Todd Brown shielded himself from the heavy rain Tuesday afternoon inside a bus shelter at the Cromwell Station light rail station and talked about the shooting.
On Saturday, he was standing nearby when a homeless woman began yelling at his pregnant wife and daughter when they tried to sit on a bench with her. An MTA Police officer tried to calm the woman down, only to get punched in the face and wrestled to her knees.
Brown said he tried to pull the woman off the officer, and then watched as the officer repeatedly warned the woman to back away and then finally shot her.
"You've got to have a problem to be like that," Brown said. "There's something not right with you."
Days after Angela Beatrice Randolph, 38, died from wounds suffered in the violent confrontation, several people who knew her said she was homeless and may have been suffering from mental illness.
It was the second violent death of a homeless person in Glen Burnie in less than a month.
Mario Berninzoni, director of the Arundel House of Hope, said he last saw Randolph on June 2, days before the shooting. She had been coming to the day center in Glen Burnie to use its mail service for homeless people, pick up a snacks and take showers since the beginning of 2013.
"Some of the staff thought she had mental health issues," he said. "I don't think she was getting much support. I think she had anger issues. She'd want stuff right away, yelling and getting upset if things didn't go her way."
Michael Beavers Jr. said he also was at the light rail station when Randolph was shot. He recognized her from the Arundel House of Hope, where he also uses the program's services.
"She was real quiet," he said. "She would come in and do her business and leave."
On Saturday, Brown was waiting with Stephanie Williams and their children at the light rail station for a ride. They were headed to a birthday party. Randolph confronted them, saying she hated young people.
"She was cussing us out," Brown said. "She didn't want no one to sit next to her."
Williams walked to Maryland Transit Administration Officer Tracy Turpin, who sitting in her car and asked her to help.
Turpin approached Randolph, asking if there was any problem then repeatedly asked for identification.
Quickly getting frustrated, Randolph punched the officer, grabbed her hair and pushing her to the ground, Brown said. The officer was bent over on her knees, with Randolph on her. Brown tried to pull Randolph off but she was too strong.
"I was the only citizen who helped," Brown said, aggravated. "Everyone else was pulling out their phones."
Turpin warned Randolph several times before pulling her weapon out, Brown said. Turpin then made it clear she was pulling the safety.
"Once I seen she did that, I jumped off the woman," Brown said. "(The officer) warned her so many times."
The officer shot Randolph in the upper leg, the only place she could access, Brown said. Others at the station ran.
"Everything happened within five minutes," he said.
Randolph was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, county police spokesman Lt. T.J. Smith said. Anne Arundel police are investigating the shooting.
Turpin is a three-year veteran of the force and had non-life- threatening injuries. She was taken to the hospital and released. She has been placed on administrative duty while the case is being investigated.
Randolph's death follows that of Keith Boggs, a homeless man who also had been coming to the Day and Resource Center since 2010. He was killed May 20 in a dispute with Joseph Eugene Wright, 44.
Both men lived in a tent encampment near the light rail station. Berninzoni said Randolph may have been living in the same area.
Although some at Arundel House of Hope said Randolph could be difficult, others said she never causing trouble, only talked to herself.
Brian James, a staff member at House of Hope, said he had never seen her do anything bad.
"She was always in good spirits," he said.