COCKEYSVILLE, Md. — The manhunt continues for a gunman who allegedly shot a police officer in Cockeysville Wednesday afternoon.
Baltimore County Police were initially called to a home in the 10000 block of Powers Avenue for a person in crisis.
As police entered the home, 24-year-old David Emory Linthicum reportedly opened fire striking and injuring an officer. The wounded officer was later released from the hospital.
At first police reported that Linthicum barricaded himself inside the home, setting up a SWAT Team response.
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It was later determined he fled the scene prompting a massive search and road closures.
Still on the loose, Linthicum is considered armed and dangerous.
As a precaution several Baltimore County Schools were closed Thursday including Cockeysville Middle School, Dulaney High School, Mays Chapel Elementary School, Padonia International Elementary School, Pot Spring Elementary School, and Warren Elementary school.
A shelter-in-place advisory still remains in place for the immediate area.
"They said it was a stay in your house, and fortunately, I wasn't home," said Ray Haynes, the suspect's neighbor. "My wife wasn't home and my daughter was up from Ocean City, and they wouldn't let us up here until like 11 o'clock, my mother-in-law is living here with us and she's got dementia. She's 85 years-old and we were kind of worried about her naturally, but I don't know. It's just kind of crazy."
BcoPD with MSP an other jurisdictions canvassing the area looking for David Emory Linthicum who allegedly injured a BcoPD Officer February 8th .@HagerfromWMAR @WMAR2News has a LIVE UPDATE tonight c pic.twitter.com/KqnPMCDI2W
— manny locke (@realmannynation) February 9, 2023
According to online court records Linthicum pleaded guilty in 2019 to drug possession with intent to distribute. He was ultimately sentenced to probation before judgement.
The house Linthicum currently lives in where the shooting occurred, is the same location where then 16-year-old Nicholas Browning shot and killed his parents and two brothers in February of 2008.
Browning is currently serving four consecutive life sentences behind bars.
