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Police have shot down a man in Baltimore who was claiming to have an explosive device strapped to his chest, it is unclear if the suspect was killed. A man wearing a hedgehog onesie was shot and injured by police after threatening to blow up a Baltimore TV station while wearing a fake bomb on Thursday.
The Fox45 television station was evacuated on Thursday afternoon after the threat was reported. Mike Tomko, the station's news director, said that the suspect was sitting in the building's lobby and had demanded to be shown on air. Police said the suspect, who was wearing a fake bomb made of wires and chocolate, is expected to survive after being shot three times by a police sniper.
"[The suspect] talked to me and was wearing what appears to be a full body white panda suit, surgical mask and sunglasses," Tomko wrote on Facebook. "He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air. He compared it to the information found in the Panama Papers. I told him, 'I can't let you in, you're going to have to leave the flash drive here and slide it through the opening.' He wouldn't do that. Apparently he had made some threats before.” The Fox45 television station was evacuated on after the threat was reported. Mike Tomko, the station's news director, said that the suspect was sitting in the building's lobby and had demanded to be shown on air.
Casey Clark, a local journalist with WBFF, said on a Periscope stream that the suspect in the lobby was wearing a “panda jumpsuit” that appeared to have “floppy ears.” "He talked to me and was wearing what appears to be a full body white panda suit, surgical mask and sunglasses," Tomko wrote on Facebook. "He had a flash drive, said he had information he wanted to get on the air. He compared it to the information found in the Panama Papers. I told him, 'I can't let you in, you're going to have to leave the flash drive here and slide it through the opening.' He wouldn't do that. Apparently he had made some threats before.”
Keith Daniels, a reporter with the station, tweeted a video of himself outside the building. A security guard working at the station told local reporters that the suspect claimed to have a bomb and began making threats at 1:20pm.
"We have a report of an intruder," Daniels said on Twitter. "Someone who says he has a bomb inside of our building.” “He pretty much said he had a bomb on him and that he had a message that he needed to be heard,” the security guard said.
The Baltimore Sun reports that the Baltimore Police Department are currently investigation the threat. The suspect's father later identified his son to CBS Baltimore as 25-year-old Alex Prizzi.
Police said the investigation is ongoing and will provide an update on Friday.