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Baltimore Police Historical Soicety - Baltimore Police History

Officer Thomas F Stienacker

Friday, 01 November 2019 10:26

 

On this day In Baltimore Police History 1932 we lost our brother Officer Thomas F Stienacker to an auto accident based on the following.
On September 29, 1932 at 9:50 a.m., Officer Stienacker was crossing the intersection of Frederick Avenue and Willard Street. A motorist struck Officer Steinacker as he crossed Frederick Avenue. As a result, he was thrown against a United Railway and Electric Company street car. He suffered a fractured skull, lacerated head and ear. He succumbed to his injuries on October 4, 1932.

As his brothers and sisters of the Baltimore Police Department we will not let him be forgotten, His service Honored the City of Baltimore, and the Baltimore Police Department may he rest in peace, and may God bless him.

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End of Watch 29, September, 1932
City, St. Frederick Avenue and Willard St
Panel Number 16-W: 14
Cause of Death Auto Accident
District Worked Southwestern

Detective Brian Stevenson

Friday, 01 November 2019 10:22

 

 Detective Brian Stevenson

2010 - 16 Oct, 2010 we lost brother police Detective Brian Stevenson, off duty, and not line of duty, but he was our brother and he was murdered based on the following: 

A 25-year-old Southeast Baltimore man has been charged with fatally injuring an off-duty Baltimore police detective by throwing a piece of concrete at the officer's head during an argument over a Canton parking space, according to police. Detective Brian Stevenson, an 18-year veteran and married father of three, had gone out to have dinner on the eve of his birthday when he and Sian James got into an altercation in a private parking lot in the 2800 block of Hudson St. about 10 p.m. Saturday, police said. James was charged Sunday with first-degree murder.

James struck Stevenson in the left temple with a "fist-sized" concrete fragment, according to court records. Stevenson suffered "massive head injuries" and was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he died about an hour before he was to have turned 38.

Colleagues who investigate violent crime in the city — much of it over petty disputes and perceived slights — were struggling to cope with Stevenson's death and were baffled by the circumstances.

"All of them are terrible," Detective Thomas Jackson said of the city's killings. "But a parking space?" Stevenson, who lived in Gwynn Oak, grew up in the city and as an officer investigated shootings and robberies in the Northeast District. He is the first city officer to die at the hands of another since Jan. 9, 2007, when Officer Troy Lamont Chesley Sr. was fatally shot during a robbery while he was off duty in Northwest Baltimore.

Rest In Peace to all of our brothers and sister in the BPD that have lost their lives to the senseless violence of this city. They will not be forgotten, as we their brothers and sisters will keep them in our memories  Detective Brian Stevenson - 16 October, 2010 - Police: Man killed off-duty officer over parking space - 18-year veteran struck in the head with concrete object - October 17, 2010|By Justin Fenton, The Baltimore Sun

A 25-year-old Southeast Baltimore man has been charged with fatally injuring an off-duty Baltimore police detective by throwing a piece of concrete at the officer's head during an argument over a Canton parking space, according to police.

Detective Brian Stevenson, an 18-year veteran and married father of three, had gone out to have dinner on the eve of his birthday when he and Sian James got into an altercation in a private parking lot in the 2800 block of Hudson St. about 10 p.m. Saturday, police said. James was charged Sunday with first-degree murder.

James struck Stevenson in the left temple with a "fist-sized" concrete fragment, according to court records. Stevenson suffered "massive head injuries" and was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he died about an hour before he was to have turned 38.

Colleagues who investigate violent crime in the city — much of it over petty disputes and perceived slights — were struggling to cope with Stevenson's death and were baffled by the circumstances.

"All of them are terrible," Detective Thomas Jackson said of the city's killings. "But a parking space?"

Stevenson, who lived in Gwynn Oak, grew up in the city and as an officer investigated shootings and robberies in the Northeast District. He is the first city officer to die at the hands of another since Jan. 9, 2007, when Officer Troy Lamont Chesley Sr. was fatally shot during a robbery while he was off duty in Northwest Baltimore.

"It's an incredible tragedy for the family, for all of us," Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said outside the hospital, where he and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake met Stevenson's relatives. "The city's losing a fantastic detective who worked to make people safe in this city. It's just senseless."

Stevenson was out having dinner with a longtime friend near Canton Square, and the argument broke out in the parking lot of an eye care clinic. Residents said the neighborhood is typically packed, with some area bars offering valet service and drivers jockeying for parking spots.

Acting on information from witnesses, James was tracked down by officers at a club in Power Plant Live and taken into custody. He was formally charged Sunday afternoon.

Friends recalled Stevenson as a jovial man who was one of the department's snappiest and most distinctive dressers, pairing wild colors and patterns. Jackson, a homicide investigator who worked with Stevenson in the Northeast District, said Stevenson was called "Smiley" because of his consistently upbeat mood.

As a detective, Jackson said, the Baltimore native was able to relate to those he interacted with in the streets. Stevenson graduated from Dunbar High School, Jackson said.

"He loved doing his job, and he made sure his family was provided for," said Detective Sandra Forsythe, who continued to bring baked goods to her former partner after she moved on to the homicide unit this year.

