Witnesses: Police Didn't Need to Shoot

A woman who lived at the same home as Nathaniel McCormick, the man killed by Baltimore County police Sunday night following a 911 call about a potential suicide, says police didn't need the shoot him.

The Baltimore Sun reports that Sandra Jacobs, whose daughter dated McCormick and also lived in the same home in the 7300 block of Berkshire Road, said McCormick was only armed with pen knives. 

Jacobs told the Baltimore Sun that her daughter had gotten into an argument with McCormick and was concerned he might harm himself. She said that she and her daughter and two grandchildren were standing outside the home, and that her daughter had been asking police to call an ambulance to take McCormick to the hospital and calm him down.

Lt. Robert McCullough, a police spokesman initially  Sunday night that McCormick was armed with two large knives. Police confirmed they shot McCormick through a glass door. A neighbor interviewed by the Sun also said police didn't need to shoot McCormick when they did.

Just a week ago, a Colgate man was  in the Berkshire neighborhood in a homicide case police are still investigating.

Last year, McCormick and several neighbors were interviewed by WMAR after a decomposing body was found in Berkshire area.

McCormick was not a suspect in either case.