The Maryland Attorney General's office released the names of the Montgomery County police officer and the man he fatally shot this weekend.
The Maryland Attorney General’s Office identified a Montgomery County police officer and the 19-year-old man heProsecutors identified Franklin Castro Ordonez of Gaithersburg as the person police shot after officers were called for the report of multiple stabbings at about 10:30 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement released Monday. The officer who fired was identified in the statement as Officer Justin Lee, who has worked for the department for a year and a half.
Witnesses gave police information as they searched for the assailant, police said over the weekend. During the search a man armed with a butcher knife appeared in front of a police cruiser. An officer fired multiple rounds at the man with the knife and wounded him, officials said in their account.
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