"Brian devoted his life to protecting the people of Baltimore. Like his brothers and sisters in uniform, he deserves our respect and admiration for that commitment," Rawlings-Blake said in a statement. "To honor his life, I hope that the people of this city follow his example and renew their commitment to making every community safer."‪

At the scene Saturday night, neighbor Tricia Zebron said that the neighborhood, between the Can Company shopping center and Canton Square, is typically chaotic on weekends. She said parking spots are hard to come by — her car was parked in the same lot where Stevenson was struck, though there are "private parking" signs posted warning that unauthorized vehicles will be towed.

"It's a circus every weekend here," she said.

But it's also among the safest neighborhoods in the city. Stevenson was the first person slain in area near the Canton- Fells Point waterfront this year.

Walter J. Ford, a 76-year-old retired brewery worker who has lived in Canton all of his life, said he was surprised to hear of a killing in the neighborhood.

"I'm really shocked for this area," said Ford. "Very seldom do we get anyone killed. There might be a purse- snatching or something. Canton's usually very fortunate."

The suspect, James, lived around the corner in the 2800 block of Dillon St. Court records show he was charged in July with attempted rape, third-degree sex offense, assault and false imprisonment. Initially held without bond, he was released in mid-September on $150,000 bond.

Details of that case were not immediately available, and his attorney of record, John Denholm, could not be reached for comment.

Records also show that in late July, James was ordered to stay away from a woman who had filed her second protective order against him in a span of four months. Reached for comment, a man who answered the woman's phone said that they could not discuss James because of an "ongoing situation."

No one answered the door at James' home late Sunday afternoon. Neighbors sitting on their front steps said James lived there with a roommate and drove a motorcycle. He seemed friendly, they said, waving hello as he came and went. Other neighbors recalled getting a knock on their door from a city police detective back in July, asking if they had seen James, saying there was a warrant for his arrest. Still, neighbors said, they never saw or heard any violent behavior.

On his Facebook page, James said he attended college in Jamaica, and he often posted updates praising God.

"People always get the wrong impression of me. Then it turns arround [sic] that [I] am a realy [sic] nice guy," he wrote on the "bio" section of his page.

Dozens of officers in uniform or street clothes stood solemnly outside the emergency room entrance at Bayview Medical Center on Saturday night and into Sunday morning. There was little discussion as relatives of Stevenson continued to arrive deep into the morning.

As one group of officers walked to their cars to head home, they each shook hands and embraced.

"Be safe," they said to each other.

Stevenson was the second active-duty Baltimore police officer to die in the past month. In September, Officer James Fowler died after losing control of his vehicle while driving to a training program in Pennsylvania.

By Sunday evening, someone had planted the beginnings of a memorial to Stevenson in the parking lot where he fell. Two small balloons — one sporting an American flag, the other reading "Happy Birthday" — were bound together with a single white rose and placed in a pot. The unsigned card read: "Rest in Peace Detective Brian Stevenson."

Baltimore Sun reporter Nicole Fuller contributed to this article.

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Baltimore police detective funeral today

Motorists should expect delays in Randallstown, Arbutus

October 25, 2010|By Liz Kay, The Baltimore Sun

At a funeral this morning, family and friends will remember the life of a Baltimore police detective who died after an altercation over a Canton parking space.

Detective Brian Stevenson, who served 18 years on the Baltimore police force, was killed Oct. 16, an hour before his 38th birthday, after police said he was struck on the temple with a chunk of concrete.

Stevenson, who lived in Gwynn Oak, grew up in the city and as an officer investigated shootings and robberies in the Northeast District. The Dunbar High School graduate is the first city officer to die at the hands of another since Jan. 9, 2007, when Officer Troy Lamont Chesley Sr. was fatally shot during a robbery while off duty.

The funeral service was scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at New Antioch Baptist Church in Randallstown.

Drivers in the area may experience delays while police in Baltimore County escort the funeral procession from the church, on Old Court Road near Windsor Mill Road, to Liberty Road, said county police spokesman Lt. Robert McCullough. The procession will continue down Liberty Road to the Baltimore Beltway, he said.

Maryland State Police will escort the procession on the beltway to Arbutus. Stevenson will be buried at Arbutus Memorial cemetery, McCullough said.

#BPDNeverForget

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End of Watch 16 October 2010
City, St. 2800 block of Hudson St.
Panel Number N/A
Cause of Death Other
District Worked Criminal Investigation Division

Officer Francis Stransky

Friday, 01 November 2019 10:18

 

Officer Francis Stransky

On this day in Baltimore Police History 10 January 1964, we lost our brother Officer Francis Stransky to injury/illness based on the following:

1964 would become one of the most violent years in the History of the Baltimore Police Department. By year’s end five officer’s lives would end in the line of duty, and this day 1964 would be the day that kicked them all off, it would be the day we would lose the first of those five officers.

