Three Edgewood area schools were locked down for approximately one hour Wednesday afternoon while authorities searched for a subject they said was interrupted while attempting to break into a local home.
Deerfield Elementary, Edgewood Middle School, and Edgewood High School were placed in lockdown shortly after 1:30 p.m. today, according to Harford County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Edward Hopkins, and students who were outside for physical education classes were instructed to go inside. The lockdowns were lifted just after 2:30 p.m.
According to police, at approximately 1:30 p.m. a 36-year-old resident of the 200 block of Oak Street was in the process of walking out of the rear of his residence when he confronted a black male described as being in his 20s, 5-feet, 8-inches tall and of thin build wearing a black shirt and blue jeans, who was starting to open the home’s rear door in an apparent attempted burglary. The suspect kicked the homeowner in the knee and fled on foot.
The suspect was later reported running on foot to a wooded area near a set of railroad tracks in the area. Sheriff’s Office deputies including K-9 units and Maryland State Police aviation engaged in a search of the area but were unable to locate the suspect, Hopkins said.
The homeowner was treated at the scene by medical personnel and later transported to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center for a knee injury.
Should have allowed him to come on in & introduced him to Mr Smith & Wesson.
Or the Judge!
State Police Aviation engaged in the search! Is that one of the new multi-million dollar state of the art helicopters? Too bad, if we only had the 10 cent Bane-a-Copter up, this guy would have never escaped.
FWIW, a pilot who flies Trooper 1 out of Martin State Airport told me recently that Baltimore will be the last station to get the new megabuck Omalleycopters. We’ll be flying the old dolphins for at least another year or two.
See if this scumbag had only been at home trying to log into Healthcare.Gov home Burglaries and vandalism would be null and void for the foreseeable future. 100% drop in crime stats for burglary.
On a serious note… there has to be more to this story. All these resources for an attempted burglary. Especially if he kick the guy and left (no word of weapons). Am I missing something or is this just the start of the new Fiscal Year and we have to put some hours on the whirly birds. Don’t get me wrong, if this is the response from now on for burglaries…sign me up! Might I suggest a swat team and peacekeepers too!
If he would have tried to break into my home they would have been carrying his ass out in a plastic bag.
Product of HCPS?
They locked the schools down to keep the burglar safe from the young thugs in training… #edgehood