WASHINGTON (AP) - Authorities say a man kidnapped a woman, fatally shot a Census Bureau guard and led police on a car chase through Maryland and Washington, before authorities cornered him Thursday evening in an exchange of gunfire.
Officials say the suspect and a police officer were wounded.
Erika Murray, spokesman at Maryland's Prince George's Hospital Center, says the guard, identified as Lawrence Buckner, died there Thursday evening.
D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier says the officer and suspect were conscious when taken for medical care.
Lanier says events began after a guard at a gate of the U.S. Census Bureau in Suitland, Maryland, saw two people fighting in a car matching a description of a vehicle from a report of an armed kidnapping six miles away in northeast Washington.
The Census Bureau headquarters was opening two hours late Friday morning, and workers were allowed to take unscheduled leave or to telework. Workers who had to shelter in place after the shooting Thursday night were granted excused absences.
The normally bustling H street corridor in Washington's northeast, where the chase ended, remained closed during rush hour Friday morning as police continued to investigate.
