County police on Monday shot and killed a man suspected of threatening employees at a Hanover business with a box cutter.

Officers arrived at Trojan Alarm Solutions Inc. on Cabover Drive at about 2:30 p.m. for a reported fight inside the business, said Justin Mulcahy, police spokesman.

When they got there, police found a man, later identified as Imani Rashad Lee, 30, of Baltimore, wielding a box cutter before an unknown number of workers, Mulcahy said.

"Police tried to get him to relinquish the weapon, but he wouldn't," he said.

After 20 minutes of negotiation, fearing that the man posed a threat to...