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Man shot after firing at officer in traffic stop
April 22, 2008


A routine traffic stop in Brooklyn Park last night suddenly burst into an exchange of gunfire between a motorist who pulled a gun and an Anne Arundel County police officer, authorities said.
The motorist was shot, but the officer was not hit.
Shortly before 11 p.m., a Northern District police officer stopped a car on Franklin Avenue near Alley No. 7 for a traffic violation and was out of his patrol car when the motorist, who also was out of his car, pulled a handgun and fired at least one shot at the officer, police said.
The officer, whose name was not released, pulled out his semiautomatic handgun and fired at the man, hitting him at least once in the upper body, police said.
Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia, a spokesman for the county Fire Department, said the wounded man, believed to be in his mid-20s, was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma Center. His condition was not available, Tobia said.
[Richard Irwin
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