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WEBVTT INTO WASNOT HIS.AS YOU MENTIONED, IT WAS 4:30THIS MORNING.>> I HEARD SOMEBODY VERYSHOUTING, NOISE, VERY NOISY.JAYNE: LIKE THEY WERE YELLING?>> YES.SOMETHING LIKE THAT.JAYNE: FOR SANDY WONG AND HERNEIGHBORS, IT WAS A STARTLINGWAKE UP CALL.A MAN SHOT BY POLICE ON ANOTHERWISE QUIET RESIDENTIALSTREET.IT HAPPENED AFTER POLICE WERECALLED FOR A MAN TRYING TO STEALA CAR.THIS WOMAN, WHO DID NOT WANT TOBE IDENTIFIED, SAYS HER HUSBANDIS THE ONE WHO MADE THE CALL.>> MY HUSBAND CAME OUTSIDE ANDTHERE WAS A MAN IN THE MIDDLE OFTHE STREET.HE LIT A CIGARETTE AND WENT OVERTO A CAR AND OPENED THE DOOR AGOT IN.WE KNEW IT WASN'T HIS CAR.WE KNEW WHOSE CAR IT WAS.JAYNE: WHEN POLICE ANSWERED, THEWOMAN SAYS THE MAN TRIED TOHIDE.SHE LOST SIGHT OF HIM BUT HEARDWHAT HAPPENED NEXT.>> WE HEARD HIM SCREAMING GET ONTHE GROUND, GET ON THE GROUNDAND THEN WE HEARD TWO SHOTS.JAYNE: POLICE SAY THE OFFICERFIRED BECAUSE THE MAN REACHEDFOR HIS WAISTBAND, AND IGNOREDCOMMANDS.>> BASED ON WHAT THIS OFFICERSAW HE DID FIRE HIS WEAPONMULTIPLE TIMES AT THE SUSPECT.JAYNE: WHERE WAS THE GUN FOUND?>> THE GUN WAS FOUND ON THEGROUND NEXT TO THE SUSPECT.IT WAS A LOADED HANDGUN.IT'S ACTUALLY SEEN IN THE HANDOF THE SUSPECT WHEN THE SUSPECTIS STRUCK BY THE OFFICER'SWEAPON.JAYNE: THE OFFICER'S BODY CAMERACAPTURED THE SHOOTING.THAT VIDEO IS NOT BEINGRELEASED.THIS IS THE SECOND SHOOTING BYBALTIMORE COUNTY POLICE IN AMONTH.ON MARCH 13 THEY SHOT 3 ARMEROBBERY SUSPECTS WHEN THEY SAY ACAR WAS USED TO TRY TO RUN DOWNOFFICERS.ONE OF THOSE MEN DIED.IN THIS CASE, THE CAR THEFTSUSPECT IS EXPECTED TO SURVIVERIGHT BEHIND ME IS THE GUY WHOOWNS THIS TRUCK AND HIS FATHERCHECKING IT OUT BECAUSE IT WASHERE SOME MORNING DOES THISMORNING WHEN THE SHOOTINGOCCURRED.

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Baltimore County police shot and wounded a car theft suspect early Wednesday morning in the Parkville area.Download the WBAL app.Police said a 27-year-old was shot by an officer around 4:30 a.m. in the area of Hillendale and Northview roads.Police said officers arrived in the area on a call of someone breaking into cars. The people who called police said there have been a number of break-ins in the area recently.A woman, who did not want to be identified, said her husband called 911. "My husband came outside and there was a man in the middle of the street, lit a cigarette and went over to a car and opened the door and got in. We knew it wasn't his car. We knew whose car it was," the woman said.Officers who arrived at the scene said they saw a man trying to conceal himself, turning his back toward the officer, police said.The officer approached the man and called out to him. As the officer walked toward him, the man turned around and reached for a gun inside the waistband of his pants, police said. Police said the officer saw the man reach for the gun and yelled for him to stop. The man continued to pull the gun and the officer fired multiple shots from his service weapon, police said. "We heard (the officer) screaming, 'Get on the ground, get on the ground,' and then we heard two shots," the woman said.The man was shot in the lower body and a handgun was recovered at the scene, police said. The man did not fire at the officer, police said."Based on what this officer saw, he did fire his weapon multiple times at the suspect. The gun was found on the ground next to the suspect. It was a loaded handgun. It was actually seen in the hand of the suspect when the suspect is struck by the officer's weapon," Baltimore County police spokesman Cpl. Shawn Vinson said.Police said the man who was shot was taken to Shock Trauma for treatment. His condition is unknown, but police said he is expected to survive.Police said they are conducting an investigation into the incident and will submit the case to the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office for their review as is typical in such cases.The officer's body camera captured the shooting. "For this shooting, it won't be released right now. Once the chief makes a decision, along with the State's Attorney's Office, to release the video, they will at that time. (It's) crucial to investigation not to release it yet," Vinson said.This is the second shooting by police in Baltimore County in a month. County police shot three armed robbery suspects, one of them fatally, on March 13.Stay with wbaltv.com, the mobile app and 11 News for the latest on this story.Also on WBALTV.com: