Unity Playground Dedicated In Honor Of Fallen Baltimore County Police Officer Amy Caprio

PERRY HALL, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County Schools, on with region officials, dedicated a Unity Playground astatine Gunpowder Elementary Schools successful representation of Officer Amy Caprio, who died successful the enactment of work successful Perry Hall successful 2018 erstwhile she interrupted a burglary.

Organizers explained wherefore they felt the playground was cleanable to grant her memory.

“I started to deliberation that a dedicated playground for Officer Caprio astatine this schoolhouse for the children she protected could beryllium a mode to grant her and support her tone alive, and each the students, aboriginal and current, and each the assemblage members who volition play connected these grounds,” 1 of the organizers said.

The playground was designed with Caprio successful mind, including the speechmaking nook and dragonfly bouncer. Caprio was the archetypal pistillate serviceman to dice successful the enactment of work successful the county.

CBS Baltimore Staff