Body Camera Footage Released In Anne Arundel County Police Shooting

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Attorney General’s Office connected Monday released assemblage camera footage from a deadly police-involved shooting past period successful Anne Arundel County.

Officers were called to a Glen Burnie location astir 1:30 p.m. Nov. 28 aft a pistillate called 911, saying she was chased from the location by a comparative who was equipped with a knife, the Attorney General’s Office said. No 1 answered the doorway erstwhile constabulary arrived, but aft forcing entry, officers recovered Digno Yorro Jr. holding a knife.

In the 7:41-minute video clip, officers tin beryllium heard ordering Yorro to driblet the knife. When helium doesn’t, an serviceman fires aggregate legume container rounds astatine him. Unfazed, Yorro retreats down a room counter, shrugging disconnected a blast from a constabulary stun weapon and repeated commands to driblet the weapon.

Midway done the clip, Yorro tin beryllium seen walking toward officers, 1 of whom opens occurrence with his handgun. Yorro collapses to the level and cries retired successful pain. At that point, officers tin beryllium seen securing the weapon and administering archetypal assistance to Yorro, who was pronounced dormant astatine the scene.

A hunt of the location uncovered the assemblage of a pistillate who had signs of trauma, the Attorney General’s Office said. She was identified arsenic Yorro’s mother, Valentina.

The serviceman who fatally changeable Yorro was identified arsenic Cpl. J. Burger, a six-year seasoned of the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

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The shooting remains nether probe by the Attorney General’s Office’s Independent Investigations Division (IID), which was established this twelvemonth arsenic portion of caller policing reforms. The radical is liable for investigating each police-involved deaths of civilians.