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Maryland cop charged with murder in shooting of handcuffed man

A Maryland police officer was arrested and charged with second-degree murder Tuesday after the fatal shooting of a man who was handcuffed in a police cruiser, according to CBS affiliate WUSA-TV. Corporal Michael Owen Jr. is also being charged with manslaughter and associated weapons charges in the death of William Green.

Chief Hank Stawinski called the announcement "the most difficult moment of my tenure as your Chief of Police," according to WUSA-TV.

Police initially said Monday that they received a 911 call at about 8 p.m. reporting a male driver who had struck multiple cars, WUSA-TV reported. Officers said they located Green and thought he was under the influence after smelling what they believed to be PCP in his car.

Police added that they handcuffed Green and buckled him into the front seat of a police cruiser. Two independent witnesses claimed they heard or saw a fight in the front seat and heard loud bangs, according to police. They added that Owen shot Green multiple times, and that lifesaving measures were attempted before he was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Stawinski walked back some of those claims on Tuesday.

"We do not believe PCP was involved, we do not have independent witnesses that observed a struggle and we do not know for certain that Mr. Green was seat-belted in that cruiser," Stawinksi said, according to WUSA-TV. He added that seating Green in the front of the car is standard departmental procedure when the vehicle does not have a transport partition, which Owen's cruiser did not.

Police said Owen was not wearing a body camera. He has worked with the department for 10 years, and is assigned to the Bureau of Patrol.

Green's family is represented by Billy Murphy, the attorney who represented the family of Freddie Gray, according to Murphy's office.
 
Well he’s a coon cop.. They get different treatment...

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Should've fucking known. I really thought......
 
The pig department did try to help out him in beginning with the whole “he was on PCP and uncontrollable“ excuse they use for when they execute a black man.. But then the rest of their narrative started to fall apart.. So then they decided to throw corporal coon under the bus...
 
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Everybody knows weed & black is more dangerous than white and pcp
 

In 2011, the department placed Corporal Owen, an officer at the time, on administrative leave after he shot and killed a Landover, Md., man who the police said had pointed a gun at him. Corporal Owen had pulled over to the side of the road to check on the man, who was lying in the grass, police said.

In the early 2000s, the United States Department of Justice investigated the Prince George’s County Police Department over a spate excessive force complaints and the department’s canine unit procedures.

The parallel investigations led to a memorandum of understanding between the Justice Department and the county police, which agreed to create a review board for firearm discharge cases and a risk management system for officers’ performance. The police department also agreed to investigate and review misconduct allegations.


During the news conference on Tuesday, a local resident confronted county officials about police shootings.

“We understand you’re upset,” Angela D. Alsobrooks, the Prince George’s County executive, said. “We get it. I promise you we will not minimize it.”

This is second person this pig has killed...
 

Family of man killed by Prince George’s County police officer demands justice

The family of a man shot to death by a police officer in Prince George’s County, Maryland, is speaking about their loss and the justice they say the victim, William Howard Green, deserves.

They also want an investigation into police Cpl. Michael Owen’s past conduct.

“William Green was my best friend, my protector and, most importantly, he was my daddy,” Brenda Green said at a news conference Thursday.

She and other family members demanded justice for the 43-year-old D.C. man, who was killed Monday night.

“I dreamt of the day when my daddy could be able to walk me down the aisle. I wanted him to see his future grandchildren,” said Brenda Green, holding back tears.

Owen is charged with second-degree murder. According to charging documents, he shot Green while the man was handcuffed inside Owen’s police cruiser. There was no evidence of a struggle before the shooting, documents said.

During Thursday’s news conference, attorney Billy Murphy noted that the family needs to be made whole through compensation and through justice being served.

“We’re asking that there be a thorough investigation, not only into this incident, but also into this officer’s past use of force,” Murphy said.

The Green family hopes to see Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy and police Chief Hank Stawinksi keep their promises, Murphy said, “to thoroughly investigate it, to release a report about his prior conduct, and to make sure that justice is done in this case.”

Prosecutors are reviewing a 2011 fatal shooting involving Owen.
 

Arrest of Md. Officer in Suspect’s Death Reopens Wound for Family of Man Killed by Same Officer

The arrest of a Prince George's County police officer on a murder charge reopened a painful wound for the family of a man killed years ago by the same officer.

Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. shot and killed a handcuffed William Green Monday night in his police cruiser, police said.

That wasn’t the first time he killed a man while on the job.

Owen shot and killed 35-year-old Rodney Edwards in December 2011 in front of Edwards’ Palmer Park home.

Police said Owen was leaving a Toys for Tots event at police headquarters when he saw Rodney Edwards lying in a grassy area on the side of Greenleaf Road. Police said Owen, who was in uniform, stopped to help Edwards, but Edwards pointed a gun at him, so Owen shot him.

Edwards’ family never believed he was armed, saying he didn’t carry a gun.

