Johns Hopkins University security officer deploys pepper spray against man armed with machete
BALTIMORE MD June 16 2019 Johns Hopkins University is warning the community about a man who was apparently brandishing a machete on the Homewood campus Wednesday, prompting a campus security officer to try to pepper-spray him.
Baltimore police told the university that the man is now being held at a mental-health facility, and campus security is working to determine if he “poses an ongoing threat to our community,” according to a public safety advisory sent today.
The man was reportedly behaving erratically on the campus and brandishing a weapon in the area of Wyman Park Drive and San Martin Drive on June 12, according to the notice.
He was taken into custody on Wyman Park Drive near Falls Road/I-83, and Baltimore police recovered a machete in his possession, according to the JHU advisory.
There was also an incident with the individual on campus on May 28. He was given a “verbal trespass warning” at the time.
During the June 12 incident, a campus security officer “attempted to deploy pepper spray after the individual refused requests to remove his hand from an object concealed inside his sweatshirt.”
The man is described as a black man about 40 to 50 years old, with black hair, a full beard, 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing 180 pounds, and wearing a brown hooded sweatshirt and dark gray sweatpants.
He was wearing the same clothing during the May 28 incident.
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