BEL AIR, Md. (AP) - The Harford County Sheriff's Office is identifying a man killed by deputies after he fired on them and continued to make threats.
Maj. William Davis says the man who died Wednesday evening at his home in Bel Air was 36-year-old Travis Bradley. The sheriff's office originally reported he was 35 years old, but Bradley recently had his 36th birthday.
Davis says deputies responded to a call of a soldier who was suicidal, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and had at least one gun in the house. He says they tried for three hours to get him to surrender peacefully, during which he fired two rounds at deputies and said he would "shoot it out."
Davis says the man used a rifle with a scope, so deputies had to pull back.
Davis says when the man came out of the house a second time, he made motions and indications with a hand that he was armed, and officers believed he was. After deputies fired, they found he did not have a gun on him, but they found loaded firearms inside the house.
Bradley was white. Davis declined to release the races of the deputies involved.
