CALIFORNIA, Md. — We're learning more about what led to a police involved shooting in St. Mary's County Monday night.
It all started when someone reported a stolen vehicle at the Wawa on Three Notch Road in California.
The car was ultimately located three blocks up at a hotel parking lot.
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That's where deputies located a potential suspect, identified as 20-year-old Tyler Ray Marini Sater, of Anne Arundel County, who took off running towards nearby Wildewood shopping center.
According to police Sater was armed with a knife, and tried getting away by carjacking a citizen outside a restaurant.
While giving chase officers reportedly attempted to use a taser and K-9 to take Sater into custody.
When that didn't work, he allegedly got into a running car prompting Sergeant Timothy Wesner to fire three shots.
Sater is currently stable at an area hospital, where he is being held on a slew of charges including armed robbery and attempted armed carjacking.
Wesner was not hurt and remains on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an internal investigation.
