Police did not immediately have additional information, including the officer's condition, but sources said the trainee worked for the University System of Maryland. A press briefing was scheduled for about 3:15 at Shock Trauma. According to an internal communication from Baltimore County police, the recruit was shot in the head.
State police are leading the investigation because it took place in a state facility.
The former Rosewood Center dates to 1888, and once housed as many as many as 3,000 patients with developmental disabilities. Its population dwindled to 166 residents by 2010, when Gov. Martin O'Malley ordered its closure. Most of the remaining residents were then relocated to group homes.
After the closure, only security guards, a few state employees, and a maintenance, were to remain.
State troopers, Baltimore County police and Baltimore City police milled in parking lot in front of a low brick building on the Campus Tuesday afternoon.
Sonya Boyce, a private security guard who watches over the abandoned buildings on the site, said police told her that there had been an accident, but nothing more. Boyce said a number of agencies train at the facility, but that she had only seen city officers there over the past week.
In the early afternoon, Baltimore County cruisers blocked the cracked concrete roads that link the eerie abandoned buildings on that once housed patients. Later on they rolled out and were replaced by State Troopers. Shortly before dusk a Baltimore Police minibus also left the scene filled with people wearing uniforms consisting of a tan shirt and dark pants.
The property, which includes 178 acres, 30-some buildings constructed in the late 19th century through the 1960s, has been up for sale. Stevenson University had expressed interest in purchasing the land near the Reisterstown Road corridor.
However, concerns have been raised over costs to remove hazardous materials including lead, asbestos and PCBs, toxic chemicals from coal ash dumping and leaking oil tanks.
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene still owns the property, a spokeswoman confirmed, but she had no details Tuesday about law enforcement using Rosewood for training.
Source-baltsun.com