Police said they have charged a repeat violent offender in connection with the shooting of a city police officer during a traffic stop near Mondawmin Mall in west Baltimore on Sunday night.

Police said the officer and his partner conducted the stop at a gas station in the 2600 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway around 7:15 p.m.

The incident started Sunday night when the suspect car was initially spotted by a different officer at a nearby gas station. Police said that officer smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car and called it in.

The car was pulled over a short time later by 27-year-old Officer Andrew Groman — a three-year veteran of the force — and five other officers, according to police. Surveillance video showed the car was surrounded by officers.

“They did a car stop on suspicious activity, and they walked up to the car,” said Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.

Police said the driver followed instructions, but 19-year-old Donte Jones, who was in the back seat, wouldn’t get out of the car and refused to show his hands.

“One officer advised him that if he didn’t comply he would be tased. At some point in time, there was the discharging of the firearm, and there was the firing of the Taser. Exactly which event happened first is still under investigation,” Baltimore City police Maj. Stanley Branford said. “We do know, however, that the suspect who was the only one who fired a weapon.”

Three shots were fired, striking Groman once in the abdomen, just below his bulletproof vest, police said. They do not believe any officers fired their service weapons.

Jones was chased a couple of blocks away and captured by a Baltimore City and a Coppin State police officer.

Groman’s partner rushed him to Sinai Hospital, where he had surgery Sunday night. Groman’s family was brought in from out of state to be by his side.

“The surgery team was down immediately, and within a few minutes he was taken up to the operating room,” said Sinai Hospital’s Dr. Lisa Kirkland on Sunday night. “At this point, all I can tell you is he’s doing well.”

Police said Groman was listed in stable condition Tuesday. He hasn’t yet been able to talk to officials about the incident.

“One of our officers was for no reason attacked viciously by (the gunman),” Baltimore police Deputy Cmdr. Jerry Rodriguez said.

“We have recovered the gun,” Batts said.

Groman has also been a firefighter with the Pikesville Volunteer Fire Company since 2013.

Florida State University shooter Myron May displayed increasingly erratic behavior in the days leading up to Thursday’s incident, even telling a former roommate she would be getting a ‘mystery package.’

The roommate, who asked not to be identified, said she received a Facebook message just one day before the shooting to let her know something was in the mail.

‘I have no idea what it could be,’ she told FoxNews.com.

Also, According to a Las Cruces, New Mexico, police report last month, May was a subject of a harassment complaint after a former girlfriend called to report he came to her home uninvited and claimed police were bugging his house and car. Danielle Nixon told police May recently developed ‘a severe mental disorder.’

‘Myron began to ramble and handed her a piece to a car and asked her to keep it because this was a camera that police had put in his vehicle,’ the report said.

The report also said May recently quit his job and was on medication.

Two students and an employee were wounded in the attack by gunman Myron May, a lawyer convinced that the government was ‘targeting him’, who opened fire at 12.30am on Thursday morning.

The paranoid 31-year-old, who officials said was in a ‘state of crisis’ at the time, was then shot dead by police outside of the Stozier library which was full of students studying for their exams.

Since the incident police have unearthed journals and videos that showed May believed he was being targeted. A former girlfriend also believes that he had developed a severe mental disorder and was taking medication.

Jason Derfuss was walking out of the building when he was shot in the back. However he did not know he had been hit until his roommate emptied his bag at home.

He found bullet holes in two of the books he had checked out just minutes before the rampage.

He wrote on his Facebook: ‘Earlier tonight there was a shooting at FSU, right as I was leaving Strozier. I didn’t know this at the time, but the Shooter targeted me first. The shot I heard behind me I did not feel, nor did it hit me at all.

‘He was about five feet from me, but he hit my books. Books one minute earlier I had checked out of the library, books that should not have stopped the bullet. But they did. I learned this about three hours after it happened, I never thought to check my bag.

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