RadioOnFire.com - All four of the suspects in the death of Baltimore County police officer Amy Caprio are being charged with first-degree murder and burglary as adults.
A 16-year-old, identified as as Dawnta Anthony Harris, has been arrested and charged with with first-degree murder as an adult as court documents state that Harris admitted he "drove at the officer" when she told him to get out of a Jeep while accomplices burglarized a house.
The other three suspects are also teenagers; Eugene Genius,17, Darrell Ward, 16, and Derrick Matthews, 15.
"Your client in the last six months is a one-man crime wave," the judge told Harris' attorney. "I'm not sure any facility is secure enough to hold him."
High profile defense attorney Warren Brown, along with co-counsel Wyndall Gordon will represent Harris.
Maryland Secretary of Juvenile Services Sam J. Abed said his department is working with investigators and prosecutors. He said Harris was detained based on a writ from the department on April 17. Less than two weeks ago, he was placed on home monitoring in a May 10 detention hearing attended by prosecutors and public defenders. Abed's department wasn't a party to that hearing. On May 14, Harris' mother told authorities he was not home.
"Our staff contacted his mother on numerous occasions, we attempted to contact the youth through his cell phone," Abed said. "We went to his school and other locations he was known to frequent."
Police said the other three suspects are linked to burglaries in the area.
Officer Amy Caprio responded at around 2 p.m. to a call for a suspicious vehicle on Linwen Way. She was critically injured and was taken to MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, where she died around 2:50 p.m. An autopsy found Caprio died of traumatic injuries to the head and torso. Chief Terrence B. Sheridan said there was no evidence of a bullet wound.
Caprio was a three-year, 10-month veteran of the department. She was 29.
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