Baltimore County police said a 16-year-old has been arrested and charged in the death of police officer Amy Caprio on Monday, and three suspects are still being sought. Caprio was killed in a confrontation Monday as she responded to an afternoon call in Perry Hall, Md., near Baltimore, the Baltimore Sun reports. The department identified her as a four-year veteran. A witness saw the officer get hit by a vehicle.
The overnight search for the remaining suspects left nearly 2,000 students stranded in their schools well into the evening as police looked for the suspects, considered armed and dangerous. Police did not release a description of the suspects. They said Monday night that they recovered a Jeep that was involved in the crime. The incident began to unfold just before 2 p.m., when police received a call for a suspicious vehicle. Tony Kurek, 54, had just walked in the door of his home when his son, Dakota, shouted for him. “ ‘Dad, Dad, a cop just got run over out front,’ ” the father recalled his son saying. The officer was lying in the road in front of his house. Dakota told his father he had seen the officer draw her gun on a black Jeep Wrangler and ordered the people inside to get out. Instead, the driver sped forward, ramming the officer with the vehicle. She landed about 20 feet away.