“I’m hoping that somebody will reopen this investigation and see that my nephew was wrongly killed,” Nathan Edwards said.

He called the state’s attorney Wednesday morning asking them to take another look at his nephew’s case.

Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said she has assigned a senior assistant state’s attorney to look at the evidence in the case to see if there’s enough there to reopen it.

Owen, a 10-year veteran of the department, is charged with second-degree murder, involuntary and voluntary manslaughter, first-degree assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence for Green’s death.

“It was a big relief,” Green’s fiancée said after the charges were announced Tuesday. “I feel like justice will be serviced even though I'm hurting and I'm grieving."

Police received a call about a traffic accident in the area of St. Barnabas Road and Winston Street in Temple Hills about 7:20 p.m. Monday, police said.

Witnesses told Owen and another officer that a man had struck their vehicles.

Officers found the suspected driver, the 43-year-old Green, asleep in his car nearby, police said.

The officers believe he was impaired, removed him from his car, handcuffed him behind his back and put him in the front passenger seat of Owen's cruiser while waiting for a drug recognition expert to arrive, police said. Owen got in the driver's seat next to Green.

Putting a suspect in the front of a cruiser that does not have a partition between the front and back seats allows the officer to maintain control of the suspect, Prince George’s County Police Chief Hank Stawinski said.

A witness said he heard gunshots about 5-10 minutes later and went to the cruiser and saw Green still handcuffed in the passenger's seat and suffering from gunshot wounds, according to court documents.

Owen fired his gun seven times, striking Green multiple times, according to court documents.
 

Prosecutors review 2011 shooting by Md. officer charged in handcuffed man’s killing

Prosecutors in Prince George’s County, Maryland, are now reviewing a 2011 fatal shooting by the same police officer who was charged after a handcuffed man was shot and killed inside his cruiser Monday night.

Earlier Wednesday, Cpl. Michael Owen, 31, was ordered held without bond on second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of William Howard Green.

Green, 43, of D.C., was sitting in Owen’s cruiser with his hands handcuffed behind his back when he was shot seven times Monday night in Temple Hills, Maryland.

Prince George’s County District Court Judge Robert Heffron Jr. said Wednesday that he found convincing evidence that Owen posed a danger to the community. Owen’s defense attorney had asked for him to be freed without bond.


A spokeswoman confirmed to WTOP that the Prince George’s County state’s attorney’s office is now looking into a 2011 shooting in which Owen shot and killed 35-year-old Rodney D. Edwards.

The deadly 2011 shooting
The shooting in 2011 happened after Owen said the man, who was lying on the side of the road, pulled a gun on him. Owen never faced charges in Edwards’ death.

A senior prosecutor has been assigned to the case and is obtaining evidence from the 2011 shooting, spokeswoman Denise Roberts told WTOP. The request to review the earlier case came from Edwards’ family after Owen was charged in Green’s killing this week, Roberts said.

The 2011 shooting happened the week before Christmas, when Owen was leaving the department’s annual “Toys for Tots” event, according to a police news release from the time.

Owen was in uniform but in an unmarked car when he said he saw Edwards lying in the grass on the side of Greenleaf Road in Landover. When Owen stopped to check on the man, he said Edwards pulled a handgun and pointed it at him.

According to media reports at the time, Owen fired several shots at Edwards, who was taken to the hospital and later died. Owen was placed on administrative leave at the time, per standard procedure, but was never charged.

Charging docs: No sign of struggle before Monday night’s shooting
Charging documents filed in the more recent shooting shed some additional light on what happened Monday night, but key questions — such as why Owen opened fire — remain.

Owen, a 10-year veteran of the county police force, was not wearing a body-worn camera at the time of the shooting.

Prince George’s County police officials have said they can find no “reasonable explanation” for why Owen shot Green. Police Chief Hank Stawinski, who announced the charges Tuesday evening, called Owen’s actions a crime.

According to court documents filed by prosecutors, investigators found no evidence of a struggle before the shooting, and just moments after the shots were fired, a witness saw Green still seated and handcuffed in the front of the car, suffering from several gunshot wounds.

Before the shooting Monday night, Owen had been dispatched to the area of St. Barnabas Road and Winston Street in Temple Hills around 8 p.m. Monday for the report of a traffic incident with an injury. Witnesses on the scene told police that Green had struck their vehicle.

Green, who was still in his car nearby, was sleeping, according to the charging documents. Officers said, initially, they thought he was under the influence of something.

Green was handcuffed behind his back and placed in the front passenger seat of Owen’s cruiser, which is standard procedure if an officer’s cruiser does not have a partition.

Green was inside the police cruiser for about five to 10 minutes before he was shot, according to the charging documents. After a witness heard the gunshots, he went to the police cruiser, and that’s when he saw Green, still seated and handcuffed, according to the documents.

On the night of the shooting, police said two independent witnesses — not police officers — told investigators they either saw or heard a struggle coming from the cruiser before the shooting. But, by the following day, those accounts could no longer be corroborated, according to a police source.