Officer Stransky was a five year veteran, he was an aggressive officer, that worked his beat, knew everyone and did his job by the book. It was coming up on 6 o’Clock maybe quarter of, when Officer Stransky was in the 500 block of Ensor St, and came across a 22 year old wise guy by the name of Larry G. Wadsworth. Wadsworth was acting disorderly and refused to cease his actions and move on, when told he was being placed under arrest he felt it was up to him to resist that arrest, and that the officer wouldn’t be able to subdue him. What he didn’t know was Stransky was tough, and he knew the laws, so he used just the amount force he was allowed by law, an amount of force determined by the amount of resistance shown from Wadsworth. So Officer Stransky followed the rules to the letter, and when he tried to subdue Wadsworth and found he was no match, he followed the progression of force going from hand-to-hand, to the introduction of his Espantoon. A few jabs, and a strike or two from the stick, and Wadsworth tapped out. Wadsworth was ready to stop by Mercy Hospital on the way to Men’s detention, and that’s just where he was taken. While at Mercy he was quickly treated for the lumps he took and off the two men walked to the Central District Police Station where he would be booked on disorderly, assault, and resisting arrest.

While Wadsworth was waiting in one of the holding cells, Stransky was in the roll call room, he began feeling odd, something between dizzy and lightheaded, before he could call for help he would collapse to the floor.

Officer Stransky would die before anyone really understood what was happening with him. 22-year-old Wadsworth came in on what would have been minor charges. But before he knew what was going on the fight he decided to put up against that arrest, and against the officer's authority would have him catching another charge. But worse than the charge it would make him a murderer. Because in addition to a simple disturbance of the peace, and resisting charges, Wadsworth was now being charged with the assault, and the manslaughter, that caused this patrolman’s death.

Behind Stransky’s death we would see four more fallen officers by 1964's years end, those would be officers Claude Profili, Walter Matthys, Teddy Brafford, and Sgt. Jack Cooper. From an officer with less than a week on the streets, to an officer with 17-years on the streets, each was a man of valor, each was a loss that to this day is felt deeply.

Francis R. Stransky, a 39-year-old husband, and father of two. A policeman in the Central District for five years, Francis enjoyed patrolling the area around Cicero’s and the Belair market. He liked the people in the area, and he liked seeing the rich history of Baltimore, as well he liked to grab a quick bite to eat in the Belair Market and the brotherhood he would find in the Baltimore Police Department.

As we take this time to remember him, and thank him for his service and sacrifice. We his brothers and sisters of the Baltimore Police Department will not let him be forgotten. God Bless and rest in Peace.

#BPDNeverForget

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Patrolman, 39, Dies After Subduing Man


Jan 11 1964

Patrolman Francis Stransky, 39, of the Central District collapsed and died after subduing a 23-year-old maintenance man in the 500 block of Endor Street last night. Police said the patrolman was involved in an altercation with the man, subdued him, escorted him for treatment to Mercy Hospital and took his prisoner to the Central District station before collapsing. He was pronounced dead at 6:55 PM police said an autopsy was scheduled. The man was held for investigation


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Man Charged With Murder

Jan 12 1964

A 22-year-old man was charged with homicide yesterday in the heart attack death of 39-year-old Central District Patrolman Francis Stransky. Police charge. Larry G Wadsworth of the 1500 block of Gorsuch Ave. with homicide late yesterday following their investigation into the death Friday night of Patrolman Francis Stransky Patrolman Stransky became involved in an altercation shortly before 6 PM Friday in the 500 block of Ensor Street police said. He was struck at least once in the process, but subdued his assailant, and brought him to Mercy Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The patrolman then took his prisoner to the central district station to book him. The policeman collapsed in the assembly room at the station and was pronounced dead at Mercy Hospital at 6:55 PM - The autopsy performed yesterday show patrolman Stransky died of a heart attack. Police said Wadsworth was then charged with assaulting the police officer and causing his death.

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End of Watch 10 January, 1964
City, St. 500 Block of Ensor St
Panel Number 28-E: 15
Cause of Death Heart Attack
District Worked Central

Patrolman Henry W Sudmeier

Friday, 01 November 2019 10:16

 

Patrolman Henry W Sudmeier

On this day 20 Dec 1934 in Baltimore Police History we lost our Brother Patrolman Henry W Sudmeier to accidental gun fire based on the following:

A little more than 8 years prior to his death Patrolman Henry Sudmeier was walking his beat in the Northern District. He was aware of a suspect robbing the poor boxes of local churches and of the Sacred Heart, so he stayed close to the Sacred Heart, a Catholic Church located at Mount Washington. It was during the night shift on a cool October night 1926, when he heard gunshots coming from inside the church, knowing of the recent poor box thefts, he grabbed his flashlight ( the papers back then called it an electric torch ) and ran in. Like all police he didn’t know what would be waiting for him inside, he didn’t know a suspect by the name Henry “Hank” Connelley, recently released from the Maryland State Penitentiary had entered the church earlier to steal money from the poor box. He didn’t know Captain Frank Gatch had set two plain clothes officers inside the church on a detail to catch “Hank” Connelley; he also didn’t know that when those detail officers, Patrolman Melvin Jackson and Patrolman Joseph Young, spotted Connelley and commanded him to “HALT”; Connelley would refuse and brake for the church entrance. This is what caused Officers Jackson and Young to begin firing on Connelley, and as a chain of events, it would be those gunshots that would cause Connelley to duck down near the pews where Officer Sudmeier was about to enter.

