Baltimore County Police: Woman Killed In Standoff After Brandishing Shotgun

[Purveyor]

By Eliott C. McLaughlin and Euan McKirdy, CNN
Updated 4:17 PM ET, Tue August 2, 2016

(CNN)An African-American woman was killed and a boy was injured during a standoff near Baltimore in which, police say, the woman aimed a shotgun at officers while holding the 5-year-old in one arm.

Around 9:20 Monday morning, three officers went to serve arrest warrants on a man and a woman in the Randallstown area of Baltimore County, Maryland.

The man, Kareem Courtney, 39, was wanted on an assault warrant, while the woman, Korryn Shandawn Gaines, 23, was wanted on a bench warrant for failing to appear in court to face "an array of traffic charges," police have said.

A search of Maryland court filings shows that police filed traffic and criminal charges separately against Gaines in relation to a March 11 traffic stop. An officer issued Gaines citations related to her vehicle registration, insurance and tags -- offenses that would have commanded at least $560 in fines -- and filed criminal charges stemming from the same traffic stop the next day, according to court records.

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1. Poor kid- Already was taught that the police are just there "trying to kill us"

Video from inside before the shooting...

And another video where she is apparently loading shotgun in front of him

korryn gaines Last moments video you didn't get to see #Blacklivesmatter to help

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2. all I know is

my heart is breaking for that baby boy. Beyond that I can make no sense of any of it. I just wish I could make it better for him.

[romanic]

9. I can only muster empathy for the kid.

He is going to be scarred from this. I just don't think his mother was wrapped tightly mentally.

[forgotmylogin]

3. Why go to the home to arrest someone for traffic tickets?

You mail them a bill, or take them in if they are pulled over.

[hack89]

6. "Kareem Courtney, 39, was wanted on an assault warrant" nt

[csziggy]

7. Sometimes people are a danger to those around them

And just traffic fines are no longer sufficient to keep them off the road.

The first time I was selected for a jury the woman was being charged criminally for her many speeding tickets. She had been pulled over numerous times for speeding through school zones even after she had lost her license to drive and had been fined hundreds, if not thousands of dollars. She was a danger to every child in those school zones and finally the prosecutor decided to take it up to the maximum.

She refused to plead until she was brought into court on the trial day, then she finally accepted a plea deal. The jury was never taken into the courtroom. We sat around for hours while the plea was finalized and the woman was taken to jail. That is when the court clerk came in to tell us we were done and explained what had happened.

The story linked in the OP said:

A search of Maryland court filings shows that police filed traffic and criminal charges separately against Gaines in relation to a March 11 traffic stop. An officer issued Gaines citations related to her vehicle registration, insurance and tags -- offenses that would have commanded at least $560 in fines -- and filed criminal charges stemming from the same traffic stop the next day, according to court records.

She was originally pulled over for driving without a license plate, Baltimore County police Chief Jim Johnson told reporters Tuesday. In place of a tag, she had a cardboard sign with a handwritten message warning government officials not to compromise her right to travel, he said.
Gaines was accused of disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, littering and failing to obey a reasonable and lawful order, all misdemeanors. A failure-to-appear warrant was filed when she did not show up to court July 13, court records show.

She sounds like a sovereign idiot and it seems as if there were numerous charges against her from the traffic stop and maybe from other incidents.

[Lee-Lee]

10. It's not the ticket, it's the blowing off the court date that escleates it

You want to make even the most minor issue worse? Blow off the court date and don't show up without contacting the clerks office to handle the issue.

When I was a deputy probably half the people I encountered with active arrest warrant wee FTA- failure to appear. Usually a minor traffic or other charge like shoplifting that they make worse by blowing off court. Do that and the judge isn't going to have any patience with you.

Definitely sounds sovereign citizen, quite possibly Moorish Nation who are an African American SC movement.

[Eleanors38]

4. So a little kid is brought in to drive home some point?? You believe in it, YOU go down for it.

[Eleanors38]

5. UPDATE: "Child expected to survive." From "Vice News."

[NobodyHere]

8. At least there's some good news to this tragedy