Two Law Enforcement Officers Shot While Serving Warrant in Baltimore

Two Baltimore police officers were shot and injured and a suspect was killed on Tuesday morning near a mall in the Baltimore area, the Associated Press reported.

A U.S. Marshals task force served a warrant outside Security Square Mall in Woodlawn when the shooting occurred, Baltimore County police spokesperson Joy Stewart said. The officers were taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center with injuries not thought of as life-threatening.

The suspect was hospitalized elsewhere but police tweeted shortly after that the suspect was dead.

For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.

A large section of the parking lot at the mall was cordoned off with crime tape as officers collected evidence surrounding a pickup truck, which had bullet holes in the driver's side window and windshield. Some two dozen police officers, paramedics and other officials gathered at the entrance to the Tokyo Seafood Hibachi Grill & Sushi, and a police helicopter hovered above the area.

The rest of the sprawling shopping mall complex was largely open to the public Tuesday morning.

Baltimore's police commissioner went to the medical center's shock trauma unit, where the wounded officers were being treated. Their status was not immediately clear.

The wounded city officers have served on the U.S. Marshals Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force, which apprehends fugitives in the Washington, D.C., and Baltimore area, generally for violent crimes.

In February, a deputy U.S. marshal was shot and wounded, and a suspect was killed, during an exchange of gunfire as law enforcement officials tried to arrest the man, who was wanted for alleged attempted murder and robbery, in Baltimore.