Suspect Taken to Shock Trauma After Police Chase Began in Edgewater Thursday Morning

UPDATED 2:30 p.m. Thursday: The police chase that started in Edgewater ended in the Highlands section of Baltimore on Thursday. That is where police shot a 19-year-old man who is a suspect in an armed robbery in the Arbutus/Catonsville area of Baltimore County, according to a media release from Baltimore County Police spokesman Louise Rogers-Feher.

The incident remains under investigation and no charges have been filed.

It all started a little after 11 a.m. on Thursday in Edgewater, when Anne Arundel County Police identified a car in the Edgewater Wawa parking lot that matched the description of one used in an overnight robbery.

Anne Arundel County police officers tried to stop the car, but the driver didn’t stop. Instead, he led police on a chase that went through Edgewater on Solomons Island Road to northbound Interstate 97, where Maryland State Police joined in the pursuit.

Along I-97, police say that the suspect showed a gun out of the window.

As the car began to come into the outskirts of Baltimore, four jurisdictions were in pursuit: Baltimore County Police, Anne Arundel County Police, Maryland State Police, and Baltimore City Police. 

Around the Arbutus area, the report said that the suspect got off the interstate and drove into a residential area near Wilkens Avenue where he hit an Anne Arundel County Police cruiser. Then, the driver got out of his car holding a handgun. He threw the gun down and then tried to pick it back up.

The report said that is when “a Baltimore County officer and an Anne Arundel County officer discharged their service weapons, striking the suspect in the lower body.”

The driver was taken to the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

The driver of the police car that was hit was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

UPDATED 1:03 p.m. Thursday: Maryland State Police confirmed the police chase that began in Edgewater ended in Baltimore County on Thursday afternoon.

The suspect was taken to the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.

Original article: Anne Arundel County police responded to a call to check an occupied vehicle at an Edgewater Wawa this morning and the driver drove off to lead police on a chase that is ongoing, police said.

Police received a call from another agency that an armed-robbery suspect was in the area of the Wawa located on Solomons Island Road, according to police spokesman Justin Mulcahy. When police located the 2004 Chevrolet Malibu, the driver pulled off and eventually got onto Interstate 97 heading north.

The Maryland State Police are assisting county officers with the chase, which is ongoing, Mulcahy said.

This article will be updated as more information becomes available.