A Baltimore firefighter who held police at bay while he raped a woman at gunpoint was found dead later at her Northwest Baltimore apartment, an apparent suicide.
City police said Kelly C. Randolph, 29, went to the woman's Fallstaff Manor apartment about 9 p.m. Saturday, and she asked him to leave.
He returned minutes later with a pistol, the woman told police.
Police learned there was trouble after the woman received a telephone call from a friend. Mr. Randolph grabbed the woman and warned the woman against revealing his presence to the friend, but the caller -- already alarmed -- telephoned police.
Three officers responding to the call heard sounds of a struggle in the apartment, police said.
Mr. Randolph opened the door, held his gun to the woman's head and ordered the officers back. As they retreated, he fired seven shots, hitting no one. Police did not return fire.
Over the next 40 minutes, police said, Mr. Randolph terrorized and raped the woman at gunpoint.
Mr. Randolph later called another woman by telephone and told her that he planned to kill himself -- then shot himself in the abdomen and right temple, police said.
The rape victim called 911 to say he was dead, and officers found Mr. Randolph's body in a bedroom, a Glock 9 mm semiautomatic pistol in his right hand.
Mr. Randolph of the 6200 block of Pimlico Road had been a driver at Engine Company No. 23 at Lombard and Eutaw streets for the past year, fire Lt. Stephen Ferragamo said yesterday.
"He was a really quiet person, a conscientious worker," he said, noting that Mr. Randolph recently volunteered for rescue technician training and was buying a home in Owings Mills.