BALTIMORE _ Two people were taken into custody Friday after a massive search by Baltimore city and Baltimore County police in the Lansdowne area in connection with the shooting of an off-duty Baltimore officer who remains in critical condition, a city police spokesman said.
The search is part of the investigating into the shooting of off-duty Sgt. Isaac Carrington in Northeast Baltimore on Thursday, police spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert said. Carrington was shot in an attempted robbery outside his home in the northeast neighborhood of Frankford, police said.
At about 11:15 a.m. Friday morning, a Southern District officer on patrol saw a vehicle that looked similar to the description of the one allegedly driven by the suspect in the shooting, Silbert said. Police said previously they were looking for a vehicle, possibly an Acura, in connection with the shooting.
The officer attempted to pull the vehicle over, but it did not stop, he said.
The vehicle was later located in southwest Baltimore County.
"At this time we are not able to confirm this is the vehicle involved in the shooting," Silbert said.
After a search of the area, police said two people were taken into custody.
Carrington, a 22-year veteran of the department, was shot Thursday outside his home on Summerfield Avenue in Northeast Baltimore. Police said he was speaking to a neighbor when a car pulled onto the street and at least one masked male pulled out a gun and attempted to rob them.
The neighbor threw what he had to the ground and took off running, while Carrington began running in the opposite direction, police said. The gunman followed Carrington and shot him multiple times. Carrington was later taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Carrington is listed in critical condition, the hospital said.
On Friday, police searched in a wooded area on Park Drive before two people were taken into custody.
More than a dozen police cars had lined the street by noon as helicopters circled overhead. Officers wearing bulletproof vests and carrying rifles appeared to search the wooded residential area, and K-9 units were on the scene.
Among the crowd of bystanders was Dr. James Perkins, owner of Perkins Dental Care, which was surrounded by patrol cars, its parking lot cordoned off by crime scene tape.
Perkins said he stepped outside around lunchtime to see what was going on. The police presence was a bit disruptive to his practice Friday afternoon, he said, but he was hopeful police would apprehend the suspect they sought.
"(It's) more police than I've ever seen," he said.
Back in the officer's neighborhood in Frankford, a marked city police car was parked outside Carrington's home.
The officer's family remains at Shock Trauma. Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 President Sgt. Mike Mancuso said he's also been at the hospital with the officer's family.
