Disclosure: This put up entails point out of homicide and police brutality.
Two Baltimore law enforcement officials are at the moment below investigation by the Maryland Lawyer Basic’s Workplace for his or her involvement within the killing of 18-year-old Donnell Rochester on Feb. 19.
The 2 officers who shot and killed Rochester, Connor Murray and Robert Mauri, are on administrative depart pending the investigation, per the Huffington Put up.
As beforehand reported, Rochester was gunned down as he tried to flee in his automobile earlier than Baltimore PD handcuffed the unarmed teenager as he bled out. He succumbed to his accidents at a close-by hospital quickly after.
Rochester was trying to evade police resulting from a warrant for failure to look in courtroom for a automobile theft cost. Bodycam footage reveals he and a feminine passenger start to take off operating on foot after being noticed by the cops. Rochester doubles again to the automobile to attempt to get away and turns into surrounded by three officers with their weapons drawn, yelling at him to adjust to their calls for. As the teenager slowly strikes the automobile ahead and with out placing any of the officers, Murray, who was entrance and middle, begins capturing. Mauri additionally fires his weapon on the shifting automobile. Rochester crashes right into a parked automobile and surrenders solely seconds later, calling for assist after being shot.
“You OK?” an officer may be heard asking Murray on the scene. He replies, “Yeah.” One other asks Murray if he acquired hit.
“No, I don’t assume it hit me,” Murray solutions.
Nevertheless, in a Feb. 22 request for a search and seizure warrant for Rochester’s automobile, the officers wrote the possible trigger for looking the automobile was as a result of teen placing the officer with the automobile, citing first-degree tried homicide. Nothing got here of the warrant besides fragments from the capturing and plastic tubes of “suspected” marijuana.
“It appears just like the police had been searching for any means to cowl or mitigate what had occurred,” mentioned Malcolm Ruff, an lawyer representing Rochester’s household. “He was a scared 18-year-old child who was attempting to get away and get out of a foul state of affairs. He acquired scared; he tried to get away. He didn’t attempt to run that police officer over.”
Rochester’s mom, Danielle Brown, has been vocal in her demand for justice within the months following her son’s loss of life.
“We simply need solutions, and [to] let the world know that Donnell ought to nonetheless be right here. We’re going to be his voice since he can’t. My son didn’t deserve what occurred to him, for his life to be taken away.”
