Balto. Co. officer in shooting identified
Monday’s fatal incident
is second in two years
for 11-year police veteran
Baltimore County police have identified the officer involved in Monday’s fatal
Corporal Gonzalez, an 11-year veteran of the force, shot Derrick Alexander Sellman, 28, around 8:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Parkway Crossing shopping center, police said. Sellman, of the 2300 block of Walshire Ave. in Northeast Baltimore, was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he later died.
Under an agreement with the county police union, the department does not release the first names of officers involved in shootings.
Gonzalez was finishing his shift as a security guard Monday when another guard saw a black 2011 Chevrolet Suburban driving erratically. Gonzalez stopped the driver, Sellman, who opened the door, police said.
Police said that at some point Sellman accelerated the SUV, dragging or hitting Gonzalez. The SUV was then hit by a white 2016 Toyota Avalon, pinning the officer between that car’s door and the SUV. Gonzalez shot at Sellman, hitting him at least once, a police spokesperson said this week.
Gonzalez, who is now on administrative leave,
On March 13, 2017, Gonzalez and a second officer were approaching a car suspected to have been involved in a series of armed robberies.The driver of the vehicle reportedly accelerated toward the officers, who fired at the approaching vehicle and struck three men inside the car. One of the occupants, Rashad Daquan Opher, 20, died the next day.
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