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Baltimore County Police say they shot a person in Dundalk on Thursday afternoon after a vehicle rammed a department car.

Detectives were in the area of Maryland and Avon avenues attempting to arrest two people in connection to a 2021 homicide, police spokeswoman Joy Stewart said Thursday, when a Nissan Infiniti on the scene “began to ram into one of our officer’s vehicles.”

At least one officer fired into the car, hitting a person. That individual was taken to the hospital and their condition is unknown, police said. He or she was not identified by police.

Stewart said five officers were on the scene during the incident and have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. Police did not say how many officers fired their weapons.

No officers were injured.

Stewart said the person shot was not one of the two suspects police were looking to arrest. One of those suspects was later arrested. Police did not say whether the person shot by police was armed.

The shooting occurred at the end of a street in a neighborhood tucked behind Broening Highway.

Crime scene tape roped off two houses with multiple cars parked out front, including a white Porsche and two sedans damaged from an apparent collision.

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Stewart said the two houses were related to the arrests but declined to give further information.

Out front, the bumper of one black sedan was on the ground, its windshield cracked. A police barricade shield sat on the car as police investigators inspected the scene.

No officers were injured during today’s incident in Dundalk.

Jeanette Bordeaux, a neighbor, said her son was playing outside around 1 p.m. when she heard five to six gunshots.

She rushed outside and saw a man on the ground, and said police cars converged quickly. The man was then loaded into an ambulance.

Bordeaux described the neighborhood as quiet and the two low-rise buildings near where the shooting occurred as an apartment complex.