Grand Jury Returns Indictments Against Teens Charged In Officer's Killing

RadioOnFire.com - The teenagers charged in the killing of a Baltimore County police officer were indicted Wednesday by a grand jury.

Officer Amy Caprio was run down May 21 while responding to call regarding a suspicious vehicle in Perry Hall.

Derrick Matthews, 15, Darrell Ward, 16, and Eugene Genius, 17, are accused of burglarizing a house on Linwen Way while Dawnta Harris, 16, waited outside in a Jeep and the fatal encounter occurred. The teens were indicted on charges of first-degree murder, burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary.

According to the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office, under Maryland law, if an individual is involved in the commission of a burglary and a person is killed during the commission of that offense, then the individual has committed a first-degree murder.

Source WBAL