#BALTIMORE OFFICER AMBUSHED FULL#

Kevin Kreamer, who lives across the street from Curtis Bay Park, said he heard a loud crash that he now knows was the officer’s patrol vehicle hitting a fence and going over a ledge toward the playground. “You tried to snuff her and take something that you can’t. “The person who did this to my sister, you are a coward,” Sykes said. She urged anyone with information to come forward, and she had words for the suspect. The officer’s sister, Lawanda Sykes, told the news conference that Holley had a life-long goal of working for the Baltimore Police Department. Harrison said the shooting didn’t appear to be a domestic incident. “This was a heinous, violent, cowardly, very targeted act,” the commissioner said. Investigators were interviewing people possibly connected to the shooting, he said, noting that video footage has been recovered as well as information from citizens. Harrison told the afternoon news conference that a vehicle of interest has been identified and is being held by police. Officers responding to a report of a crash found Holley, who appeared to be suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds, then worked to get the wounded officer to Shock Trauma as quickly as possible, police said in a news release. when the shooter approached from behind and opened fire and the officer’s vehicle, which had been parked near a building, accelerated and crashed. Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the officer was on duty but not responding to a call in the Curtis Bay area of southern Baltimore about 1:30 a.m. Holley’s injuries are “significant,” Scalea said, declining to provide details based on the family’s wishes.

#BALTIMORE OFFICER AMBUSHED FULL#

“She remains on full life-support measures at this time.” “She’s critically ill,” Scalea said at a late-afternoon news conference. Thomas Scalea said at a briefing outside the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Shock Trauma Center that the officer, later identified as Keona Holley, was shot multiple times and was on life support, The Baltimore Sun reports. BALTIMORE (AP) - A Baltimore police officer is in critical condition after being ambushed and shot while sitting in a patrol vehicle early Thursday, authorities say.ĭr.

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