BALTIMORE -- Harford County, Maryland, sheriff’s deputies were locked in tense standoff with John Fauver for about five minutes in a Forest Hill parking lot, demanding he get out of his Ford pickup truck and surrender.
Responding to an April 23 call about a suicidal man who was potentially armed, deputies rushed to the suburban shopping center where he was seen in his pickup truck. There, they encountered a defiant and at times belligerent Fauver, 53, according to body-worn and dashboard camera footage released Thursday morning by the Maryland Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division.
“I’m so ready to die, man,” Fauver told deputies, who managed to corner him after he jumped a curb in his truck and sped away during their first attempt to stop him.
