Attorney General Identifies Man Fatally Shot By Anne Arundel County Police On Sunday

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Office of the Attorney General identified the equipped man fatally changeable by an Anne Arundel County constabulary officer connected Sunday arsenic Digno Ramon Yorro Jr.

On Nov. 28 astir 1:30 p.m., a pistillate called 911 and said a antheral household subordinate was threatening her with a weapon and chased her from a location successful Glen Burnie, Attorney General Brian Frosh’s bureau said Tuesday. The caller besides didn’t cognize the whereabouts of an aged pistillate who lived successful the home.

Officers responded 1400 artifact of Braden Loop and forcibly entered the location aft cipher answered a sound astatine the door. They were met by Yorro, who was equipped with a knife, Frosh’s bureau said.

Police ordered Yorro to driblet the knife, and erstwhile helium didn’t comply, 1 serviceman fired respective bean-bag shotgun rounds and past a Taser astatine him, Frosh’s bureau said.

Yorro past walked toward constabulary officers with the knife. An officer, identified lone arsenic “Cpl. J. Burger,” fired aggregate times astatine Yorro, who was aboriginal pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

The assemblage of a pistillate who had suffered trauma, aboriginal identified arsenic Yorro’s mother, was recovered wrong the house’s garage.

Burger is simply a six-year seasoned of the Anne Arundel County Police Department, Frosh’s bureau said.

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The Office of the Attorney General’s Independent Investigations Division, a radical tasked with reviewing each constabulary shootings successful the state, is investigating the incident. Frosh’s bureau said the part mostly releases body-worn camera footage from constabulary shootings wrong 14 days.