BALTIMORE, MD — A person of interest in an early October armed robbery was killed by police in northeast Baltimore Wednesday morning, officials said. The deadly encounter happened in the parking lot of the Rite Aid on York Road.

A detective received a tip about a vehicle used in an Oct. 9 armed robbery at Horseshoe Casino, according to Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, who said northern district officers were called to follow up on the lead. The first arriving officer found the vehicle in the Rite Aid parking lot around 9:30 a.m. and told the driver to get out, according to Harrison. The driver complied, and the officer learned while interviewing him that he was a person of interest in the casino robbery.

The man was later identified as John Feggins, 24, of Philadelphia, according to WBAL. As a second officer was arriving, the man lunged at the officer "with a gun in his hand," Harrison said. Both were taken to the ground in a scuffle and struggled on the ground for several minutes, the commissioner reported.

The two struggled on the ground as the officer tried to disarm him, the commissioner reported. "As he was standing up outside of the car, he perhaps had his own gun and you see that a struggle ensued...over that gun," Harrison said. "We have recovered the gun we believe was that suspect's gun."

Another officer arrived, and both law enforcement officials shot their weapons "to prevent further harm," Harrison said, explaining they did not want the man to shoot himself or anyone else in the area.



At some point, "somewhat out of the camera's sight," he said both officers fired their guns. The man was shot and taken into custody, and he was pronounced deceased, according to Harrison. He was not publicly identified.

Both officers had minor injuries, Harrison said at a press conference about the police-involved shooting Wednesday afternoon. They will be assigned administrative duties pending the outcome of the investigation, he said. "We do have contact with at least one witness that we know of," he continued, stating authorities reviewed several videos as part of the probe into the police-involved shooting.