Police chief says officers were worried about man’s criminal history By Dan Schere |
January 12, 2021
Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark Sroka, bottom center, gives an update to the Mayor and City Council on a shooting in which at least one officer fired his weapon at an armed man Friday, killing him.
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This story was updated at 12:33 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2021, to include additional comments from Gaithersburg Police Chief Mark Sroka and again at 3:57 p.m. to include a response from Sroka to the Silver Spring Justice Coalition
The Silver Spring Justice Coalition, a local civil rights watchdog group, is demanding more transparency from the city of Gaithersburg after police fatally shot a man on Friday.
FBI will not say who was wounded, or why, in shooting on train
Dan Morse and Tom Jackman, The Washington Post
Dec. 17, 2020
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WASHINGTON - At the start of the Tuesday morning commute, an FBI agent was involved in a shooting aboard a Metro Red Line Train in Maryland.
In the 48 hours since, the agency has refused to say who fired a weapon, declined to give the medical condition of the person wounded and provided no details on what led to the shooting or released the name of the agent involved after several inquiries from The Washington Post.
The FBI would not say whether the person who was sent to the hospital was still alive.
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