Mental health crisis escalates to domestic dispute, Columbia MD

Family Offense

Reported: 10/24/2025 10:06 AM

Near Brook Way, Columbia, MD 21044

Police and emergency services responded to a mental health crisis at a residence near Brook Way, Columbia, MD. A male, who was not medicated, was involved in an escalating domestic dispute with a female occupant. The male requested the female to leave the house, and both parties were on the phone with dispatch during the incident. Additional police units were dispatched to assist at the scene.

Audio|Source: Howard County Police, Fire and EMS

01:45

Transcript:

00:00

is about to get a call for a mental illness subject near Brook Way i believe

00:09

I'll be 76 there. Can you start me two more units, please?

00:13

That's right. I haven't coming in as a domestic dispatch to David 21.

00:18

Units back.

00:19

David 21. 5-1. Baker 31 advice on traffic.

00:24

That four.

00:31

near Brook Way, we have a Gavin subject on the line. He's advising needs help getting a female out of the house, (name withheld). We're getting further.

00:44

Probably 31.

00:48

Go ahead.

00:54

In reference to the other vehicles, are there any tags on them?

00:59

125 if yes.

01:02

Thank you. Thank you.

01:08

Thank you. So, guys.

01:10

And also,

01:12

as far as the reactor, I can't go fuss for that one.

01:16

They already taken that awful lot.

01:18

You know 42.

01:19

42. 42.

01:23

10-4[1]. So I'm confirming a white, Toyota,

01:28

a blue Chrysler, and then the one stolen through our jurisdiction, a gray accurate, correct?

01:34

I just got a phone-care take. It seems more like a domestic, but I'll still be 706 since we'd go over yesterday.

01:40

Okay, now the female's calling in advising that the male subject's not medicated.

01:44

We have them both on the line now.

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10-4: Acknowledgment received; message understood; affirmative or OK.

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