
His death remains classified as a homicide. But prosecutors said that they were still pursuing evidence against a possible suspect, and Suiter’s family and attorney strongly maintain that Suiter was killed. Two external reviews found Suiter shot himself.

Suiter was shot the day before he was to appear in front of a grand jury investigating the department’s Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal, and he had been informed by the FBI that he had been accused of misconduct. He declined to comment on how the department’s response compared to that in 2017. Kenneth Thompson, who heads the monitoring team that is helping implement the police department consent decree, and who helped write the scathing Harlem Park report, went to the scene of Thursday morning’s shooting. The officer and another shooting victim were rushed to Grady Memorial. For days, across a several block stretch of the neighborhood, people were wrongly stopped, searched and sometimes detained during the investigation, a subsequent report found. An Atlanta police officer was ambushed responding to a report of shots fired at a Midtown apartment on Wednesday. The police department’s response to this shooting contrasts sharply with its 2017 lockdown of Harlem Park after the death of city police Detective Sean Suiter. “I ask the citizens of Baltimore, if you do not have information, to just pray.” … We should all take this very personally. “The reality is, men and women do their best job to put on Baltimore Police Department uniforms and go to protect our citizens. But tonight, this is reality,” Mosby said. “There’s been a lot of divisive talk over the past several years around police, around connecting with our community, around violence. Kreamer said his wife heard several gunshots, Kreamer said, perhaps four or five. Across the street, broken glass littered the parking lot beside the Food Mart shop. Now, he knows it was the officer’s patrol vehicle, smashing through a chain-link fence and careening over a ledge toward the park’s playground.Ī car mirror and other debris were scattered below the park’s jungle gym, together with an instruction sheet for a neck brace.

The Burleson cop, whose name was not immediately released, was wounded. Kevin Kreamer, who lives across the street from Curtis Bay Park, said he heard a loud crash around 2 a.m. A Texas police officer was shot multiple times while being ambushed during a traffic stop early Wednesday, police said. They knocked on the doors of homes with cameras perched on windowsills and doorbells, seeking any clues about the crime. (Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun)Īt the shooting scene Thursday, a small group of officers and cadets arrived in vans and searched the area around Pennington Avenue for security cameras. Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison stands with Lawanda Sykes, sister of Keona Holley, a Baltimore Police officer who was shot multiple times in Curtis Bay, as she speaks outside of Shock Trauma.
