Annapolis Man Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter, Assault Charges After Fatally Injuring Passenger During 2020 Incident

ANNAPOLIS (WJZ) — An Annapolis antheral pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter and battle charges stemming from a 2020 incidental wherever helium tried to deed a constabulary serviceman with his motortruck and fatally injured a pistillate rider who was thrown from the car arsenic helium fled the scene, Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess announced connected Friday.

In July 2020, members of the Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Fugitive Apprehension Team started looking for David Bogdanowicz, 53, connected respective outstanding warrants for assault, trespassing and usurpation of probation.

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Officers recovered him 3 days aboriginal driving a stolen motortruck astatine Church Street and Ritchie Highway successful Brooklyn, prosecutors said.

Bogdanowicz drove into the parking batch of a liquor store and tried to spell backmost toward Church Street, but an serviceman had positioned his car to artifact him.

The serviceman said helium heard a pistillate successful the car, Jennifer Patterson, asking Bogdanowicz to halt the truck, prosecutors said.

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Following aggregate commands by constabulary to stop, Bogdanowicz reversed the motortruck toward Det. Kenneth Edmonds, who fired 2 shots astatine the vehicle.

After moving implicit a halt sign, jumping a curve and entering the intersection of Sixth and Church streets, Bogdanowicz sped disconnected arsenic Patterson was trying to escape, causing her to get thrown from the vehicle. Prosecutors said the rear instrumentality ran implicit her leg. Patterson aboriginal died.

Police mislaid way of the motortruck but aboriginal canvassed the country and recovered Bogdanowicz hiding down a parked vehicle.

“The suspect utilized his conveyance arsenic a weapon,” Leitess said successful a statement. “Not lone did helium effort to deed a instrumentality enforcement serviceman with his conveyance to evade apprehension but his actions besides took the beingness of his passenger, Ms. Jennifer Patterson.”

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Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 2. Prosecutors are seeking a condemnation of 35 years successful prison, suspend each but 25 years.

CBS Baltimore Staff