2 die in police confrontation outside Maryland motel

Officers fatally shot a man and woman on a motel balcony on Tuesday when they refused to drop handguns they had raised toward police who were there to serve warrants, Maryland State Police said.

No officers were hurt during the confrontation on Tuesday at the New Eastern Inn in Elkton, a city of 15 000 about 70km northeast of Baltimore, state police spokesperson Greg Shipley said.

Investigators were trying to learn if the people killed were those named in the warrants for felony possession of firearms stemming from a shooting earlier this week in Delaware.