As Sudmeier entered the church he didn’t know lighting his flashlight would cause the young officers on this detail to mistake him for Connelley, and begin firing on him. Once shot Patrolman Sudmeier fell to the floor, Hank Connelley got up and started to run, but was quickly captured by Officers Jackson and Young. It was only as they were leaving the church that they would discover Officer Sudmeier was shot; he was lying there on the floor bleeding from a wound in the right side of his abdomen, (An extremely painful injury), but he didn’t say a word, not a single moan. So while one policeman handcuffed Hank Connelley, the other summoned an ambulance to hurry Patrolman Sudmeier to the hospital. Once there it was found that he has suffered a severe wound, and an operation was performed immediately. Surgeons were not confident regarding his chance for recovery.

Nonetheless Patrolman Sudmeier was as tough as they get, he had faith, and was optimistic. He also had one thing every good man has, and that was a good woman by his side. From his bed at Mercy Hospital he was recovering in leaps, and bounds, above what any of the doctors had expected. He would eventually be moved from Mercy Hospital to Mercy Villa, on Bellona Avenue. His condition was improving beyond expectations of the medical staff; he was able to get in and out of bed, to a wheelchair, (with assistance). He was paralyzed, so he knew he would never walk again. There is a certain amount of psychological grief, depression and other things to deal with when you learn of things like this; but at the time of his injury he was only about a year on the force, and a newlywed of just two months. His wife, Mrs. Lentha Sudmeier, gave him hope; she made him push forward, and without a single word made him work harder (I know the feeling, and the benefits of a good wife. In this type condition in front of the woman of your dreams, you don’t want to fail, so you give it everything you have.) Mrs. Ientha, came to the hospital to be with her husband every day, her love for him became his strength… and it seemed to be working – On one of his biggest nights of his life in the police force, came in June 1930 (It had been 4 years since being shot) and he was a guest of honor in the hospital auditorium where a party, or policemen’s ball was held. It was attended by 1800 patrolman of the day, the Police Commissioner “Charles D. Gaither” (he was the first PC in the modern police department, a department with just one commissioner instead of the board of commissioner that previously held the position) alongside the Commissioner was, Chief Inspector, George D Heary, Inspector Stephen G. Nelson and every captain on the force. Patrolman Henry W Sudmeier was about as proud as anyone could be that night. All that for him, all of it in front of his wife, and family it had to make them proud of him, it was a great day.

After that he was in and out of bed; he was able to be rolled out to the garden/park for some sun and fresh air. But unfortunately, his injuries were too many, and caused more weakness, with weakness came a decreased immune system, and before long infections were too much. He was taking several small steps forward, and then huge leaps back. This went on for four more years, looking good, and then looking bad, until an infection would set in that was so strong Officer Sudmeier would be forced to go back to Mercy Hospital. And like his first trip to Mercy eight year earlier; immediately upon his arrival surgeons would rush him in to surgery. They tried everything, still he steadily grew worse, and before long there was nothing they could do. Then on 19 Dec 1934 at 7:30 O’clock his death would come. Physicians said it was due to congestion of the lungs, brought on by his decreased vitality that was indirectly attributable to the gun-shot wound from eight years earlier. Patrolman Sudmeier was 36 years old at the time of his death.

As his brothers and sisters of the Baltimore Police Department we will not let him be forgotten, His service Honored the City of Baltimore, and the Baltimore Police Department may he rest in peace, and may God bless him.

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End of Watch 20 December, 1934
City, St. Mount Washington
Panel Number 37-E: 4
Cause of Death Gunfire
District Worked Northern

Detective Sean Suiter

Friday, 01 November 2019 10:04

 

Detective Sean Suiter

Hogan: Maryland offering $100,000 reward for information on person who killed Baltimore homicide detective

The state of Maryland is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for killing a Baltimore homicide detective, Gov. Larry Hogan announced on Twitter Thursday evening.

This money is in addition to the $69,000 reward being offered by local authorities and the Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland.

“My best hunch is more than one or two people know or suspect our killer was involved in this yesterday,” Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said at a Thursday news conference. “We’re asking those folks to do some soul searching and pick up the phone and give us a call.”

Det. Sean Suiter, an 18-year veteran of the city police force, was shot Wednesday afternoon while investigating another killing in the notoriously violent Harlem Park neighborhood in West Baltimore. The 43-year-old detective was a husband and father of five, who was described by other police as a dedicated officer. Suiter joined the city’s homicide unit in 2015.

“Everyone that worked with him loved him. Even when you were down he would smile with his mischievous smile and make everyone happy and feel at ease,” said Rick Willard, a retired officer who led a drug squad in the Western District of which Suiter was a member. “He is one of the best officers I ever worked with, and it breaks my heart.”

Suiter died just after noon Thursday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where officials say he was surrounded by his family.

Davis said police have encountered evidence suggesting the suspect was injured, but he did not elaborate. Police are searching emergency rooms and doctor’s offices for “anyone with an unexplained injury,” Davis said.

Hogan has also ordered the flags be flown at half-staff to honor Suiter.

