resident on Hickory Hill Avenue called 911 about a car parked outside on the street. The person inside, the caller told police, had been honking their horn for two hours.
At the same time, police said, the officer on the driver’s side of the vehicle was also trying to take the man into custody. After the gun on the passenger seat discharged, police said the officer on the driver’s side of the vehicle fired his service weapon. When asked how many times the officer fired his gun, Aziz said he did not know.Then the man inside sped away. Aziz said the officers briefly chased the man before losing sight of him.
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