Soldier in Shootout with Police

(WJZ) BALTIMORE The chaos began just before 2 a.m. when a uniformed officer working overtime in a garage at the Marketplace downtown came across a group of four men fighting. The officer tried to break up the fight, even using mace on some of the men. That's when police say one of the men, 25-year-old Army Corporal Alexander Eugene Larkin, pulled out a 50 caliber desert eagle handgun and fired, missing the officer. The officer returned fire, killing Larkin."Detectives really want to know what made Alexander Larkin shoot a 50 caliber handgun at a Baltimore police officer who was just doing his job attempting to break up an altercation," said Officer Nicole Monroe.It's the latest in a number of police-involved shootings so far this year. Earlier this summer, two off-duty officers shot and killed a man they say was wielding a gun in the parking lot of a south Baltimore bar. In April, an officer shot a man that apparently tried to run him over during a traffic stop. Another man shot in his Wilmington Avenue home after he allegedly tried to attack officers. In May, police shot a suspect who pulled a gun on them in an alley on Bentalou Street.
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