A city firefighter was met with gunfire after stopping to help a driver who crashed Saturday afternoon in South Baltimore, police said. The fire department commander was not hit, and the driver — a 38-year-old whom police said stole the car — ran away. He was arrested by police after a short foot chase. Officers charged Michael Awosika with attempted murder, carjacking, assault, robbery and theft, police said. Online court records did not list Awosika's attorney on Sunday.
On Saturday afternoon, a woman was taking her 5-month-old grandson out of a Chrysler Sebring in West Baltimore when Awosika climbed in.