By Luke Parker
Baltimore Sun
DUNDALK, Md. — A Dundalk man fired several gunshots at a Baltimore County Police officer before he was struck and killed last month by law enforcement, according to body-camera footage released Wednesday afternoon.
The May 18 footage, published online by the Maryland Attorney General’s Office’s Independent Investigations Division, shows Glenn Pettie Jr . shoot at Officer Michael Brady shortly after Brady and another officer responded to a reported mental health crisis on the 8200 block of North Boundary Road .
After knocking on the front door of the house, a witness told Brady over the phone to try around the back, the video shows. When he goes into the alley behind the home, Brady sees Pettie and another man standing at a door. The second man then steps away, talking in the direction of Pettie before the Dundalk man opens fire, first with one gunshot and then several, according to the footage.
Demanding Pettie drop his weapon and surrender outside, Brady returns fire, taking cover behind a trash can and a car as people run away in the background. While the shooting is happening, a woman can be heard screaming “Oh, my God,” over and over.
Brady instructs a woman to get out of the car as he fires behind it, but it is not clear whether the woman yelling is the same person.
Eventually, Brady sees Pettie step out from inside the house. Yelling at Pettie to come to him, Brady runs toward the door and leads the heavily bleeding man to the ground. At this point, the second officer, who was standing at the front of the house when the gunshots started, comes into the backyard to help detain Pettie.
“Hold on, sir. We’re going to get you help,” Brady tells Pettie.
Pettie, 43, was taken to a hospital where he later died. He became the third armed person shot and killed by Baltimore County Police in less than a month.
“The thing that I want to point out is the danger in terms of the number of handguns that are on the street, the number of handguns that our officers are encountering more and more in these incidents, people are armed, whether armed with a handgun or armed with a knife,” Baltimore County Police Chief Robert McCullough said after the Dundalk shooting.
Both Brady and the second officer, who was not named in the video, were placed on administrative leave, police said.
The Independent Investigations Division, which investigates police incidents where someone is killed or seriously injured, typically releases body-camera footage within 20 business days of an event. On Tuesday, however, they delayed the release of the Dundalk video, explaining they sometimes need more time to redact information or allow family members and officers to view the footage.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the IID at (410) 576-7070 or by email at IID@oag.state.md.us.
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