A man wanted by DC police in this summer’s slaying of a solar panel employee in Baltimore fired at officers trying to arrest him Tuesday morning and may have been barricaded in a Northeast Washington building, according to a department spokesperson. Police and federal agents are also searching the surrounding neighborhoods.

The bullets hit at least one police cruiser, but no officers were hit, said the spokesman, Dustin Sternbeck. He said the officers did not fire back.

Police said a woman called 911 around 6:20 a.m. to report seeing a man she believed to be Avery Miler in the 5300 block of Ames Street NE. Sternbeck said Miler ran into a building on nearby Blaine Street NE. According to the police, it is not immediately clear if the man has an accomplice.

Miler, 27, was charged with a warrant for first-degree murder while armed in the killing of 25-year-old Aryeh Wolf in Northwest Baltimore.

The standoff continued Tuesday morning, but police said they were also searching for Miler in nearby neighborhoods, assisted by agents of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and members of the US Marshals Service.

“We’re still looking for him,” Leslie Parsons, an assistant DC police chief who heads the Investigative Services Bureau, told reporters just before 10:30 a.m.

Man shot dead while installing solar panels in Southeast DC

Armed tactical officers responded to the area in the Capitol View and Grant Park neighborhoods. Police cordoned off several blocks and kept residents away. A helicopter was circling overhead.

The area is close to several schools. A spokeswoman for the DC school system said HD Woodson High School and Drew Elementary are on lockdown. He said students and staff are safe and families have been notified.

Parsons said at least one school was scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m. and changed its schedule.

Miler is accused of killing Wolf on the afternoon of Aug. 10 while Wolf was working next to an apartment building in the 5100 block of Call Place SE in the Marshall Heights neighborhood.

The police have not yet determined the motive for the shooting. Wolf has a wife and a daughter who was born less than a year ago. His killing shocked Baltimore’s Jewish population, and at a service at the Sol Levinson funeral home, Rabbi Menachem Goldberger said Wolf “was struck in a moment without warning,” cutting short the life of a man who he described being “very humble” and “striving for something bigger.”

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