The man who shot himself and was shot by a bailiff last month at Baltimore’s Eastside District Court died by suicide, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said.
The Maryland Attorney General’s office also said Friday that it would delay releasing surveillance footage of the fatal Jan. 31 encounter at the district courthouse on North Avenue. The delay is necessary, the office said, because more time is needed to conduct further investigation.
The attorney general’s office, which investigates fatal encounters with law enforcement, is probing the shooting. The office said that a man entered the courthouse and pulled out a gun, which he then pointed at himself. A bailiff then shot the man, identified as Garry Wright, who also shot himself.
Wright, 35, died the next day. Investigators say that the bailiff, a retired Baltimore Police officer named Gary Brown, had shot Wright twice in his lower extremities. Wright had shot himself in the head.
The man’s cause of death was formally ruled as suicide, a spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office said Friday.
The encounter was captured on surveillance video, the attorney general’s office said. Usually, the office’s Independent Investigations Division releases footage within 20 business days, but can delay the release depending on the circumstances.
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