Baltimore Police released body camera footage Wednesday of an encounter last month at a business in South Baltimore’s Fairfield Area that led to a man dying and a police officer being wounded.
The video, which is graphic in nature and contains profanity, shows a group of officers approaching the man, identified as 39-year-old Anthony Ferguson, and confronting him May 24 over an incident four days prior during when, police said, he discharged a gun. Ferguson, who police said was at work and on a break when officers approached him at about 10:25 p.m., eventually pulls a handgun from his waistband and exchanges gunfire with officers.
An officer, identified as Detective Nicholas Wellems, suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the shootout with Ferguson, who died at a hospital.
Baltimore Police, along with the Maryland attorney general’s office’s Independent Investigations Division, are investigating the shooting on the 3400 block of South Hanover Street. The police department released the footage shortly after showing it to media outlets at a Wednesday news conference.
