Posted on 03/14/2016 6:35:45 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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Two of the brothers held in connection with the fatal shooting of a Prince George’s County officer on Sunday filmed the attack on a police station using their cell phones, according to three law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
FBI:
Check their family’s finances for sudden uptick from foreign sources.
There was a horrible car jacking in PG county, MD, years ago where the mother trying to save her baby in the back seat from the two car jackers already inside the car and driving away
got her arm caught in the car and was dragged for miles outside the car until there was not enough left of her to be described as a human being.
That caused huge outrage and revulsion at the time.
But the two carjackers DID NOT get the death penalty.
Year After Fatal Carjacking, Family’s Sorrow Lingers :
Maryland: Pam Basu was dragged to her death while trying to rescue her toddler.
The case prompted Congress to make the crime a federal felony. But that, and the conviction of the killers, provides no solace to Basu’s husband.
September 26, 1993|LAURA REHRMANN | ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-09-26/news/mn-39138_1_pam-basu-rodney-solomon-bernard-miller
SAVAGE, Md. — From Biswanath Basu’s small, toy-strewn front lawn, he can see the quiet intersection where his wife suffered the last terrifying moments of her life.
Every day, he relives those moments.
A year after Pam Basu, 34, was dragged to her death in a carjacking as she attempted to rescue her 2-year-old daughter, a “For Sale” sign stands in front of Basu’s two-story townhouse.
“It’s still very vivid and very painful,” Basu said recently, days before taking his wife’s ashes back to India for a Hindu ceremony meant to put her soul to rest.
Pam Basu’s death shocked people nationwide and prompted Congress to make carjacking a federal felony. Although her killers have been convicted and sentenced to life in prison, her husband can find no peace.
“I don’t even know how long it will take to get everything sort of settled,” he murmured. “Sometimes I seem to be able to do things normally. Other times I can’t.
“I have this continuing sorrow and void.”
As anti-theft devices become more sophisticated and more widespread, criminals are opting instead to take the car while the driver is in it, said Maryland state police spokesman Greg Shipley.
“It’s just one more thing that people have had to become aware of in the 1990s,” he said.
On Sept. 8, 1992, the Basu family was celebrating a happy milestone in daughter Sarina’s life. Basu was proudly videotaping his wife of 12 years taking Sarina to her first day of preschool when two men passed in the background.
Minutes later, as Pam Basu, a research chemist, stopped at an intersection 100 yards from her front door, two men pulled her from her BMW. As she fought to rescue her daughter, her arm became entangled in the seat belt and she was dragged almost two miles to her death.
Bernard Miller, 17, was convicted of murder in April and sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Rodney Solomon, 27, was convicted of murder in August and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
But despite the federal law and stiffer penalties enacted in Maryland and other states, motorists are still being victimized across the country:
* Yvonne Los, 32, a mother of two and an Air Force sergeant, was shot to death in May in Moreno Valley, Calif., when she refused to surrender her car. Police believe a group of teen-agers responsible for several carjackings had a policy of shooting uncooperative victims.
* Sherri Janine Foreman, 29, and her 13-week-old fetus were stabbed to death at a Sherman Oaks automatic teller last April by a man who demanded her car. The attacker fled without it, apparently because Foreman set off her car alarm.
* Less than a week later, Kathy May Lee, 27, was shot to death outside an Alhambra fabric store in front of her mother, apparently by a youth who wanted the Lexus she was driving. Lee had planned to shop for material for her wedding dress.
* One of the nation’s leading amateur boxers, Mark Rayner, 23, was shot to death in April near a Detroit gas station in a botched carjacking.
* Three men, the first to be convicted under the federal carjacking law, were sentenced in April to life in prison without parole for the execution-style slaying of two men during a November, 1992, carjacking in Osceola County, Fla.
In Maryland, 193 carjackings—none fatal—were reported in the first three months of this year, according to the latest state police data.
National statistics won’t be available until next year.
Pam Basu’s death still troubles many residents of Savage, an affluent suburb halfway between Washington and Baltimore.
