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A call for a domestic disturbance ends with one man dead

Howard County police
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UPDATE:

The Independent Investigations Division of the Maryland Office of the Attorney General has identified the decedent, and the Howard County Officers involved in the fatal shooting in Laurel on Saturday.

Tyree Winslow, 29, was found dead in the house. It's still not clear if he was shot by police or by his own gun.

The involved officers are both with the Howard County Police Department and are identified as Police Officer First Class Christopher Weir, a 14-year veteran, and PFC Joseph Debronzo, a 15-year veteran. Both officers are assigned to the Field Operations Division.

12/1:

A man is dead following a domestic disturbance in Laurel on Saturday.

Howard County police were called to a home on American Pharoah Lane just after 3 p.m. When they arrived there was a woman on an outside upper ledge of the house and a man at a window inside the home with a gun.

Police say they asked the man to drop the gun and when he refused, the man and two officers exchanged gunfire. Police formed a barricade outside the home and when they were unable to make contact with the man they went inside.

They found the man dead as well as shell casings from an unknown gun and several firearms.

It's not clear if the man died from the officers' shots or if he shot himself.

Three people were in the home and they were not injured. None of the officers were injured either.

The Maryland Attorney General's Independent Investigations Division is now investigating the incident.

The officers on scene were equipped with body-worn cameras, which recorded the incident.