Report: Deputy shoots erratic driver who attacked him
February 7, 2021 GMT
GAITHERSBURG, Md. (AP) A sheriff’s deputy shot and killed an erratic driver in Maryland after the man caused two car crashes and attacked the deputy with a piece of wood, authorities said.
The Washington Post reports that the incident began at about 8 a.m. Saturday.
Montgomery County Sheriff Darren Popkin said one driver swerved to avoid him and crashed into a telephone pole. The erratic driver then crashed head-on into a second vehicle at an intersection. Popkin said the man got out of his car and used a large piece of wood to try to attack the people he had just crashed into.
Updated on February 8, 2021 at 6:13 am
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A Montgomery County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed an erratic driving suspect on Saturday after authorities say the suspect caused two collisions, went after crash victims and struck a deputy with a piece of wood.
Kevin Costlow of Laytonsville was killed, the county police department said in an update Sunday. Costlow was 52 and a semi-retired information security consultant.
The deputy fired his weapon after the suspect hit him in the head and neck the wood, county police said. The deputy was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening.
Kwamena Ocran died Jan. 8 after being shot by at least one Gaithersburg officer
January 24, 2021 | 8:30 pm
January 25, 2021
More than 100 people gathered outside Gaithersburg City Hall on Sunday afternoon to protest the police killing of Kwamena Ocran.
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More than 100 people gathered outside Gaithersburg City Hall on Sunday to protest the recent killing of a Black man by city police.
At the event, speakers again questioned the Gaithersburg Police Department’s recounting of the Jan. 8 shooting that left 24-year-old Kwamena Ocran dead.
Police say four plain clothes officers, part of the department’s Street Crimes Unit, surveilled Ocran after receiving a report that he was armed with a handgun. When they approached him, he allegedly fled.
Officer Cleared, Back on Active Duty Following Shooting of Potomac Man
The Montgomery County Police Department SWAT team officer who was not charged in the fatal shooting of a Potomac man March 12, 2020 has returned to fulltime duty.
Following a lengthy investigation by the Howard County State’s Attorney’s Office, the officer was cleared of any wrongdoing. His actions were declared “reasonable under the circumstances” as 21-year-old Duncan Socrates Lemp was “retrieving a rifle and pointing it at the officer” and refused to obey the officer’s commands at the time of the shooting, according to a 17-page report.
Therefore, Howard County officials ruled that the shooting was justified.
Police chief says officers were worried about man’s criminal history By Dan Schere |
January 12, 2021
Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark Sroka, bottom center, gives an update to the Mayor and City Council on a shooting in which at least one officer fired his weapon at an armed man Friday, killing him.
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This story was updated at 12:33 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2021, to include additional comments from Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark Sroka and again at 3:57 p.m. to include a response from Sroka to the Silver Spring Justice Coalition
The Silver Spring Justice Coalition, a local civil rights watchdog group, is demanding more transparency from the city of Gaithersburg after police fatally shot a man on Friday.