New Attorney General’s Unit Investigating Baltimore County Police Shooting

WOODLAWN, Md. (WJZ) — A caller part of the Maryland Attorney General’s Office is among the agencies investigating this week’s police-involved shooting successful Baltimore County.

The Attorney General’s Office’s Independent Investigations Division was formed successful effect to respective constabulary betterment bills passed by the Maryland General Assembly earlier this year.

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That portion and the Maryland State Police are present tasked with investigating the shooting that unfolded Monday greeting portion constabulary pursued a brace of equipped robbery suspects.

‘If you deliberation astir it, it makes sense,” said Dana Mulhauser, main of the Independent Investigations Division. “Individuals shouldn’t beryllium investigating radical that they cognize if determination is simply a mode to debar it, right?”

According to Baltimore County Police, officers were initially called astir 2 a.m. Monday for an equipped robbery astatine a 7-Eleven successful Windsor Mill.

The 2 suspects were trying to get distant from constabulary erstwhile their conveyance was progressive successful a hit-and-run crash, and they bailed out, according to police.

An serviceman encountered 1 of the suspects adjacent Englewood Avenue and Gilmore Street, and a shootout ensued.

Police said K-9 units recovered the fishy dormant nearby  a abbreviated clip later. A firearm was recovered from the scene.

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The officer, who was wounded but not changeable during the speech of gunfire, was taken to an country infirmary for treatment.

The flurry of constabulary enactment and a sprawling transgression country was a root of interest for immoderate residents, neighbors told WJZ.

“The neighbors were successful fear,” Woodlawn nonmigratory Rodney Booth said. “They were successful shock.”

While Baltimore County Police are investigating the robbery, the caller portion with the Attorney General’s Office volition reappraisal the officer-involved shooting.

Based connected preliminary details released by police, it’s believed that lone 1 serviceman fired his bureau limb during Monday morning’s pursuit.

The officer, whose sanction has not been released, was placed connected paid administrative leave, which is modular operating process for officer-involved shootings.

The Independent Investigations Division and MSP volition compile a study based connected their findings, which volition beryllium provided to the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office.

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“We deliberation that this is amended for everyone,” Mulhauser said. “You know, our occupation is not to people oregon to headhunt. Our occupation is to analyse constabulary officers successful the aforesaid mode that everyone other gets investigated, right, with fairness.”

Jessica Albert