Five people were stabbed at a Baltimore-area shopping center on Saturday, and the attacker was fatally shot by police officers, the authorities said.

The stabbing victims’ injuries were not life-threatening. The attacker, a man, was not publicly identified, Officer Jennifer Peach, a spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Police Department, said at a news conference.

Officer Peach said the police were first called about 1:45 p.m., about a person who was acting aggressively inside a liquor store at the mall.

Initial reports were that he was threatening people with a boxcutter. Officials recovered a hunting-type knife with a three-inch blade that was used in the attack, she said.