The police chief of Prince George’s County described the charges -- filed a day after the shooting -- against officer Michael Owen Jr. as 'unprecedented.'
As the Post noted, some of Stawinski’s comments on Tuesday conflicted with the story originally told by police about the deadly shooting.
Police initially said that officers had responded to reports Monday night in Temple Hills, south of Washington, that a driver had rammed his car into several vehicles. Officials said they suspected the driver — later identified as Green — of being high on the psychedelic drug PCP. Stawinski said on Tuesday, however, that police no longer believed PCP was involved.
Green was taken into custody and cuffed with his arms behind his back. Police said initially that Green had been strapped into the passenger seat of a police cruiser, but Stawinski said he could not say with certainty that Green was seat-belted at the time of the shooting.Police on Monday said there was a struggle inside the cruiser before Green’s death, observed by two witnesses. But Stawinski said he could not corroborate the witnesses’ accounts of the tussle.
ABC7 reporter Sam Sweeney, citing multiple sources, said Green had asked to use the bathroom and was shot by Owen seven times “soon after.”Breaking: According to multiple sources, a Prince George’s County cop may face charges as soon as tonight after he shot and killed a handcuffed suspect who was seat-belted in his cruiser last night. The man reportedly asked to use the bathroom and soon after was shot 7 times.
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