Colleagues Remember Baltimore Detective Sean Suiter's Smile, Integrity 
"One of the Best Officers I ever Worked With"

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As a young patrolman assigned to the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore, Sean Suiter impressed his supervisor as a conscientious and poised officer who “operated beyond his years.”

“The writing was on the wall early in his career that he was going to ascend the ranks in any path he chose,” said Maj. Martin Bartness, who was Suiter’s sergeant 15 years ago.

On Wednesday, Suiter was back in Harlem Park — now 43 and a homicide detective, dressed in a suit and tie. Police say he was working a 2016 homicide case when a man shot him in the head.

Suiter, an 18-year veteran of the department, died shortly after noon Thursday. He leaves a wife and five children.

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis called Suiter “a wonderful detective, husband, father, and friend.”

“We remain dedicated and committed to finding the person who ended such a beautiful life,” Davis said. “We will find the person responsible for this ridiculous, absurd, unnecessary loss of life.”

Suiter’s colleagues remembered him Thursday as a dependable investigator who was often smiling.

“You will hear his smile come up again and again,” Bartness said. “He had the cheeks, and he was really quick with a smile. Whenever I think about Sean, it’s with a smile on his face. But he wasn’t clownish, and he was not the guy who was always ripping jokes. He was just very good-natured.”

Suiter was born and raised in Washington, Davis said. He served in the Army, officials said and lived in York County, Pa.

Det. Jonathan Jones was Suiter’s partner in the homicide unit. He was not with him when he was shot.

Jones said Suiter loved the Dallas Cowboys. He was known among detectives as “Face;” on the street, citizens knew him as “Scar.” Both referred to a facial scar.

Jones was with Suiter recently when someone shouted for Suiter. It was a man Suiter recalled chasing around the Western District. The man was now employed and thanked Suiter for the way he had interacted with him in the past.

“This was Suiter — a great guy, and an even better detective,” Jones said.

Rick Willard, a retired officer, led a drug squad on which Suiter served.

“He was not only a good cop, he was smart and smiled a lot,” he said. “Everyone that worked with him loved him. Even when you were down he would smile with his mischievous smile and make everyone happy and feel at ease.

“He is one of the best officers I ever worked with, and it breaks my heart.”

Capt. Torran Burrus supervised Suiter at two different points during his career, when he was a drug officer and later when he moved onto a district detective unit.

“He had a good keen eye for narcotics activity,” Burrus said.

He said Suiter was known for his good nature. The detective had a “contagious smile” and a penchant for cracking jokes.

Former Baltimore prosecutor Jeremy Eldridge called Suiter “a man with integrity.”

“He was one person you could always count on,” Eldridge said. “Every time I called him, he answered.”

Eldridge said he worked with Suiter on many drug cases.

“He worked tirelessly to put together very well-thought-out cases,” Eldridge said.

Suiter joined the city’s homicide unit in 2015. The first case he closed was the killing of Kendal Fenwick, a young father gunned down in Park Heights. Devante Brim has been charged with first-degree murder in Fenwick’s death. His first trial ended in a mistrial in June. He is scheduled to be tried again next year.

Suiter was listed as the arresting detective for Elias Josael Jimenes Alvarado, the Salvadoran national convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of two women in Northwest Baltimore in 2016. A jury in August found Alvarado guilty in the deaths of Ranarda Williams and Annquinette Dates.

Before joining the homicide unit, Suiter worked in the citywide shootings unit, which investigates non-fatal shootings.

In an email to the department, Davis said Suiter’s “tragic death will forever impact the BPD.”

“Each of you goes out there and put your lives on the line every single day,” Davis wrote. “The importance of your sacrifice and Sean’s can’t be overstated.”

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Baltimore Police Detective has Died, Department Seeks 'Heartless, Ruthless, Soulless Killer' in Shooting

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The Baltimore homicide detective who was shot in the head Wednesday while conducting an investigation has died, police said.

Police identified the officer as Det. Sean Suiter, an 18-year veteran of the city police force and a husband and father of five. In an email to the department, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said he died surrounded by his family.

“His tragic death will forever impact the BPD,” Davis wrote in the email obtained by The Baltimore Sun. “Each of you go out there and put your lives on the line every single day. The importance of your sacrifice and Sean’s can’t be overstated.”

Baltimore Police and their federal partners continued a massive manhunt Thursday for the suspect. Authorities offered a $69,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Davis said outside of Maryland Shock Trauma that police had “investigative leads” that they were pursuing, but were pleading for anyone with information to come forward.

“My best hunch is more than one or two people know or suspect our killer was involved in this yesterday,” Davis said. “We’re asking those folks to do some soul searching and pick up the phone and give us a call.”

Police say Suiter was shot in a notoriously violent section of the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore while investigating another killing. An entire city block remained cordoned off Thursday morning as police scoured the area and cadets began canvassing door to door for information.

Mayor Catherine Pugh reiterated Thursday that crime in the city was “out of control,” and asked residents to pray.

“He was well-respected, and he will be very sorely missed by everyone,” Pugh said.

Davis said late Wednesday that Suiter was in the neighborhood doing “followup” on a homicide case when he saw a man engaged in suspicious activity. Suiter attempted to speak to the man, Davis said, and was shot.

