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Two officers killed in lunchtime shooting at a Md. Panera Bread | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
Two Harford County sheriff’s deputies were killed in Maryland on Wednesday by an armed man who entered a Panera restaurant at lunchtime. | |
The suspect was fatally shot by authorities after he shot the two deputies. | |
Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler announced the deaths of the two members of his department Wednesday afternoon. | |
“They’re both two outstanding deputies who served the citizens of this county for 16 and 30 years respectively,” Gahler said. | |
He did not identify the deputies, since he said that their extended families had not been notified of their deaths. | |
The sheriff’s office identified the suspect as David Brian Evans, 67. They said that he was wanted on a warrant from Florida for assaulting a police officer there, as well as a civil writ issued in Harford County. | |
Gahler said that Evans entered a Panera in Abingdon during the busy lunchtime rush Wednesday. At 11:46 a.m., someone called police to say that Evans was acting suspiciously in the restaurant. | |
When a deputy arrived, Evans shot the deputy and then ran out the door. | |
“I think the suspect took that action because he was wearing a police uniform,” Gahler said of the deputy who was shot. “He certainly targeted him.” | |
Citizens who saw Evans running away pointed authorities in the right direction, sheriff’s office spokeswoman Cristie Kahler said. | |
Gahler said that a deputy found Evans almost immediately, down the hill from the restaurant. Evans then shot that deputy too. | |
Two more deputies who arrived next then fired at the suspect, fatally wounding the man. Both have been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates the shooting. | |
Gahler said that no one who was inside the Panera, which was full of lunchtime diners, was hurt during the incident. He said authorities were interviewing everyone in the restaurant before allowing them to leave. | |
He said that the sheriff’s office has had contact with Evans before, but he did not provide further information. |