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Police officers in Maryland fatally shot a 21-year-old outside a McDonald s restaurant after an “armed standoff,” the Montgomery County Police Department said in a news release Saturday.
The shooting took place Friday night after police said officers responded to a call about a customer who had ordered food but was refusing to move through the drive-thru lane at the McDonald s in Gaithersburg, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) from Washington.
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Once an officer spotted a handgun on the front passenger seat of the man s car, backup was called, police said. Additional officers secured the area and evacuated McDonald s staff.
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