A police source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly, said Suiter was in the neighborhood trying to find a witness for a pending case when he and another detective saw someone suspicious in a vacant lot in the middle of the 900 block of Bennett Place.

The two detectives split up, apparently to try to cover different exits of the block when the shooting occurred, the source said.

Davis said that police had encountered evidence to suggest the suspect was injured but did not elaborate. He said police were searching emergency rooms and doctor’s offices for “anyone with an unexplained injury.”

Authorities asked anyone with information to contact the Baltimore FBI office at 1-800-CALL-FBI, Baltimore police detectives at 410-396-2100, or Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7-LOCK-UP. Tips can also be texted to Baltimore police via 443-902-4824.

The reward is being offered by the Baltimore divisions of the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, and Metro Crime Stoppers.

Gov. Larry Hogan ordered the state flag to be flown at half-staff, and in a statement that the “individual responsible for this heinous crime will be found, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”

“Baltimore Police has our full support as they track down this violent criminal and bring him to justice,” he said.

Suiter’s shooting, which occurred about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, was the second of a law enforcement officer in West Baltimore this month. Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., 40, a District of Columbia police officer who lived in Baltimore, was shot to death in the 2800 block of Elgin Avenue on Nov. 4. He was off-duty at the time.

The last Baltimore Police officer to die in the line of duty was Officer Craig Chandler, who in November 2014 crashed into a utility pole while pursuing a moped. In 2011, Officer William Torbit was fatally shot in a friendly fire incident while trying to break up a crowd outside a nightclub.

The last city officer fatally shot by a suspect in the line of duty was Officer Troy Chesley, who was off-duty but took action as a suspect attempted to rob him. Chesley’s son, Trayvon, was fatally shot earlier this year.

There have been 309 homicides in Baltimore in 2017, the third straight year of more than 300 killings.

Davis said police remained in Harlem Park trying to find “every bit of evidence” they could to help identify the shooter.

“This is going to be a long night for detectives and investigators,” he said.

Pugh said, “enough is enough.”

“Crime has to come to an end in the city,” she said. “This kind of violence cannot be tolerated.”

Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said she knew Suiter from her work as a trial prosecutor. “I know firsthand his love and passion for serving the citizens of Baltimore and fighting crime. We have lost a true gem today,” she said in a statement Thursday.

Mosby called the shooting an “act of cowardice.” She said she wanted his family to know it would not go unpunished.

“I want them to rest assured that we will do our part to ensure that the perpetrator of this offense is brought to justice,” she said.

Police union president Gene Ryan and Lisa Robinson of the Vanguard Justice Society both asked for the community’s support for police officers to solve not only the shooting of the detective but other violent crimes in the city.

“Your help is necessary for the job that we do,” said Robinson, whose organization represents minority and female officers.

For hours after Suiter was shot Wednesday night, officers maintained a wide perimeter around the 900 block of Bennett Place, with officers taking cover around corners and the police helicopter, Foxtrot, swirling low. Police used the helicopter loudspeaker to tell people to go inside their homes, and a county tactical vehicle arrived later.

The location, just northwest of U.S. 40 and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is a particularly violent one. More than a dozen people have been shot or killed there in recent years.

Two people were shot near the corner, one of them fatally, on July 18, and three people were killed in a single incident last December. After a particularly violent spate in 2013, police barricaded the block and stationed an officer there around the clock.

The area was targeted for increased policing again this summer after the separate killings of two 15-year-old boys in August — including one right at the intersection of Bennett and Fremont.

Jeffrey Quick was shot to death on the corner on Aug. 22. Tyrese Davis was killed down the street earlier in the month.

After those killings, Maj. Sheree Briscoe, the Western District commander, said the area would be targeted with increased policing, but also with other city services — the approach Pugh has touted as a holistic way to address crime.

Baltimore Sun reporters Colin Campbell and Talia Richman contributed to this story.


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A veteran Baltimore police detective died in the hospital today, one day after he was shot in the head by an unknown gunman, police said.

Homicide detective Sean Suiter, an 18-year veteran with the Baltimore Police, was conducting a follow-up to a homicide investigation around 5 p.m. Wednesday when he saw a man engaging in suspicious activity, police said.

Suiter approached the man and was shot in the head shortly after, police said.

The officer's partner was nearby and rushed over to render aid, they added.

PHOTO: Police officers respond to Bennett Place and N. Fremont Avenue after a call went out that an officer is shot, Nov. 15, 2017, in Baltimore, Md.
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Police officers respond to Bennett Place and N. Fremont Avenue after a call went out that an officer is shot, Nov. 15, 2017, in Baltimore, Md.

PHOTO: Police commissioner Kevin Davis, center, talks to the press after a police officer was shot, as States Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby, left, and Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, right, stand nearby, Nov. 15, 2017, in Baltimore, Md.
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Police commissioner Kevin Davis, center, talks to the press after a police officer was shot, as State's Attorney for Baltimore Marilyn Mosby, left, and Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, right, stand nearby, Nov. 15, 2017, in Baltimore, Md.

The officer was immediately taken to the hospital and placed on life support, a hospital official said.

Suiter was in "very, very grave condition" Wednesday evening and was fighting "for his life," Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.

Suiter, 43, died around noon today, authorities said.

