Baltimore gunman shot officer, held hostages before police killed him

Police body-camera footage released two weeks after a deadly Northwest Baltimore standoff shows officers dragging a wounded SWAT officer to safety, helping a woman who jumped from a second-floor window and then moving into a Park Heights Avenue home after the gunman was down.

The confrontation began as a burglary call in the 6200 block of Park Heights Avenue on March 10, 2026, but Baltimore police said the scene turned violent as soon as officers arrived. According to investigators, gunfire erupted immediately, and 33-year-old Jonathan Ingram of Baltimore shot Officer Brian Loiero through an SUV while Loiero took cover. Loiero, a 15-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department assigned to SWAT, was hit in the thigh and taken to Shock Trauma.

Police later said Loiero was discharged and recovering. He was one of the most visible names to emerge from the standoff, not only because he was the officer wounded in the first exchange, but because his rescue underscored how quickly a call for a break-in became an active-shooter response in a residential neighborhood.

Inside the home, police said, a woman escaped by jumping from a second-floor window. Another woman, described by police as a family member of Ingram, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. At one point during the standoff, officers said Ingram appeared in a window holding a person at gunpoint, a moment that prompted the SWAT response that ended with a sniper shot after he reappeared at the window. Ingram died from his injuries, and police said a firearm was recovered at the scene.

The newly released video shows officers moving the wounded Loiero away from the house, then circling behind the home and finding the woman who had jumped from the window. It also shows officers entering the house after Ingram was down. The footage gives a clearer view of the danger faced by neighbors on Park Heights Avenue, where a call to police became a block-by-block emergency that forced officers to weigh rescues, containment and the risk to nearby residents.

The shooting remains under review by the Maryland Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division, which has asked witnesses and anyone with cell phone or surveillance footage to come forward. Mayor Brandon Scott and Gov. Wes Moore both publicly praised the response and voiced concern for Loiero and the affected family.

The episode also revived attention around Loiero’s career. Records reported that in May 2016, he was one of three officers who shot Alex Brizzi, a Howard County man who walked into Fox 45 news with a fake bomb strapped to his chest.