The charging documents specifically state: “The investigation failed to uncover any evidence of an altercation” between Green and Owen.

When paramedics arrived after Green was shot, he was still handcuffed behind his back, according to the documents. Green was taken the hospital, where he died.

A search later of both the police cruiser and Green’s car turned up no weapons.

In addition to second-degree murder, Owen has been charged with voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, first-degree assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence.

Owen was placed on administrative leave after the shooting and was arrested Tuesday.
 

Bond denied for officer in handcuffed man's fatal shooting

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — A judge denied bond Wednesday for a Maryland police officer who has been charged with murder after being accused of fatally shooting a handcuffed man in his patrol car.

Judge Robert Heffron Jr. said he found convincing evidence that Prince George's County Police Cpl. Michael Owen Jr. posed a danger to the community. Owen's defense attorney had asked for him to be freed without bond.

Investigators didn't find any evidence of a fight between Owen and William Howard Green before Green was fatally shot in the front passenger seat of a patrol car, police said in a report on a murder charge against the officer.

That finding contradicted statements on the night of the shooting by a department spokeswoman, who told reporters that two “independent witnesses” said they saw or heard a struggle "of some sort" coming from the patrol car before they heard loud bangs.

Owen fired seven shots at Green and struck him multiple times, said the report on Monday's shooting.

A prosecutor, Renee Joy, said Green had complied with officers' commands when he was taken out of the car and handcuffed and posed “absolutely no threat."

Supporters of Green clapped after the judge denied bail for Owen, whose next court date is set for Feb. 28.


“Thank you, Jesus,” a woman who identified herself as Green's fiancee said outside the courtroom after the brief hearing. She referred questions to an attorney representing the family. The attorney, William “Billy” Murphy, didn't immediately respond to an email and telephone message seeking comment Wednesday.

Owen had handcuffed Green, 43, of Washington, D.C., behind his back and placed him in the cruiser after responding to a traffic accident and finding him sleeping in his vehicle, apparently under the influence of an unknown substance, said the report released Wednesday.

About five to 10 minutes after Owen placed Green in his cruiser, a witness heard gunshots and saw the wounded man still seated in the front passenger seat with his hands cuffed behind his back, police said.

Investigators did not find any weapons in Green's possession or in his vehicle. Witnesses told officers Green had struck their vehicle, police said in a news release.

Owen a 10-year veteran of the force, was arrested Tuesday on charges of second-degree murder, voluntary and involuntary manslaughter, first-degree assault and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence.

Prince George's County Police Chief Hank Stawinski said during a news conference Tuesday that he asked his special investigations response team to file the charges. Stawinski called the announcement the most difficult of his tenure as police chief.

“I am unable to come to our community this evening and provide you with a reasonable explanation for the events that occurred last night," the chief told reporters. “I concluded that what happened last night is a crime.”

During an earlier news conference, police department spokeswoman Christina Cotterman had said two witnesses told police they either saw or heard a struggle before the shooting. Cotterman also said officers smelled PCP and believed the man was under the influence of that drug. However, Stawinski later said PCP did not appear to have been involved and that no account of a struggle in the cruiser could be corroborated.

John Mathis, the son of Green’s fiancee, told the Washington Post the family has cellphone videos witnesses took of the deadly encounter. Mathis said one of the videos shows officers trying to wake Green after his car crashed on the way home from a restaurant.

Green, the father of two adult children, was a Megabus luggage loader who was slated to be promoted to dispatcher Tuesday, according to Mathis.

“We have a lot of questions,” he told the Post.

Defense attorney Jonathon Scruggs said Owen is an ordained minister who is active in his church. He argued his client doesn't pose a danger to the community.

“This is not somebody off the street who is alleged to have committed a violent crime,” he said.

Owen wasn't in the courtroom but appeared on a video monitor from jail.

The shooting wasn't caught on body-camera video because the officer didn't have one, police said.

In a news release, police said a department directive permits officers to transport arrested suspects in the front passenger seat of patrol cars that don't have partitions. Owen's cruiser did not have a partition.

Owen is black. A police department spokeswoman wouldn't specify Green's race, citing department policy.

Owen has been involved in at least two other shootings during his time on the force. In 2011, he fatally shot a man who pointed a gun at him after Owen left an event at police headquarters, the department said. Owen was placed on administrative leave after that incident, but there is no indication whether additional action was taken.

In 2009, Owen was off-duty when someone tried to rob him outside his home, the Post reported. Police officials said the would-be robber fired, but Owen was not hit and returned fire. The assailant fled, according to police.

Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said in a statement Tuesday that her office will conduct a "thorough and independent investigation.”

“We will seek truth, and will vigorously pursue justice in a way that is fair and responsible,” Braveboy said.

This coon isn’t getting any kind of the typical pig privilege...
 
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