He was a married father of five.

Davis said today that Suiter was "a loved guy" who "loved being a cop."

We have lost our best. When I was a new sgt in the WD, Det Suiter was my rock. He knew his post; colleagues & citizens respected him. He was the man u wanted investigating ur case & patrolling ur neighborhood. Quick with a smile & big of heart, he is dearly missed. RIP, my friend

As police hunt for his killer, authorities said evidence suggests the suspect may have been wounded.

Davis on Wednesday described the at-large suspect as "cold" and "callous."

"The individual responsible for this heinous crime will be found, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan wrote on Twitter. "The Baltimore Police Department has our full support as they track down this violent criminal and bring him to justice."

"May God bless the brave men and women of the Baltimore Police and all law enforcement who serve and protect us every single day," he added.

The individual responsible for this heinous crime will be found, charged, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. @BaltimorePolice has our full support as they track down this violent criminal and bring him to justice.

May God bless the brave men and women of the @BaltimorePolice and all law enforcement who serve and protect us every single day.

A $69,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the suspect's arrest.

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End of Watch 16 November 2017
City, St. Bennett Place and N. Fremont Avenue
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Patrolman Harry Sullivan

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Patrolman Harry Sullivan

7 Dec 1927

1927 - 7 Dec 1927 - Patrolman Harry Sullivan, 37 years old, of Central District Police died today (7 Dec 1927) at his home 514 Hurleys Lane as a result of an attack of indigestion and heart trouble.  Sullivan was feeling ill when he went off duty Tuesday evening and reported sick last night. He had been on the police force since 14 July 1921

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End of Watch 7 April 1927
City, St. 514 Hurleys Lane
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Lt. Owen E. Sweeney, Jr.

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A veteran city police lieutenant helping his fellow officers on a routine call was killed yesterday afternoon after he was hit by a shotgun blast fired through a wooden door at a Northeast Baltimore home. Lt. Owen E. Sweeney, Jr., 47, who was one month shy of his 29th anniversary with the department, was pronounced dead at 4:04 p.m. after more than three hours of surgery at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. He is survived by his wife and two sons. Friends say Lt. Sweeney was counting the days to retirement, and had just bought a 28 foot cabin cruiser that was to be delivered next week. Last night police charged Baron Michael Cherry, 41, of the 5900 Block of Bertram Avenue with first degree murder and using a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony… Officers who knew the lieutenant – the first city officer killed in the line of duty in four years – praised their supervisor for favoring street work over paperwork. On Tuesday, he had been the first officer to confront a man holding an Uzi semiautomatic weapon during a robbery attempt at the Northwood Shopping Center. It wasn’t beneath him, “because he wore a gold badge, to do police work with the rest of us,” said Officer John D. Platt, a friend and 14-year veteran. Yesterday, Lt. Sweeney was doing paperwork in his office when he heard a call on the radio summoning officers to a house on Bertram Avenue in Hamilton. He quickly joined his officers at the house.  Lt. Sweeney tried to talk to the man behind a closed wooden door to an apartment at the top of a second-floor stairwell. “We’re here to help you, we’re not here to hurt you,” Lt. Sweeney said, according to Platt who was standing next to him. The officers and Lt. Sweeney turned and started to walk downstairs when the shotgun blast blew away part of the door. Lt. Sweeney, struck in the lower left back, collapsed into Officer Platt’s arms. Officers pulled him down the stairs and outside. Moments later, Platt said, Cherry walked out of the room, unarmed and with his hands in the air, and apologized. He struggled with police as they placed him in custody.

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'It's my fault, I'm sorry,' suspect's weeping wife says of officer's death No guns in apartment, she told police before lieutenant was killed

She forgot about shotgun
Mentally disturbed man held without bail in lieutenant's death

May 09, 1997|By Peter Hermann | Peter Hermann,SUN STAFF Sun staff writers Marilyn McCraven and Thomas W. Waldron contributed to this article. One of the first questions police officers asked Denise Cherry when they came to help her distraught husband was if there were any guns inside the couple's Hamilton apartment. No, she said emphatically. But she forgot about the 16-gauge shotgun tucked in the back of the bedroom closet -- a gift of more than a decade ago.

Police said Baron Michael Cherry, a 41-year-old mentally disturbed man who frustrated his wife by refusing to take his medication, used the bolt-action shotgun to fatally shoot a veteran police lieutenant in the back Wednesday afternoon. "It's my fault, I'm sorry," the suspect's wife cried out during an emotional interview yesterday in which she sobbed and offered prayers for the family of slain Lt. Owen E. Sweeney Jr. "I would never have imagined that that weapon was accessible," Mrs. Cherry said, struggling to talk about her husband's good side without offending the victim's family. "When the officers asked if there were any weapons or guns inside, I said no." Police commanders said they would have handled the situation much differently had they known about the gun -- calling for tactical officers to negotiate instead of standing outside the apartment door.

Mrs. Cherry, unable to get her husband committed for psychiatric care, had called police, hoping they could do what doctors could not. Officers were trying to coax Cherry out when he allegedly answered with a profanity and a shotgun blast that splintered a closed wooden door and hit Sweeney in the lower back. Relatives of the slain officer were too distraught to talk yesterday, and even asked that police officers refrain from visiting their home in Harford County. Flags in Baltimore were ordered flown at half-staff, and a moment of silence was %J observed in the State House.

