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At issue is the law that created the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division and empowered it to investigate when people die after police shoot them.

At issue is the law that created the Maryland attorney general’s Independent Investigations Division and empowered it to investigate when people die after police shoot them.

The family and neighbors of 16-year-old Peyton Ham, killed by a Maryland State Police trooper, say they still have questions about his death and the investigation that cleared the officer.

Rich Lowry Apr 27, 2021 8:55 PM ET Fake guns are a common element in police-involved shootings. In Leonardtown, Md., on April 13, a state trooper shot and killed Peyton Ham, a 16-year-old white male, after he pointed what turned out to be an airsoft gun at him. According to an eyewitness, after he got shot, Ham brandished a knife and tried to stand up, defying orders to drop the knife, and the officer fired again. In Hawaii on April 5, police shot and killed Iremamber Sykap, a 16-year-old born in Guam, after pursuing a vehicle connected to a number of crimes and seeing what they believed was ...

April 26, 2021 UPDATE 4/26/2021 @ 5:40 p.m.: Maryland State Police Homicide Unit investigators are continuing an investigation into a trooper involved shooting that occurred in Leonardtown on April 13, 2021. The involved trooper is identified as Trooper Joseph Azzari, who is assigned to the Leonardtown Barrack as a road patrol trooper. He has been a Maryland state trooper for two years and seven months. Trooper Azzari remains on administrative leave pending the results of the ongoing investigation. This is procedure in trooper-involved shootings. The Maryland State Police Internal Affairs Div...