Anne Arundel County police release bodycam of a shooting at a 60-year-old woman who killed her cat

According to police, on March 28 at approximately 1:35 p.m., officers responded to a report of an armed subject in a residence in the 8600 block of Gambier Harbor in Pasadena. Responding officers received information that the subject had shot and killed a cat inside the residence.

Officers arrived at the residence and gave verbal commands to a 60-year-old woman, instructing her to come out of the house. The woman stepped outside, but then retreated into the house. The woman then exited the house armed with a handgun.

In the body camera footage, officers on scene can be heard giving repeated commands for the female suspect to drop the firearm, but the suspect did not comply with the commands. The suspect then raised the firearm in the direction of the officers.

According to police, fearing for their safety, officers discharged their departmentally-issued firearms, striking the suspect.

Police say the suspect was transported to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in critical condition. A firearm was recovered at the scene. A cat was located, deceased, inside the residence from an apparent gunshot wound(s).