More than a thousand officers are expected to attend the funeral Monday at St. Margaret Roman Catholic Church in Bel Air to pay tribute to Sweeney, a 28-year veteran officer who leapt at every chance to escape his desk and hit the streets. A motorcade route from the church to the interment site at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens has not yet been set. The procession for slain State Trooper Ted Wolf in 1990 stretched 16 miles along the Baltimore Beltway and Interstate 83. Police chaplains went to station houses yesterday and talked to shaken officers, who were allowed to take the day off if they needed time to recover. Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke called Sweeney "an outstanding officer" and said "he certainly will be missed by all of us in this community."

Sweeney is survived by his wife, Elaine D. Sweeney, 47; and two sons, Owen E. Sweeney III, 25, and Frank P. Sweeney, 22. While the lieutenant's family was making funeral arrangements yesterday, District Judge Askew W. Gatewood Jr. ordered Cherry held without bail, scheduled a psychiatric evaluation and placed the suspect under a suicide watch. The suspect said, "No, sir," when the judged asked if had any comment. Cherry, charged with first-degree murder, could face the death penalty if convicted. But Schmoke said yesterday it will be "a tough call for the prosecutor" because of the suspect's questionable mental state.

Mrs. Cherry, 36, said yesterday that her husband of 13 years suffered a breakdown seven years ago. "He was hearing voices, and [said] there were white worms crawling on his head." Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital had diagnosed him as a paranoid-schizophrenic. Sitting at the kitchen table inside her second-floor apartment in the 5900 block of Bertram Ave. in Northeast Baltimore, Mrs. Cherry tried to talk about the good times with her husband, about how they met at a local bar. She was a customer, and he played the drums in a band called After Dark. Her table was strewn with snapshots of him taken before his breakdown: dressed casually in an open-collar shirt and vest at their wedding; standing at a vacation Bible school with two young nieces; and with his pet Shih Tzu dog, named Ollie.

But the last seven years, in which her husband became a virtual recluse, was constantly on her mind. She said he ventured outside only to walk his dog and went into profanity-laced tirades at television game-show hosts. Mrs. Cherry tried to recall the good times but repeatedly returned to the troubled present. "The first six years were wonderful," she said calmly one moment, only to break out into tears and run from the room the next. Properly medicated, Cherry -- a 1974 graduate of Eastern Vocational-Technical High School in Essex -- scrubbed kitchen floors and cooked dinner; without his pills, he became afraid. He ran around the house locking doors and called people whores. "His paranoia is people, and people are everywhere," Mrs. Cherry said. "He thought people were aliens."

Mrs. Cherry said her husband started refusing his medication three weeks ago because one of the two drugs prescribed made him tired. She said she repeatedly took him to the Harford-Belair Community Mental Health Center, where doctors wanted him to take injections. Cherry refused, and his wife said doctors at the center would not admit him to a hospital. Finally, minutes after noon on Wednesday, with her husband growing increasingly agitated, she picked up the phone and dialed 311 -- the city's nonemergency phone number. Five officers came to the house and "repeatedly asked Mrs. Cherry if her husband had access to a weapon inside the apartment and she repeatedly told them no," said Agent Robert W. Weinhold Jr., a police spokesman.

Back at the Northeastern District station, Sweeney was at his desk engulfed in paperwork, listening to the action unfold on his police radio. It wasn't going well and "he wanted to make sure it was properly supervised," said his colleague, Lt. Carl Gutberlet. Police said Sweeney also asked Mrs. Cherry if there were any guns inside the apartment, and confident of her negative response, stood in front of the door and tried to coax the man outside. "They were trying to end this peacefully," said Officer Gary McLhinney, the police union president.

Mrs. Cherry, who was standing on the lawn on the left side of her house, said her husband walked over to a window and made an obscene gesture to an officer, who she said laughed. About two minutes later, she heard her husband scream a profanity, which was followed by a shotgun blast and the frantic cries: "Officer down." She said the shotgun had been a gift and she never saw her husband take it out. She kept the shells in another room, mixed in with knicknacks. There was little evidence yesterday of the violence that erupted at the house a day before. Police took the splintered door away as evidence, and the blood on the side of the house was scrubbed away. A plaque still hung yesterday above the front door, through which the wounded Sweeney was carried out. It says: "Lord, help me hang in there."

Funeral plans

The funeral service for Lt. Owen E. Sweeney Jr. is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday at St. Margaret Roman Catholic Church at 141 Hickory Ave. in Bel Air. The viewing is at Schimunek Funeral Home at 610 W. McPhail Road in Bel Air Saturday and Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interment will be at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

Pub Date: 5/09/97

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Patrolman John Edward Swift

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Patrolman John EDWARD SWIFT - Was involved in an altercation during his shift, injured so badly he had to be taken home (carried by his fellow officers) he never made back to work, he died from injuries to his spleen, some said it was a heart attack, in either case it came about as a result of the fight he had that night. All I have is it happened in 1923

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City, St. Baltimore, Md
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