BALTIMORE, MD — Police have identified the gunman and the worker he killed at a methadone clinic Monday morning in Baltimore. The shooter died in a gunfight with police. Two others — a Baltimore police sergeant and a woman working at the clinic — were injured, officials said.

Ashanti Pinkney, 49, who lived on West 20th Street, was reportedly the man who opened fire inside Man Alive, a drug treatment clinic in the 2100 block of Maryland Avenue, after 7 a.m. on Monday, July 15. He had been buzzed into the building, which had a secure entrance, before authorities were called at 7:09 a.m.



Pinkney had gone into the clinic with a gun and demanded methadone, according to The Baltimore Sun, which reported a friend he usually smoked a joint with beforehand said he seemed to have been acting differently that day, turning down marijuana and saying outlandish things at 6 a.m. He went on to kill David Caldwell, 52, who was working as a phlebotomist for LabCorp at the clinic, The Baltimore Sun reported.



Despite attempts by police to deescalate the situation, Pinkney fired at Sgt. Bill Shiflett, a 25-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, who was shot underneath his bulletproof vest. Shiflett was being treated at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said, where he was in stable condition. A 41-year-old woman who was working at the clinic was also injured, and she was treated at the hospital and released Monday, July 15, according to WJZ. How she became injured was unclear.

Police said that a weapon was recovered at the scene.



Caldwell, who reportedly lives in south Baltimore, had reportedly been concerned about his safety in the neighborhood where he was working. "He was a bit of a workaholic..he loved to work.." Family member describing 52 yr old Dave Caldwell, a phlebotomist killed Monday in shooting at methadone clinic in midtown Baltimore. Family said Caldwell worried about his safety around the clinic, not inside pic.twitter.com/rjfbJKcpbI

— Jayne Miller (@jemillerwbal) July 16, 2019 On Tuesday, officials told WBAL that Shifflett and another officer fired a gun in the shootout, and an autopsy would determine which one's bullet killed Pinkney.