SWAT officer shoots Baltimore man threatening children with a knife

By Brian Seay

Baltimore police on the scene of the police involved shooting Friday morning in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood in Baltimore. (Photo: Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)
A man who barricaded himself in a Baltimore home and threatened two small children with a butcher knife was shot and killed by a SWAT team member Friday morning.
The 39-year-old man was homeless, but a family member let him spend the night at their home, according to the Baltimore Sun. The family called police around 6:45 a.m. and told them they thought the man was on drugs, and that he was “acting erratically.”
Responding officers said he brandished the knife toward a 4-year-old girl and a 1-year-old boy. They called in the SWAT team and tried to negotiate with the man for about an hour, but it all ended when a SWAT officer shot him, fearing for the lives of the children.
“Out of fear for the absolute safety of those children who had a knife in close proximity to them, on their bodies, being pointed at their bodies, officers were forced to fire a round,” said police spokesman T.J. Smith.
The children were not injured in the incident, nor were any other family members. Smith said the family was distraught by

Source: Guns.com