The Latest: Senator honors slain officer; 3 arrested
(AP) – The Latest on the fatal shooting of an officer outside a police station in Maryland (all times local):
2:15 p.m.
U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski is mourning the death of Prince George’s County officer Jacai Colson.
Colson was killed Sunday, police say, by a man who wanted to die in a gun battle with officers outside his station in the Washington suburb of Landover.
Mikulski says Colson not only kept drugs and crime off the streets as an undercover narcotics officer. He was following in the footsteps of his grandfather, a police officer in Pennsylvania.
The Maryland Democrat says service “ran in the very fiber of his being.”
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12: 20 p.m.
Police say evidence shows a gunman who killed an officer outside a police station in a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital “intended to die during a gun battle with police.”
Prince George’s County police tweeted Monday that they now have a third brother in custody in connection with the death of Officer Jacai Colson on Sunday night. Police have not identified them. All are in custody.
Police Chief Hank Stawinski says the shooter opened fire on the first officer he saw outside the station Sunday afternoon. A gun battle followed, and the gunman was wounded.
“It wasn’t about anything,” Stawinski said.
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5 a.m.
Police say they’re seeking answers for why a gunman opened fire outside a police station in a Maryland suburb of the nation’s capital, killing an officer in what the police chief called an “unprovoked attack.”
Prince George’s county police chief Hank Stawinski says the shooter opened fire on the first officer he saw outside the station around 4:30 p.m. Sunday. A gun battle followed, with several officers shooting at the suspect, who was wounded.
On Sunday night, hours after the shooting, Stawinski had few answers for reporters about what led to the gunfire. He said the shooting suspect and another man were arrested.
“It wasn’t about anything,” he said of the shooting.
