A man who appeared to be suffering from a “behavioral crisis” walked into the entrance of a Baltimore courthouse and shot himself in the head after authorities tried to interact with him near a security area, the city’s police commissioner said. The 35-year-old man was in critical condition in a hospital, Police Commissioner Richard Worley said, reports the Associated Press.. A bailiff shot the man in his lower extremities.
“As he went into the courthouse, it was clear he was suffering from a behavioral crisis,” Worley said at a news conference outside of the courthouse. “He was walking back and forth. As he entered, the sheriff’s deputies and the bailiffs tried to interact with him, and at some point he withdrew a firearm from his body, pointed it at his head.” Worley said sheriff’s deputies and bailiffs tried to get him to drop the weapon. Worley said the man did not get through the courthouse security system. It’s unclear why the man was at the Eastside District Court.