Around 9:20 Monday morning, three officers went to serve arrest warrants on a man and a woman in the Randallstown area of Baltimore County, Maryland.
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The arrest warrant for Gaines stemmed from a traffic stop that occurred back in March when she was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
A second video on Gaines’ Instagram account showed a heavily armored police officer standing at the door of her apartment.
When officers finally gained entry to Gaines’ apartment, they found her sitting on the floor, pointing a long gun at them, and they quickly retreated into the hallway.
Police were also there to serve a man at the same Randallstown apartment.
A Maryland woman holding her 5-year-old son was shot dead by police on Monday, when officers tried to arrest her for miscellaneous traffic violations.
During the 7-hour stand-off, police say Gaines used social media to broadcast the ongoing situation. He’s expected to survive. Gaines’ previously had no major criminal records.
“Tragically in this circumstance the child that was also in the dwelling was struck by a round”, Johnson said during a press conference.
It is not known if any of the officers were wearing body cameras at the time, which the department started using a few weeks ago.
Gaines reportedly returned fire, shooting the weapon twice, missing officers.
Witnesses on the scene saw numerous police cars, under cover officers and SWAT respond to the scene.
“We are of course extremely upset at an event like this”, police spokeswoman Elise Armacost told reporters. And while that’s all the video shows, it’s pretty clear that Korryn did not trust police, which could have been why she aimed a gun at the police officers who knocked on her door on August 1. The boy in the apartment with Gaines was shot in a limb and taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life-threatening.
“During that dialogue and conversation, she repeatedly pointed a long gun at the police officers”, he said.
Many have taken to social media to show anger over the killing.
About 3 p.m., Gaines pointed the long gun at officers and told them if they didn’t leave, “she was going to kill them”, Johnson said. The man, who has not been identified, was wanted for assault. The police then fired, according to Johnson, “one round” of ammunition at her.
Gaines’s uncle, Jerome Barnett, 44, called his niece ‘feisty, but smart and respectful’. They again held their fire, getting the man and baby safely away from the scene before arresting him peacefully. The names of the officers involved in the shooting were not released.
The Baltimore County Police Department said it was “not yet clear” whether any of the officers involved were equipped with body cameras, which are now being rolled out in the force.
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CNN affiliate WBAL reports that it is the county’s third officer-involved shooting of 2016, and the first fatal officer-involved shooting of the year.
