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BALTIMORE (AP) — An armed man wanted on robbery and kidnapping charges in North Carolina fatally shot himself without warning Tuesday after police officers found him at a Baltimore home, Maryland State Police said.
The Georgia man died Tuesday at Johns Hopkins Hospital, troopers said in a news release. They say officers spotted a vehicle he was also accused of stealing outside the home. They surrounded the home, announced their presence and said they had an arrest warrant for him.
Officers in an alley saw him come out a back door, ordered him to surrender, and saw him shoot himself.
The man, who had previously lived Baltimore, was wanted in Greensboro, North Carolina, for stealing the vehicle, robbery with a deadly weapon, home invasion, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon on a law enforcement officer after ramming police cars during a pursuit on April 21.
The Greensboro Police Department contacted the Maryland State Apprehension Team, a multi-jurisdictional unit, in the past week because the man used to live in Baltimore.
The team found the stolen sport utility vehicle about 10 a.m. Tuesday, parked behind a home in the city's Ramblewood neighborhood. Police said officers from the team, wearing badges and clothing marked "Police," surrounded the home. They knocked on the front door, according to the statement.
The man came out minutes later through a back door, holding a handgun, the statement said, and officers in the alley told him to surrender as he stood on a small porch.
"Without warning, the fugitive lifted the handgun he was holding and shot himself," the statement said.
An ambulance was immediately called and he was taken to the hospital, where he died shortly before noon, according to the statement. State police said there's no evidence that any officers fired their weapons and described the man's death as an "apparent suicide."
No one else was in the home. Police said they don't know why he was there.
The Baltimore Police Department's Special Investigation Response Team is investigating the man's death, which state police said is procedure in such a case, and is interviewing the officers who were there.
The team, which looks for fugitives, includes state troopers, members of the U.S. Marshals Service and officers from the Baltimore city, Baltimore County and Howard County police departments.
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