A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in the death of a Baltimore County police officer, who was fatally struck by a vehicle on Monday.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged as an adult with first-degree murder in the death of a Baltimore County police officer, who was fatally struck by a vehicle on Monday.
Dawnta Anthony Harris told a detective that he “drove at the officer,” according to a probable cause statement. He is expected to appear in court on Tuesday in connection with the death of Officer Amy Caprio. He is being held without bail.
The teen told a detective he had been waiting in the driver’s seat of the vehicle while others were in the process of committing a burglary, according to the probable cause statement.
The Baltimore County Police Department said Tuesday that three additional suspects who were involved in burglaries in the area are also in custody. The department has not said whether the three played any role in Officer Caprio’s death.
Caprio was run over after responding to a “suspicious vehicle” in a Baltimore suburb at approximately 2 p.m. She was rushed to a nearby hospital, where she passed away.
She was with the Baltimore County Police Department for nearly four years.
“I’m just still grieving. I don’t know, I just feel like talking about it is definitely better than not,” husband Tim Caprio told former police commissioner Ed Norris on the Norris & Long radio show on Tuesday, according to the Baltimore Sun.
A witness to the fatal attack in northeast Baltimore County told his father that he saw Caprio pull her gun on a jeep before she was struck.
“The next thing he heard was a pop, and he saw the Jeep take off and run right over her,” dad Tony Kurek said. The car left skid marks, and Caprio was down and bleeding.
Logan Kurek, a volunteer firefighter, said he heard his younger brother “frantically screaming” and ran outside to perform CPR.
Kurek’s neighbor Dahle Amendt, said he had just settled into his recliner when he heard a woman’s voice outside his house.
“I heard, ‘Get out of the car!’ ‘Get out of the car!’ Get out of the car!’ at least three times, and then a pop,” Amendt said.
Harris was arrested near where a Jeep was found abandoned.
“This is a shock. It’s a quiet community. It’s just so sad,” Amendt said.
With News Wire Services
