About five hours into the standoff, Gaines pointed her gun directly at an officer and said, “If you don’t leave, I’m going to kill you”, police said. Her five-year-old Kodi was wounded but will survive, though who can even imagine the psychological trauma he will endure. “We do not know at this moment in time if the round was sacked by our weapons or the weapons possessed by Ms. Gaines”. The police chief said county police based their de-activation request on the fact that there was a barricade involving someone with a gun, and that a child was present.
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Three officers went to Gaines’ apartment in Randallstown about 9:20 a.m.to serve arrest warrants on her and a man, according to police.
“We are of course extremely upset at an event like this”, police spokeswoman Elise Armacost said at press conference.
Police chief James Johnson told reporters: “We discharged one round at her. In return, she fired several rounds back at us”. A doctor who examined Gaines found that she continued to display “signs of neurocognitive impairment”, and “lost significant IQ points as a result of that exposure”, The Washington Post’s Peter Hermann found. After she was born in 1992, she tested high in lead levels from April 1993 to November 1994, court records show.
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Police called for backup and a standoff began that lasted until 4 p.m. That’s when Gaines threatened officers, reports say.
Gaines was hit several times and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said she had been pulled over because she had a cardboard tag instead of a licence plate.
“When you put your hands on me, I promise you will have to murder me”, she said in one of the videos.
Police should have “taken a different approach and use every tool available which is us”.
Gaines was considered a strong role model for her family and her friends, her many social media posts show.
“Do you want to go out there?” she asks later.
It is not clear whether the police department, which is phasing in body cameras for officers, have footage of the incident. He left the apartment with a 1-year-old child and was arrested.
After hearing a man and woman talking inside and the sound of a child crying, police obtained a key to the apartment from the landlord and opened the door to find Ms Gaines pointing a shotgun with one arm and holding her son in the other.
The man, Kareem Courtney, 39, was wanted on an assault warrant, while the woman, Korryn Shandawn Gaines, 23, was wanted on a bench warrant for failing to appear in court to face “an array of traffic charges”, police have said.
The officers will be placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings, according to police. The Facebook account was deactivated during the standoff.
During the stop, Gaines resisted arrest and threw out the citations issued by the officer. That’s when the officer shot at the woman, police said, and Gaines fired two shots, but didn’t strike any officer. My niece is a good person; I never knew her to be a rowdy person, he told the Baltimore Sun.
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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. How, many people asked, can people rush to defend a woman who endangered her child by threatening police with a weapon when a child was in the home?
