BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Attorney General Anthony Brown announced that charges will not be filed in a deadly police-involved shooting that occurred in Baltimore in mid May.
On May 14 around 9:10 a.m., Baltimore City 911 dispatch received information that Louis Jackson was in the 800 block of S. Caton Avenue with a gun and that he wanted to kill himself, officials said.
Around 9:20 a.m., a Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officer was in his patrol vehicle at the intersection of S. Caton Avenue and Wilkens Avenue.
When that officer began to drive westbound on Wilkens Avenue, he radioed dispatched that a person, later identified as Jackson, had shot at his patrol vehicle with a small revolver.
Authorities said that the officer activated his body-worn camera, drove further down the block, and made a U-turn.
He stopped his patrol vehicle and told dispatch that Jackson was coming towards him.
Another BPD officer in the area also responded to the scene.
The first officer issued multiple commands for Jackson to get on the ground, and Jackson did not comply and ran towards the officer while pointing a gun in his direction.
Both officers fired their weapons, striking Jackson.
Police rendered medical aid until emergency medical services arrived on scene.
Jackson was transported to Saint Agnes Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Authorities recovered a gun on scene.
The Baltimore Police Department released the bodycam footage from the shooting just over a week after it occurred in May.
The Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division concluded its investigation on August 4, and determined that the officers did not commit a crime under Maryland law.
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