“It’s one of those freaky things that happen,” Jean Daley said as she pushed her 4-month-old son, Andrew, in a stroller across the intersection where Pam Basu’s car was taken.
She said she still feels safe, but takes more precautions.
“The one thing I do now is I lock my door the second I get in my car and I don’t roll down my windows,” she said. “They are things that I do now to protect myself that I didn’t used to do.”
Man Guilty in Carjacking in Which Woman Died
August 15, 1993
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/15/us/man-guilty-in-carjacking-in-which-woman-died.html
TOWSON, Md., Aug. 14— A man was convicted of first-degree murder on Friday in a case that has prompted national concern over carjacking.
The man, 27-year-old Rodney Solomon, could receive a death sentence because of his conviction on the murder charge and six other counts stemming from the death of a 34-year-old woman who was dragged one and a half miles after she struggled to reach her baby in the back seat of her stolen BMW. Mr. Solomon’s accomplice, Bernard Miller, 17, was convicted in April of first-degree murder.
Several states, including Maryland, have passed tougher carjacking laws because of the attack, which drew national attention when it occurred on Sept. 8, 1992.
Judge Dana Levitz of Baltimore County Circuit Court scheduled the penalty phase of the trial for Tuesday. The defense elected to have the jurors, rather than Judge Levitz, decide whether to impose the death penalty on Mr. Solomon. Defendant Impassive
Mr. Solomon showed no emotion as he heard the jury’s verdict, which was reached in less than five hours.
The victim, Pam Basu, was forced from her car at a stop sign near her home in suburban Savage as she drove her 2-year-old daughter, Sarina, to her first day of preschool. Mrs. Basu tried to get her daughter out of the car, but the thieves sped away, dragging Mrs. Basu, whose arm was caught in her seat belt. The child was later dropped by the roadside unharmed.
Mrs. Basu’s husband, Biswanath Basu, had videotaped his wife, a research chemist, and his daughter before they left that morning. The prosecution said Mr. Solomon and Mr. Miller could be seen in the background of the videotape as they roamed the neighborhood looking for a car to steal after the stolen car they were riding in ran out of gas.
Members of Mrs. Basu’s family, who wept during closing arguments, said through the prosecutor, Michael Rexroad, that they were “extremely pleased with the verdict.” Mr. Solomon’s lawyer, Samuel Truette, declined to comment on the case.
Much of the testimony centered around who was driving the car when it sped away. Mr. Miller told the police that Mr. Solomon had been driving but later changed his story. Younger Accomplice
Mr. Miller is serving a life sentence. He was shielded from the death penalty because he was 16 at the time of the crime.
“Rodney Eugene Solomon savagely, viciously attacked Pam Basu, beat her, ripped her from her car, threw her to the ground, and with knowledge that she was attached to the car, drove away,” Mr. Rexroad said in his closing argument.
The defense contended that Mr. Miller had been in the driver’s seat. Jurors heard taped statements in which Mr. Miller had given the police conflicting accounts of the theft. Mr. Rexroad suggested that Mr. Solomon had persuaded Mr. Miller to change his story while they were being held in the Howard County Detention Center.
But Mr. Truette called into question the testimony of prosecution witnesses who said they had seen Mr. Solomon driving, saying they testified about “what they would have liked to have seen.”
I see what you did there.
“I had to put on my brakes to avoid an accident,” said Keith McLamb of Fens Hollow Drive, who had been returning home on Gorman Road shortly after 8:30 a.m. when a car cut in front of him.
“The car pulled over onto the shoulder, dragging what appeared to be a dummy from the driver’s side,” he said. “There was activity inside the car like people having a domestic argument. It was surreal.”
He said the child “walked to the middle of the road as the car pulled off. I saw the woman moving as the car took off.
“It was the first time I knew she was a person and that she was alive. I could see her hands and shoulders. I assumed she was hanging on. A lady in the car behind me picked up the child. Another car made a U-turn and took off after them. I followed also, but they were gone.”
“It was a terrible thing. I’ll never forget it.”
Catherine Nehring was the woman who picked up the child, took her to her home and called police.
