A 28-year-old Prince George’s County, Maryland, police officer named Jacai Colson was shot and killed on Sunday in what authorities described as an “unprovoked attack” on a police station. From the Washington Post:
Police Chief Henry P. Stawinski III said a man walked up to the District III station and opened fire outside the front doors about 4:30 p.m. Officers rushed out to stop the attack. Officer Jacai Colson, 28, a four-year department veteran, was killed in the gunfight, the chief said.
Two brothers, Malik Ford and Michael Ford, were taken into custody in connection with the attack; one of them, believed to be the gunman who killed Colson, was shot by police during a firefight and is in stable condition. Neither had any immediately apparent connection to Colson, described in reports as an undercover narcotics detective, or any known motive at all.
“My understanding is [the gunman] opened fire on the first officer he saw and then continued that conduct as officers became aware of what was going on,” Reuters quotes Stawinski as saying.
Colson would have turned 29 this week.
