Great Instincts Demonstrated By Anne Arundal County Officer!

Arundel Digest
Published 07/15/09

Officer shoots unruly husband in home

ARNOLD - A county police officer shot and wounded a man Sunday night after he allegedly threatened to strike another officer with a chair.
It was the fourth time this year officers have fired their weapons in the line of duty.
On Sunday, two officers arrived about 9 p.m. at a home in the 1000 block of Deep Creek Avenue at the request of Anne Arundel Medical Center. The man's wife left the emergency room without being treated for unspecified injuries earlier in the day.
The woman's husband told officer to leave. They tried to subdue the 51-year-old man with pepper spray and a Taser.
He then picked up a chair and raised it toward one of the officers, prompting Officer Dwayne Raiford, a four-year veteran, to shoot the man once, police said.
Michael Anthony Housley was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with serious but not life-threatening injuries. Both officers were treated at AAMC for minor injuries.
Housley was charged with second-degree assault, failing to obey a lawful order and resisting arrest.
Since April, police have shot and killed an armed man in a hostage situation in Hanover, wounded a 16-year-old boy who repeatedly backed an SUV into an officer's car near Maryland City and killed an man who pointed a rifle at police during a standoff.