“She was crying a little, but not a lot,” said Mrs. Nehring, 32. “I think she was in shock and didn’t know what was going on.”
The child’s father came about 10:30 a.m. and “just broke down crying,” Ms. Nehring said. Paramedics also arrived to examine the child.
Ms. Nehring said she thought it was a dummy she had seen dangling from the car.
A half-mile up the road, Sandra Benz was at the corner of Falling Waters Court and Gorman Road with her 2-year-old son when she “saw that BMW dragging a body and thought, ‘This is an awfully expensive prank for teen-agers to be putting on.’
There may be a black panther/ nation of islam connection to this.
I’ve read two or three printed accounts, and watched about three on the tv ‘news’.
Just got mixed up.
Your version finally explains things clearly.
Thanks.
Obama got this in motion with “The police acted stupidly”
and letting off the new black panthers who threatened white voters at a Philly voting site in 2008.
What SCUM!!!!! 5kids NO DAD so typical!!!!!
Two of the brothers held in connection with the killing filmed the attack on a police station using their cellphones, according to law enforcement officials.
Michael Ford is only 22, but he recorded his last will and testament in a cellphone video and then headed to the Landover, Md., police station on a quiet Sunday afternoon to die, police said.
Ford fired randomly at an ambulance, other vehicles and the doors of the station, pinning down officers who poured from the station to confront him, police said. Two of his brothers stood nearby recording the ambush with cellphones as it unfolded moment by agonizing moment.
Amid that barrage, an off-duty detective, Jacai Colson, arrived to visit another officer. Colson sprang from an unmarked police car and “heroically” drew Ford’s fire as he exchanged shots with the gunman, the police chief said.
The move allowed officers to overcome Ford, but in a chaotic moment, a shot probably fired by one of Colson’s fellow officers struck him and ultimately took his life.
Colson, an undercover narcotics detective, was in street clothes. It is unclear whether the officer who shot Colson confused him with an assailant or whether Colson was wounded accidentally amid the chaotic gunfire, Prince George’s County Police Chief Henry Stawinski III said.
Police said on Monday that Colson was likely killed by friendly fire. Here’s what we know so far.
Stawinski expressed anger and incredulity Monday as he relayed the story of how the four-year police veteran lost his life and a man who intended to take his own life by drawing police fire had survived.
Colson’s parents stood at the chief’s news conference, arm-in-arm nearby, leaning on each other for support.
Prince George’s County police announced earlier Monday that they had in custody a third brother in connection with the shooting that left Officer Jacai Colson, 28, a four-year veteran, dead. Police said one of the suspects intended to die in the attack and recorded his last will and testament on video minutes before his brothers drove him to the police station, where Colson died in a shootout.
Police also said Monday evening that circumstantial evidence shows that the bullet that struck Colson during the gun battle likely was fired by another officer.
Police said the suspects are Michael DeAndre Ford, 22, of Landover, who police said initiated the gun battle, and his brothers, Malik Ford, 21, of Fort Washington, and Elijah Ford, 18, of Landover.
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. Sunday in what he described as an “unprovoked” and “callous” act. The brothers also shot.
Officers rushed out to stop the attack. Colson was killed in the gunfight, the chief said. Michael Ford was wounded and taken to a hospital where he is in stable condition, the chief said.
“This is about nothing, it was unprovoked,” Stawinski said during a press conference Monday at police headquarters. . Colson was in an unmarked car on his way to meet another officer and arrived amid an ongoing shooting, the chief said. An autopsy on Colson is not complete, the chief said.
Oh YEA but it is Trump who is dividing the country!!!!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
The term/phrase is see used is that certain folks are not “future oriented”, meaning they live for the day, literally, as they are unable mentally to make and adhere to long term plans.
I call them indolent dullards.
What kind of film do cell phones use? And do you have to take the back off the phone to load it with film?
What word would you use?
Recorded?
“Recorded” is good. Nobody would misunderstand it to mean audio-only nowadays.
I'm sure the officers have a different opinion on such restraint.
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