David Linthicum.Photo: Baltimore County Police Department/Twitter

David Linthicum arrested after police manhunt

A two-day manhunt for a suspect wanted in connection with shooting two police officers has ended in his arrest in Maryland.

“When officers arrived the family member, who phoned police, escorted officers to the subject,” they said. “David Linthicum began firing multiple rounds at officers. One officer was injured after being struck.”

Noting that the officer was treated at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center, the Baltimore County Police Department said, “The officer still has a lengthy recovery ahead of him.”

Local residents were forced to shelter in place during the search, officials said.Six area schools were closed Thursdayand after-school and recreational activities were canceled at more than a dozen locations. Fallston schools and activities were alsocanceledfor today.

Linthicum’s home has bullet holes in the windows, CBS News reported, adding to the terror neighbors felt.

David Linthicum.Julio Cortez/AP Photo

Police officers staff a checkpoint while searching for suspect Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, in Fallston, Md. A police officer was seriously injured in gunfire Thursday night amid a manhunt for a suspect who had wounded a different officer after firing at police the previous afternoon, officials said.

During a 6 a.m. press conference Friday, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said it was his understanding that the suspect took a Baltimore County Police vehicle on Thursday after shooting a second officer, a Baltimore County Police detective. The detective is now on life support.

“After being shot multiple times, the officer remains at Shock Trauma on life support,” the Baltimore County Police Department tells PEOPLE.

The arrest was made “successfully and peacefully,” authorities said.

Officials said the gunman got out of the car at the Fallston Mall but then disappeared into the woods and tried to hide in a rocky area to avoid police capture.

Linthicum had ammunition on him when he was arrested, and was wearing shorts and a sweatshirt, authorities said.

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Assisting on the scene were Harford County Sheriff’s Office, Baltimore County Police, Maryland State Police, FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

“Our community is safer with this individual in custody,” officials said.

source: people.com