BALTIMORE — A Baltimore man is dead after allegedly firing at police on Thursday morning.
Officers were called to the area of Wilkens and S. Caton Avenues, near St. Agnes Hospital, for someone threatening to take their own life.
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Upon pulling up at the scene, officers Sharod Watson and Mark Rankine came under fire.
Luckily they weren't hurt, but the gunman identified as 46-year-old Louis Jackson, was shot to death.
A firearm was recovered from the scene.
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Although police revealed no potential motive in the case, residents at the nearby Primrose Place Apartments knew Jackson as a longtime tenant with a history of chronic alcoholism.
The complex houses senior and non-elderly disabled residents.
Police are not yet sure whether Jackson was the initial 911 caller.
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