Dawnta Harris, 16, has been identified as the person in custody for the suspected murder of a Baltimore Police Officer that was responding to a report of suspicious activity and a burglary in progress in the Perry Hall area of Baltimore County. Harris was arrested on suspicion of killing Officer Amy Caprio, a Baltimore Police Officer, and will be charged as an adult. He has been charged with first-degree murder.
According to authorities, Harris has a history of grand theft auto and has been arrested multiple times in the past. Harris and the other suspects fled the scene and were at large, but all four have since been taken into custody.
Caprio was shot on Linwen Way before being taken to Medstar Franklin Square. She was pronounced dead a short time after arriving.
via Baltimore Sun:
The documents say Caprio was responding to a call around 2 p.m. Monday on Linwen Way to investigate a suspicious vehicle in the area. A 911 caller reported a black Jeep Wrangler near her home, and said three “suspicious subjects got out of it and were walking around homes.” The caller said then said the suspects had broken into the home, and that the first arriving officer was on the ground after confronting the driver of the Jeep.
The Jeep was later found abandoned nearby, in front of a home in the 9500 block of Dawnvale Road in Nottingham, and officers located Harris about a block from where the Jeep was parked, the documents said. Harris was later interviewed at police headquarters, where he admitted to investigators that he was sitting in the driver seat while the three other suspects committed a burglary.
He told officers he saw Caprio drive up the block and that she got out of her car and demanded that the get out of the Jeep. Instead, he “drove at the officer,” the documents said.
Harris was scheduled to appear in Towson district court for a bail review hearing on Tuesday, May 22. Harris lives at 1600 block of Vincent Court, in the Gilmor Homes complex in West Baltimore.
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