PREVIEW

Police Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department Pamela A. Smith updates the media on the police-involved shooting. Police were on patrol in the area of Bangor Street, Southeast. Police attempted to make contact with a suspect in the alley of an apartment complex, and the male ran from the police and pulled out a firearm and began firing multiple times towards police. Authorities returned fire, wounding the male suspect. The suspect was transported to the hospital and is currently in stable condition suffering from non-life threatening gunshot wounds, the shooting take place near the historic home of Frederick Douglass.